Will FF VII ReMake Energize Japan's Console Market?

[johnsobas]

BraLoD said:

Salnax said:
You overestimate the power of a remake in Japan.

FF7 was the third best-selling PS1 game in Japan, with 3.28 million sales. The top game on the PS1 was Dragon Quest 7, with 4.1 million sales.

Dragon Quest 7 was remade for the 3DS in 2013, a high point in the life of the market leader. It sold 1.24 million. The earlier Dragon Quest remakes on the DS (4, 5, and 6) likewise sold around 1.3 million each to the original games' 3 million or so each.

Pokemon's G1 and G2 remakes sold about 1/3 and 1/2 of the original games.

FF4 for the DS sold half as well as the SNES version.

Point is, it is not very reasonable to expect FF7 for the PS4 to sell over 1.6 million or so in Japan. This is not a bad number by any means, but that is still less than FF13 on the PS3 or Nintendo's nine biggest Wii games. None of those could keep consoles alive and healthy.

With the due respect, none of these remakes come even remotely close to be what FF7 seems like to.

The changes between what we had in the PS1 gane and now in the PS4 seems to be huge, actually I guess it's the first time we ever got a remake like this, we still only got a teaser and it was definitely CG, but it's a PS4 game and they should be "decently" close, if it uses FF15 quality likeness.

It'll be like another game entirely, it's coming to a platform 500x as strong as the later (8x leap each gen, so 8^3), it's going to be huge.

It won't sell better than the first, original, game, but it'll very likely be a hit and should be really meaningful to boost hardware sales.

You think they care about graphics that much?  Japan has really shown that they don't really care that much.  I would say the portability of the DQ remake is probably about just as important as the bigger graphic difference between the two.