Obliterator
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Game seems to be doing incredibly well outside of Japan. 8 million LT at least seems basically assured at this point
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NPD - FFXV experienced the best console launch month in franchise history
Fuck, Lightskintwin, please be gentle.
LelouchZero
Member
Awesome!
AlexFlame116
Member
Awesome. I'm super glad about this! Hopefully more support will be thrown at this game!
Oh you've GOT to be kidding me.....
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Irishonion
Member
Just a joke haha.
I'm glad it sold well. I love the world. Throw in a structured story and it would have been an even more amazing game. I guess that what happens with the crossover from versus to xv.
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JeremyEtcetera
Unconfirmed Member
No salt here. All the game needs is a director's cut and it's fine. The gameplay is great but the story has editing/pacing issues that weren't as apparent in other FF mainline games. Making your playerbase dependent on a movie and anime series-prequel isn't a good way to do storytelling and should be taken as a lesson for the future.
Haha. That would actually sell well. But change the song to The Boys are Back in Town. This isnt the UK!
just give up
Jaguar Victory
Member
Console wars in a FFXV thread. Mmmmkay.
Great work SQUENIX. Game was absolutely worth it. Next time though, a little faster release please.
This is... interesting. I assumed it was being left to bomb quietly on the Xbox One. Glad to see there is support for it there. Sounds like that's better than what XIII got. Hope that means good news for the series in the future (and Kingdom Hearts).
Its a different team, but I suspect any mainline FF game going forward will have a form of open world to it. Fans will come to expect it.
Oh God Why
Banned
Sweet! Can't wait to play Final Fantasy XVI on Luminous Engine 2 Unreal Engine 4!
Hell, I'd play it
Isn't XV the first mainline FF game to launch in North America at the same time as Japan? That might have something to do with it.
I think that's a matter of platform just as much as appeal of the game itself. The biggest thing holding back XV in Japan is probably the fact that it's a PS4 game and not a Vita game or mobile game. It's why DQXI is also coming out on 3DS. For a franchise as much about bleeding-edge production values as Final Fantasy has been since VII, that presents an almost existential problem.
This problem is part of the reason Nintendo made the Switch -- to try to have one platform and maybe in some cases one game that really does appeal to the west and Japan at the same time. I think in the end it's going to end up appealing more to Japan.
I think that's a matter of platform just as much as appeal of the game itself. The biggest thing holding back XV in Japan is probably the fact that it's a PS4 game and not a Vita game or mobile game. It's why DQXI is also coming out on 3DS. For a franchise as much about bleeding-edge production values as Final Fantasy has been since VII, that presents an almost existential problem.
This problem is part of the reason Nintendo made the Switch -- to try to have one platform and maybe in some cases one game that really does appeal to the west and Japan at the same time. I think in the end it's going to end up appealing more to Japan.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
FF 15 LTD sales are like 1/4 of series peak in Japan. There are less people that care about the franchise than ever before. Meanwhile, the US is seeing renewed interest.
That's pretty impressive. That's gotta be over million units right, second place in December?
KillerMan91
Member
In US it did record launch for the series. In Japan it had the lowest single-player FF debut since Final Fantasy Vs SNES release in 1992. It will also have the worst total sales in japan since Final Fantasy II (760,000 units).
The Emperor
Member
Honestly the biggest surprise is FFXV outselling Gears 4 on Xbox one for December
LOL just how?
LOL just how?
statham
Member
Excellent! I want FFVII square!
Based on the math given, it was over 1.5M retail.
Yabberwocky
Member
I'm not really sure what they could do with a FFXV-2. A prequel might make more sense. Hilariously, Noctis replacing Lightning's role in the hot mess god/goddess plots of XIII-2 and LR would actually link up better to FFXV's ending than Lightning's abrupt role did with FFXIII's ending.
Neither of those games are rpgs? And homefront was trash
I'm not trying to say XV is a bad game, just that this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone
People stopped really caring about Gears.
MegaSackman
Member
OP might want to add it did well on Xbox too according to this:
Oh great, then Shu wasn't lying when he said (I think it was him) The Last Guardian exceeded expectations. Really great news.
VendettaRed07
Member
Someone must have forgot to tell all those xbox owners they aren't supposed to care about Japanese games
Gears is selling shit.
The Emperor
Member
And the console market in US & Japan are comparable in popularity atm? They're not.
I get his point but the game is still a success in Japan for 2016.
Wouldn't be surprised if an FFXVI that stayed on console pulled an RE7, and went ahead and just hired American writers for the story.
FF16
To star the guy that looked kinda like an ff character from that one cod story gif
Seems to be in line with the overall software sales for consoles in Japan, nearly every series is down from previous entries on consoles, the only one up that comes to mind is Persona.
Not console wars this time, two individual comments. Though it is the wrong NPD thread by mistake.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Gears and Halo fading away means that MS will (eventually) have to put those teams on new IP, even if they're shooters. GAF should be happy.
gundamkyoukai
Member
The platform did not hold back FFXV in Japan .
FFXIII sold 900k more on a smaller PS3 user base .
Japan just don't like the game as much as the rest of the world .
Also mainline FF save from mobile for now .
I guess XBox gamers will buy big JRPG's.
KH3 might not bomb there
I suspect while the US platform split will make Xbox seem viable for JRPGs, when those numbers get added to the worldwide platform split, it'll definitely be under 20% Xbox sales.
The Emperor
Member
EWWW. Japan has so many good writers.
They should just hire the writer of Fate Zero/ Thunderbolt Fantasy
Boom done.