specialk on 12 January 2017
| Neodegenerate said: All but a handful of games (GTA, Pokemon, CoD?) need those discounts to hit that number. The difference here compared to standard AAA game sitautions is that Square might hit their 10 million number where other AAA games definitely won't. |
Point taken. But not every AAA game has the developer come out and say, "We need to sell 10M to break even." either.
If VGChartz numbers are to be believed, Final Fantasy 13 actually had a stronger first week if you account for the fact that the game didn't have a simultanious world-wide release like 15 did.
13 sold about 7.5M (again, if VGChartz numbers are right).
The rise of digital sales helps a bit, but I have a bad feeling about this.
