Famitsu sales: Week 24, 2021 - (June 7 - June 13)

[Otter]

Wyrdness said:

Otter said:

There's honestly no precedent with this kind of topic. franchise etc mean very little here. Typically what you would compare this to is a re-release that we've seen in past like with Monster Hunter etc. But they do not have free upgrades. Essentially there is no reason for a fan of the series to rebuy the game cos' their PS4 version automatically updates. All they need to do is buy the $10 DLC from the PSN store.

Re-releases typically depend on fans double dipping, free upgrades completely eliminate the need for that. 

Thing is the PS4 version in itself only moved about 1m retail in the region going by Famitsu's numbers so even with the free upgrade the game is already well below expectations before we consider if everyone upgraded especially as we had people expecting it to sell 10 to 15m in total.

Even the argument of double dipping here doesn't really offset the underwhelming performance as a game development tool basically outsold the much requested remake of a popular game. 

I'm only talking about the expectations for the ps5 re-release. Unless the game is being sold to a userbase who didnt have access to the PS4, the free upgrade should decimate sales expectations.  Why would PS5 users rebuy the game for full price? 

If the discussion is on the underperformance of the original FFVIIR release, we've known its sales for a while and the PS5 release wasn't going to alter this really