Final Fantasy XV 10 million unit goal isn’t about profit, but the team’s personal ambitions

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V-r0cK on 01 April 2016

This is what I've figured. Square is just looking to find their next big game that can overthrow FF7.

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Naum on 01 April 2016

I don't think they want us to know how much it must sell before turing into profit.

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kurasakiichimaruALT on 01 April 2016

Anyone who's logical knows that they don't need 10M copies to turn a profit. You can sell 10M and still not be able to profit if the game was sold at discount bin then those numbers are useless.

They need atleast 2-3M on launch meaning full price to turn a profit. Game may have been delayed for ten years but it's ultimately a single player game at heart and development was stopped midway or even earlier for other games like FFXIII series and FFXIV ARR especially the latter considering the disastrous launch so money didn't just go to waste, it was temporarily shifted to other projects.

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