Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - Dec 26th - Jan 1st 2017

[Boutros]

Acevil said:

Boutros said:

No differences for Square Enix as long as those copies are still selling at a high price. The few price cuts we've seen are coming from the retailers themselves and are mostly meant to compete with other retailers and not necessarily because they have too many copies. Square sold those copies to retailers at full price. As long as it's not overshipped, which could see retailers demanding a refund, it's fine.

Well if retailers have to discount, wouldn't they be less likely to order large amounts of the next title and onward. I don't know supply chain management in the Japan, I do know a bit in NA, and usually companies just don't order as much from the supplier, sometimes resulting in a shortage. 

Probably yeah but I don't know why retailers even ordered that many copies of FFXV to begin with. They knew of pre-orders numbers and should have gauged better. It would have been a fine shipment if digital sales (which I guess will be 70k-100k) weren't a thing but I guess retailers haven't started considering that impact.