They have announced they are doing shipments again ? Oh well so it was only 1 week of weak numbers then.

700K for FFVIIR is more than I thought it would sell and especially for the hardware. Hmm party is over for Switch it seems after weeks of huge highs. Shortages are just awful and it finally hit, post Animal Crossing.

Sorry, I should have said people who have played FF7 on PS1 but aren't playing the game now.

Yes! On 4/14 they announced that shipments of the console (including Lite) have resumed to Japan.

https://www.siliconera.com/nintendo-switch-shipments-to-japan-will-resume-this-week-amid-global-shortage/

It helps.

For anyone comparing this to FF15 physical copies, please remember it's no longer 2016 and digital attach rate is around 50% now. In some cases it's more.
Pretty good sales for PS4 and FF though.
It should have solid sales in the west as well. The digital attach rate should be really high since alot of physical copies were delayed in the West.

Easy now.

Final Fantasy XV on PS4 sold around 700k first week as well (Media Create: 690,471 / Famitsu: 716,649). Of course, popularity and sales of Final Fantasy peaked a long time ago. No doubt about that. But with better word of mouth FF7 Remake is still likely to outsell FFXV in Japan.

You also have to consider digital which is bigger now than in 2016.

Thanks guys! And damn the tweet just announcing a restock got 100k likes on Twitter that's insane... they dont even reach these numbers when they announce a direct over a Nintendo NA atleast. 

There was this https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/10/tech/nintendo-switch-shipment-pause-shortage/index.html

I'm, so sad for the switch. Hope it rebounds soon because this was supposed to be it's year where it just sells like hot cakes