Final Fantasy VII Remake shipped 5m by early August. Lifetime sales expectations (PS4 only)?

[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

PotentHerbs said:
Do Final Fantasy games traditionally have bad legs?

Otherwise, I see no reason why FF7R doesn't clear 10 Million+ lifetime on PS4.

Yes, FF is typically a very frontloaded series. Some examples:

• FF15- 5m in 24 hours, 6m in less than 2 months, 8.9m after 3 years. More than 50% of it's lifetime sales on day one.
• FF13- 1.7m in 2 weeks in Japan, 1m in 2 weeks in the US, 830k in 2 weeks in Europe, for a total of 3.5m in 2 weeks. Sales after 7 years were just over 7m. So about 50% of it's lifetime sales were in the first 2 weeks.
• FF12- 1.7m in 1 week in Japan, 1.5m in 1 week in the US, can't find EU sales data for it. 6m+ worldwide sales after 3 years. Nearly half of it's lifetime sales were in the first week from US and Japan alone, with EU 1st week sales factored in likely around 60% of it's lifetime sales were in the 1st week.

Compare that to FF7R. It sold 3.5m in 24 hours and 5m after 4 months. Based on the early sales/lifetime sales ratio for earlier FF releases, that suggests that lifetime sales for the PS4 version will be around 7m max, unless of course Square Enix decides to do a free PS5 upgrade for the PS4 version, instead of releasing a paid PS5 port next year, which would extend the PS4 versions legs considerably. But Square stands to make alot more money by doing a paid PS5 port than they do by doing a free upgrade for the PS4 version.

So you made an extrapolation on the rest having 2 weeks to reach about 50% sales to 7R being 24h? the 4months would be more likely to use for upper limit of 10M. So my clearing 8M is probably more likely than your around 7M.