And FF15 is a much meatier game that will get even more content via DLC so it should see nice sales even into the following year. FF13 was heavily front loaded due to word of mouth being negative. 15 could be looking at a whole different trajectory.
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Square Enix: FFXV shipments + digital sales top 5 million worldwide
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And FF15 is a much meatier game that will get even more content via DLC so it should see nice sales even into the following year. FF13 was heavily front loaded due to word of mouth being negative. 15 could be looking at a whole different trajectory.
How is it interesting when we already know that sales will be drastically down compared to FFXIII? Whether it'll have sold 500k or a million in its first week, it paints a bleak picture regardless.
Whether or not it's selling well in the US and Europe is the more interesting question.
It's probably going to be frontloaded still, but December will help to sell through that first shipment.
I'm interested in how many PS4s it pushed.
HerroRygar
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I wonder how much Versus XIII development actually cost. How big was Nomura's team during that time? It feels like it should have been super expensive, but maybe not. Also if Square are able to produce relatively low-cost and high quality DLC (costumes, the stuff in the season pass) I could see good sales there from diehards. Add the inevitable PC port and I think there's a possibility that costs could be recovered, provided this game sells well.
I doubt it will be much. 100k, maybe ?
Yes, original run.
Thanks. FFX had amazing legs. The last figure I saw before the combined 14M one for it and X-2 was 6.6M in March 2003.
DarkLordMalik
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Type-0 sucked hard though, and it was an expensive PSP remaster
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Because they hate certain games succeeding. This same anger will happen to The Last Guardian too.
Lights and Waves
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Slay mama! I love the game so far!
Omnistalgic
Member
Good start, I decided to pick up TLG brand new, and wait on FF15 maybe for a better Pro patch, so hopefully I'll find it in January or something for $35 brand new.
Wish the game all the success, glad we have a new good FF game again, it's been too long.
Wish the game all the success, glad we have a new good FF game again, it's been too long.
PandaShake
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Two out of that 5 mil is mine. Preordered normal and deluxe from Amazon without knowing.
Quoting this again. The numbers I can find for the SFC versions of Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI in Japan are 1.44M and 2.55M
Assuming those are ballpark accurate, Final Fantasy IV sold around 330k outside of Japan, and Final Fantasy VI sold 350k outside of Japan.
Final Fantasy VII was closer to 6M outside of Japan (IIRC, it sold about 4M in Japan when you threw in all the budget versions and the international edition).
Biggest turnaround in the west of all time?
That doesn't mean they overshipped the gamr though. Only that the game had poor legs.
Probably yeah, I can't think of any biggest turnaround than Final Fantasy VII. I doubt any japanese game, barring the Nintendo ones, will reach such numbers in the future.
Still, they ended overshipping the game, as many copies were left on the shelves and nobody bought them.
Alex_Mexico
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If those predictions that XV will sell in Japan half of what XIII did then this game might be the first mainline FF that sells more outside of Japan isn't it?
Good Lord that's a huge jump
Harmondale
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Interesting, happy to see ffx as second highest
5m at launch.. very similar to Another AAA title with long development time, mgsV If I remember coorrectly
Edit - noted mgsv was just 3 million during first 5 days
Interesting, happy to see ffx as second highest
5m at launch.. very similar to Another AAA title with long development time, mgsV If I remember coorrectly
MGSV was 3M at launch. 5M was first month sales.
FFVII sold more outside of Japan.
Pretty much all of the Final Fantasy games have sold more outside of Japan since Final Fantasy VII.
FFIX was the only mainline title that was sitting at around 50/50.
EDIT: Not counting Lightning Returns. No idea where that ended up.
Ha ha ha ha, oh yes it can.
DriftingSpirit
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Pretty much. It never ceases to amaze me.
I think I will get this early next year.
ethomaz
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Can anybody confirm if FFXIII did ~290k at launch in UK??? If that is true then I believe FFXV will sell less in UK... ~150k.
Edit - I just read it selling in line with Skyrim remaster... 150k is my new estimate close to half of FFXIII.
Edit - Looks like the 290k is false and it is likely ~200k.
Edit - I just read it selling in line with Skyrim remaster... 150k is my new estimate close to half of FFXIII.
Edit - Looks like the 290k is false and it is likely ~200k.
AHA-Lambda
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Bruce Springsteen
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With all the insane marketing I'm glad to hear this, plan in picking this game up next year on the cheap
HarryKS
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The trailers certainly helped.
They're exceptional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bxn9ghud00
Not to forget Omen.
They're exceptional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bxn9ghud00
Not to forget Omen.
MatrixMan.EXE
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1m in its first week is 'drastically down' compared to FFXIII? lol
ethomaz
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33% down, no?
Source?
In Square Enix own words (in 2013 after years of overshipping):
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/20130527_01en.pdf
jimmypython
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good.
this is what the company wants the most.
this is what the company wants the most.
Thanks.
The Emperor
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wow only 150K in UK compared to 290K for XIII would be a massive fall.
There was noticeably less hype though to be fair.
There was noticeably less hype though to be fair.
Anecdotes from UK retailers doesn't mean it sold the same as Skyrim. There will be some variation between chains, as well as some general rounding of numbers. 200k would still fit the "in line with Skyrim" from an individual retailer prospective. So would 100k. We'll have to wait and see.
ethomaz
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I was told that real sales in UK was around 200k for FFXIII.
Feel the Swift
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Solid. I'll definitely be picking it up, and I've never bought an FF game before (only played used).
I guess that makes more sense. FFXV could end up close, not counting digital which I don't think existed for FFXIII.
Honestly, matching or coming close to FFXIII's US launch would be a good start for XV as well. 1.3M first month is a lot less common now than it was in the middle of last gen.