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

[Wyrdness]

Otter said:

Wyrdness said:

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 

You ignored the point the PS4 version itself well underperformed so if your argument is on people double dipping that further backs his stance. It would be understandable if the PS4 version sold like prior games in the region of 2 to 3m but it didn't even do that which is why the PS5 version was expected to perform better than what we see here.

Edit: Even if we look at the angle of the game being on PS4 look at the games ported from 3ds/WiiU to Switch they are performing in a comparable manner to the prior versions sometimes better. 

Last edited by Wyrdness - on 17 June 2021