Why are people listing PS4K separately. Having not gone through the PS4K thread I assumed newer PS4 games would work on PS4 and PS4K. Just like playing a game on a high end pc and a lower spec'ed pc, you don't need to buy the game twice. It's just game settings.
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Final Fantasy XV needs to sell 10 million units to succeed in team's goal
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Napalm_Frank
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Good luck with that 
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
The Witcher 3 is overrated trash though. Notice how nobody talks about it anymore now that the hype is gone? Just like what happened with Dragon Age: Inquisition and Bioshock Infinite kii. XV already has a lot more hype than W3 ever had, and we're still half a year away.
XV will undoubtedly double W3's numbers, mark my words.
That's surprising, I'm guessing they had a large period where the game was basically cancelled, and where able to reuse a lot of stuff. A 100m for a 10 year AAA projects seems kinda "low", especially one on this scale. Though saying that, it doesn't include marketing, so not that crazy I guess, that's probably 50m-100m on top.
Obliterator
Member
I mean I hope this is a joke because the amount of stuff wrong with this post is astronomical
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
This reminds me of the Tomb Raider 2013 expectations. However, that game has now sold over 8.5 million copies.
I definitely think FFXV can pull 10M+ off, and I hope it can. This game is being promoted like an event.
I definitely think FFXV can pull 10M+ off, and I hope it can. This game is being promoted like an event.
afternoon delight
Member
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I guess this is Square Enix's final fantasy.
SkylineRKR
Member
I feel this game is off putting to many players that aren't really into JRPG, it has the typical Japanese style going against it which worked during the PS2 era but not anymore. If the reviews aren't going to be stellar either, and I doubt we're looking at a 90% game here, then I don't see this thing hit 10 million which is pretty much GTA and CoD territory and FF just isn't going to reach those numbers in this age.
Whompa02
Member
I doubt the average would go that low tbh. The game is still in active development.
10 million copies sold though seems like a stretch...even though they definitely sold over 60k last night...
Fitting.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
Well Tabata didn't say 10 millions to break even btw. He said 10 millions to be considered a success. And when you're trying to sell a big AAA RPG I guess that's the minimum expected for today standards. I'm pretty sure they'll break even with way less than that, and over 2 years with budget releases, STEAM and Digital might very well reach 8-10 millions copies sold IF the game is indeed decent or very good.
So in the event this isn't a joke post, you're okay with my writing down your sales expectations for Final Fantasy XV as 20 million copies?
Literally none of this is true. I was going to type a longer response but really, I don't even know where to get a foothold on this.
Even if it's just from the beginning of the game to Guard Scorpion, I would be all about a FF7R demo with FFXV.
Doesn't that include the numbers of the Remaster? I'm not sure whether we're expecting there to be one of those for FF XV.
charlequin
Banned
What makes you think this? Out of the entire franchise, looking at all the titles that came out back when this was a wildly successful brand instead of an aging one that's seen a bit of a decline, the only one that's cleared this value is FF7. (It's possible that FFX has now if we count in the remaster, but a. that sort of remaster wouldn't count in SE's calculation here anyway and b. that's speculative since public numbers available still add up to less than 10m.)
FF Seraphim
Member
Hmm I can see it doing that of it is indeed released on PS4/XB1 & PC. Big enough market for the game on all three platforms.
JuanLatino
Member
believe. i don't see why they shouldn't bring the game to the nx, while it releases on every other plattform.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
i'll believe it when i see it.
Icyflamez96
Member
They'll make it.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
So outsell the best selling FF, FFVII, of all time which was the height of FF popularity, hmmm, the multiplatform release will help I guess.
No, that is not going to happen when the aesthetic alone is incredible out of touch and divisive among long time fans.
What is the point to invest such an obscene amount of money to just break even?
Huge Succeeded
Banned
ugh i cant stand any degree of flamboyancy in my manly ass games. I wish things would go back to the way they were in the old Final Fantasy games, when it was about killing shit with swords and being manly! I mean check this shit out
so fucking manly
Leafhopper
Banned
That would help but I dunno.
Few people stop to consider there was probably a long period of time where they weren't working on this at all, let alone being in constant dev for a decade. I never got the impression it had much more staff than the core members that would be credited in trailers.
You're talking about a looooot of $5 Steam sales after that first 5m though, I think. Definitely not what they want here.
Final Fantasy XV will be ported to refrigerators once they're powerful enough to run it. I fully expect Square Enix to milk XV in ways that would even make ATLUS uncomfortable.
No, that is not going to happen when the aesthetic alone is incredible out of touch and divisive among long time fans.
What is the point to invest such an obscene amount of money to just break even?
Amazing gif.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Well they sold 30k last night, right? Only 9,970,000 left to go.
lol. Was about to say this.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
It'll sell as much through various Steam promotions if indeed launched on the PC platform.
Final Fantasy usually sells a third of its life-time sales in Japan if one looks at previous data - that won't occur in this current landscape; it'll have to make up for it Overseas just like Pokémon has.
If there is no PC release, a healthy 7-8 million is where I see it stand.
Final Fantasy usually sells a third of its life-time sales in Japan if one looks at previous data - that won't occur in this current landscape; it'll have to make up for it Overseas just like Pokémon has.
If there is no PC release, a healthy 7-8 million is where I see it stand.
Don't you know they make more off of a $5 Steam code than a $60 console game?
/s
I really don't think they'll make it until a few years after launch, including PC and/or PS4K with some sales. As long as they don't have a time frame for that 10mil they'll be fine.
Easy, they'll continue to develop FF16 as another bloated, bigger, louder, faster, flashier, more expensive production that takes years and years to make, then glue it all together and hope no one notices how hollow it is underneath all those graphix. I don't think Square has stopped this philosophy since FF7 enabled them to buy a bigger office. At least not with their star franchise. Sometimes its worked, other times its been a failure, but overall they have never "gone back to basics" or tried to rediscover or recapture what's made FF such a success in the first place, and why we (likely all old-school 90s gamers) loved it and continue to be interested on name alone. They keep upping the ante, which is the philosophy of all mainstream AAA creations because the public can't imagine anything else. That bubble will eventually burst, but not before its milked dry.
I say this while being cautiously optimistic for FF15.
And_Gignac
Member
This is true too. AAA, well received games tend to do way better now than they used to in the PS2-early PS3 days. So there's that.
