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Hynad on 08 December 2016
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Alkibiádēs said:
Hynad said:

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 regions, Final Fantasy XV has some of the most impressive day one sales figures the industry at large has ever seen!


Of course, Soundwave. Everything is doom and gloom for Final Fantasy in Japan, and Square-Enix needs 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).

 

 

 

You might want to actually read the article, here I bolded it for you. It's the first FF with a simultaneous worldwide launch, of course it was going to be the "best" launch-day in the history of FF. That means nothing. Pokémon Sun and Moon are the fastest selling Pokémon games to date, but that doesn't mean they're all of a sudden going to outsell Pokémon Red and Blue. You're just spinning the narrative in your favour. Also that 5 million figure is SHIPPED, not SOLD. Shipped means nothing if loads of copies remain on the shelves.

This is the first main-line entry into the FF franchise since 2009 and it saw a huge decline in Japan, it's home country. That is a worrying sign. Over 7 years in development for this? It's bad. A large chunk of sales from each FF entry has always come from Japan. Don't overestimate the franchise's importance in the West. It needs both Japan and the West to survive.

Monster Hunter, Yokai Watch and Pokémon are all far better off than Final Fantasy is. They don't have to struggle with overly long development cycles or ridiculously high development budgets. Since 2013 the Yokai Watch franchise has managed to sell over 12 million copies, with most of those sales coming from Japan only. And we're not even taking into account all the profit they made from selling merchandise and toys (where FF is not nearly as succesful in). Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate saw the highest sales in the West in the franchise's history, so it's not like chosing Nintendo means giving up the West like some people make it out to be on here.

You talk about spin? Japan has been known to be migrating its gaming habit to portable devices. All the titles you mentioned are in accordance to that.

Final Fantasy XV is breaking records for digital download in Japan. So see whatever you want in that. The official statement by Square-Enix is that it is the fastest selling title in the franchise so far, aligned or not.

If anything, Final Fantasy XV's performance in Japan so far should be commended considering it's doing this well and breaking that record despite the huge damage the Final Fantasy XIII games have done to the brand.