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JWeinCom said:
It was never going to be that close, especially in Japan. Trying to predict sales based on the original which launched over two decades ago doesn't work. Much different market these days. In particular the Final Fantasy franchise is not nearly as big as it used to be, while the PS4's market is significantly smaller than PS1's.
Meanwhile, Switch games have generally been selling much higher than than games launched on the 3DS, and New Leaf's official numbers I think are about 12 million from Nintendo... and it's still actually selling a bit. 5.75 million of those are in Japan, so even if New Horizons just held that number and didn't beat New Leaf it would comfortably beat FFVII.
Ten million was basically the maximum for FFVII and the minimum for Animal Crossing. JRPG is just a far smaller market.
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10 million is not the maximum for FF7. Its did 3.5 million in 3 days, outpacing or being close to Spiderman and God of War.
FF7 would be at 10 million+ on PS4 alone within a year. Let alone PS5/PC/XBX. FF7R has the potential to do 15 million - 20 million.
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Already been through this. Those games got a boost of several million from being bundled that FF7 is not likely to get. Not an apt comparison. It would need a significantly higher baseline to compete with those games. Considering Spiderman's week 2 in Japan was higher than FF7 is not a good look shortages or no.
