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konnichiwa on 20 September 2024
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shikamaru317 said:
konnichiwa said:

Ideally yeah but don't know if it would made more money if it was multiplatform, FFXVI numbers aren't that great on steam (yet maybe) and exclusivity can sell a game aswell..

I also find it kind of Ironic to read about building a fanbase in the XBOX thread, if their is something that Xbox isn't doing then it is building a fanbase...

I think the late release hurt both FF7R and FF16 on Steam personally. FF7R came a year and a half late at a price of $70, Steam gamers saw that price and said heck no. Even now, 2.25 years after it released on Steam for $70, FF7R has yet to drop lower than $35 in any Steam sale. As a result, FF7R has sold less than 1m copies on Steam according to Steam Spy and another 3rd party Steam sales estimator. 

Square did at least learn their lesson on pricing, as FF16 came in at $50, $20 less than FF7R, and so far peak concurrent players are nearly double FF7R (and it's not the weekend yet where the true peak on FF16 may be). But even with the lower price I think the 1 year late release hurt sales for FF16 on Steam most likely, compared to what it would have sold Summer 2023 when hype was high. 

In the end though, I think Square needs to get their budgets under control, it was reported that FF7R Part 1 had a budget of $140m, with FF7R Part 2 and FF16 both likely exceeding that figure. Clearly they need to find ways to cut the budget on their games, considering that FF7R and FF16 both sold over 3m first week at full price (with FF7R currently tracking toward 10m lifetime considering the 7m figure they gave in 2023, and the fact that both an Xbox and Switch 2 release for the game are still to come most likely), and still Square finds the sales of these games disappointing. Clearly they want Final Fantasy to have sales like Skyrim and Witcher or something, and I'm just not sure the series could ever have the mainsteam appeal needed to reach those numbers.

Thanks for the serious response, 

I can not really say much about FFR but I may about FFXVI...

-FFXVI did open with 3 million first week, when it was announced people in general said 'those are great sales' untill SE said 'Below expectations' and people jumped on it 'We told you so, it is dumb to not release on all platforms same day, so many sales lost!!'  

I don't agree with it, their is no proof obviously,  but exclusivity may boost a game sales and during that I made pics in stores for this thread and FFXVI was heavily bundled those bundles also account for sales.

I had no expectations for the sales on steam but I can't really call them great, seems rather meh and using the defense 'but it is an old port' while Palworld if it releases on PS may sell again extremely well(well can go both ways).