JRPGfan said:
IcaroRibeiro said:
This is the correct answer. FF didn't use to sell because it was turn based, this is nonsense. Turn based JRPGs always sold poorly. In reality Final Fantasy was a game that was always sold to non-JRPG fans as well, so being turn based or not was never the point Final Fantasy were among the best selling game because they were technical showcases of hardware capabilities and overall among the best games of their generations.  This is just not the case anymore. Nobody looks at Final Fantasy and think "This is the current pinnacle of gaming", there are other IPs that steal this spot now If FF go turn based again it will sell at best in ~5 million range, because this is how much a turn based JRPG sells. Persona 5 needed a re-release and be multi platform including Switch and PC to get over 5 million (the 7.2 million figure includes Strikers sales) And goes without saying Persona 5 is by far the best received JRPG last generation That's said there is an audience for turn based Final Fantasy. Maybe Square should release turn based spin offs, that way they could satisfy the older fandom |
Persona 5 games went over 10m copies sold back in 2023, around September.
(yes, ~2,5m of that was probably Strikers, a fighting spin off....)
However a year lateron? I think its safe to assume, that Persona 5 (with its re-release) went over 10m.
You can make a Turn based game sell well.
Hell Pokemon is turn based, right? that thing sells like crazy. |
The figure included Tactica and Dancing as well. And Atlus are masters at selling the same game over and over again. Base game on PS3 and PS4 (no crossbuy), P5R PS4 (no upgrade path), P5R PS5 (no upgrade path). They're the slimiest mfs in the business and I'm happy to skip Metaphor this time for the eventual ultimate version.
Pokemon is a cultural phenomenon and an outlier. But I would love to see SquareEnix try classic ATB/turnbased again on a spinoff that takes itself more seriously than World of FF.
