FFXV's Sales In Japan: It Is Time For Japanese Devs To Support Switch?

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Soundwave said:

Jpcc86 said:
It doesnt matter if it bombs in Japan as long as it sells well worldwide. This is the most westernized FF we've had ever, so I think Japan isnt the parameter for which to measure its commercial success as it is trying to appeal to another audience.

Until we get full sales numbers, everything is mere speculation. All we know so far is that it is the fastest selling FF.

Sales are lower than FFXIII in UK. Square-Enix I think massively overshipped this game. 

It would be "fastest selling" perhaps only because it's the first FF game to launch simultaneously worldwide, but that is a cherry picked metric. I don't think in the long term it's going to be a huge hit in West either, probably sales below FF13 over here when it's all said and done too. 

Of course it's going to sell worse than FFXIII at launch. When XIII launched, it was one two massively successful consoles, and it was a franchise that had never put a foot wrong. It sold insanely well every time based on that trust. Then, XIII was a huge mistake, and they followed it up with two sequels that weren't any better and that nobody wanted. They spent a decade ruining the franchise's reputation, so Final Fantasy XV doesn't have that same advantage, people are going to wait and see how it turns out first. It's started off great, and will only do better over time as word of mouth gets around and those burned by XIII realise its not a total bomb like those three games were.