| Soundwave said: Disastrous sales for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Square-Enix killed what was once one of the top franchises in Japan because of their love affair for Playstation, bravo. When it released FF7 was one of the best selling games in Japanese game history and it widely considered one of the greatest Japanese games ever made. This is an embarrassment for a high budget remake. |
In the 90's Playstation was the right choice, they should have went to Switch instead or just bank on the West. PS5 software is pretty much dead in Japan. Not just FF, but also games that once catered to the Japanese audience like Persona, Infinite Wealth, Granblue, Tekken and Resident Evil just sell terrible on PS5. Basically if a game is on a non portable platform don't expect sales to lift off.
FF are the best selling titles on PS5 and even the numbers of these titles are terrible. Luckily it seems to be doing well in UK and Spain. The west is carrying this franchise and all JRPG's not on Switch and I expect the situation to only worsen. If you want your game to sell well in Japan go for a Switch launch or maybe be Monster hunter, though I expect that game to terrible compared to World as well on PS5.
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