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According to the company’s latest report, the figure is a culmination of both its digital and physical sales. This officially makes Final Fantasy XV the fastest-selling title in the Final Fantasy franchise. The game has also broken the record for the highest recorded first-day digital copies sold in Japan

http://www.novacrystallis.com/2016/12/final-fantasy-xv-shipments-top-5-million-worldwide-fastest-selling-title-series/

 

[The] game is the first in the series’ history to have a simultaneous global launch. Having surpassed five million sales across the world already, the game also broke the record for most downloads of a game on day of release in Japan. In the Asian region that excludes Japan it also broke the record for total game sales on day one, including packaged version units shipped and digital downloads.

Not only is this a record-breaker for these regionsFinal Fantasy XV has some of the most impressive day one sales figures the industry at large has ever seen.

 

Of course, Soundwave. As we can all see in this here gray box I posted, everything points towards the series being in an unprecedented state of doom and gloom in Japan. So it goes without saying that the only possible logical reasoning Square-Enix should have in their mind right now is that they need to be saved by none other than Nintendo. The same Nintendo that has been struggling to remain relevent in the home console market for the last 5 years... 
What sound arguments you make (sarcasm and pun intended).