TRUE ORDER
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Wow
That's a lot, didn't expect that number. Congrats!
That's a lot, didn't expect that number. Congrats!
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Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age shipments and digital sales top two million
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ThatStupidLion
Member
Wow big numbers - expecting this to lead SE to even more remasters/remakes
GARlockSpiral
Member
Terrible. Its a shame to see the worst game this year sell so much. 
Oh well hopefully the money can fund an actual game.
Oh well hopefully the money can fund an actual game.
AyraSutoraifu
Member
Terrible. Its a shame to see the worst game this year sell so much.
Oh well hopefully the money can fund an actual game.
What are you talking about?
RPGCrazied
Member
Great. We going to get a XII-2 now?
Just joking, but its one of my top 3 FF games.
Just joking, but its one of my top 3 FF games.
GARlockSpiral
Member
FFXII is, to me, one of the worst games to exist. It would have been the worst game in 2006 but Sonic 06 won that award. However this year has the same game but polished with no increase on quality and no terrible sonic game.
DalikSkywing
Member
You didn't even bother to check on the newly added stuff but you still shitting on the game.
Astral Dog
Member
Well thats bad 😔To be honest, I'm fine with FFXVI set in an Ivalice world.
Error in Gematsu's part. It should be one million. Sorry just copy-pasta'd the title.
PhantomZhu
Banned
Mind elaborating? Because to me, XIII is one the worst game to ever exist, and not this game lol
AyraSutoraifu
Member
I liked XIII Had a lot of issue's but i liked it nonetheless. XV, yeah, still mad about that.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
This could be also why S-E seems really happy with the number...
What I mean is, just 1 million is still pretty good number for a HD port, but I'm guessing the reason why they're esctactic about is because they have a better idea of what 1 million sales in revenue means, relative to how much the port cost.
Obviously they could have done more to improve the port, but they probably also were uncertain of how it would sell and wanted to keep expenses as low as possible. So maybe the excitement is less about the revenue, and it's more about the profit margin they made on it.
Which hopefully bodes well for a few things: maybe they'll see the demand for XII and feel safer investing more in another high demand [re-release.. whether port or remake] like VII; see more demand for other re-releases or re-makes a la VIII or perhaps HD FF Tactics; safer in investing in new Ivalice Alliance games in general.
Most important point being is that the actual sales don't matter per se but that Square Enix was impressed and excited about its success. Tomb Raider, Hitman, and Sleeping Dogs all sold millions and were disappointments (apples to oranges, I know... but ultimately, if you sell fruit, you just want profits).
So whether FF XII TZA sold 0.5, 1, or 2 million, the real great news is that it sold far above its costs. So hopefully that means more 'Ivalice' and it shows them we don't need every great RPG to be AAA budgets. FFT originally wasn't one anyhow. Give a team a smaller budget to keep the revenue requirements more practical, and make more FF XII or FFT style games, and maybe they'll be rewarded in the same way.
...what did you expect?
Also, taking into consideration the hardware this originally ran on, those are incredible textures and geometry .
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Great news. It was a fantastic remaster and it always felt like FFXII never got it's dues.