| Sogreblute said: No matter how much someone sugar coats it, those FF7 Rebirth sales are terrible. Even counting digital it's still way down compared to the 1st game, and still down from FF16. PS5 sales didn't even get a big boost. This is Final Fantasy we're talking about. This series used to sell as much as Dragon Quest and Pokemon, now it's selling closer to what a Like a Dragon and Persona sells. Some people think this game will have legs are lying to themselves. FF7 Remake shipped 3.5 million in 3 days then that number grew to 5 million (April - August 2020), and we know it shipped an additional 2 million in 3 years (August 2020 - Sept 2023) to 7 million where during that time it released on PS5 and PC. |
Everything you said is also true for Resident Evil (from 2m+ in Japan alone with 2 to a 145k launch week with Resi 4 on the GC and nowadays it keeps selling just as badly there, with even RE2 remake having a sub 250k launch week) but I don't see people dooming or ranting around about it.
Why would SE see this as terrible compared to DQ when FF still outsells every DQ worldwide (which at best manages to sell 1 million outside of Japan when they're lucky).
| Ashadelo said: I think the main reason FF sales have continued to decline over the years is because the quality of the games now verses before is just not the same people know that. And all the younger people just see an average JRPG that doesn't standout from all the games that are constantly being released. |
Also this. Does anyone think in a universe where FF13 and FFD15 were actually great games (say, 10+ points on Meta) at least the latter wouldn't have sold at least as third as well as The Witcher 3?
