Final Fantasy VII Remake Ships 7 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 September 2023 / 8,446 Views
Square Enix announced Final Fantasy VII Remake has shipped over seven million units. The figure includes digital sales.
Final Fantasy VII Remake released for the PlayStation 4 in April 2020, while Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade released for the PlayStation 5 in June 021 and for PC in December 2021.
Seven's the magic number.
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Honestly suprised and not suprised it only hit 7 mil. Suprised because this felt like the most anticipated game ever at times, and not surprised because realistically speaking, final fantasy doesn't sell THAT well in general. Tho thinking about it, it might just be that Final Fantasy VII fans are really ̶l̶o̶u̶d̶ passionate.
I mean, as a core fanbase (at the time) when they first announced it I was excited but over time as they kept talking, like splitting the game up, changing gameplay or lack of characters, it turned me off. In the end I played it thanks to PS+ and while it was a good game, just wasn't the same as FF7. I've played FF7 since, amazing as ever.
I said round then that how much of a success it would be how well the sequel sells compared to the first in this series. I think the sequel will do amazingly well, it looks very indepth but will it hit even 7 million? Maybe, as if it never appears on services like FF7R did with PS+ it might have better legs.
Well, if you compare it to the "passion" Shenmue fans showed, it did rather well. 😉
I didn't buy the game since I was waiting for the trilogy to be completed. Thought it would be over in about 3 to 4 years. Now it took them almost 4 years to only release the 2nd part. No way I will play the series if the gaps are that large!
The reports of people who played it stating that Square is messing with the story further dampened my interest.
That's an extra 2 million in just over 3 years (and during that time a PC & PS5 release).
That's good. With the Rebirth + Remake package at 69.99, it will easily go at 9M.
A Switch 2 port will take it to 10 million.
Seems like it has had barely any legs. In August 2020 they said it was at 5m, that was 3 years ago. That means that in the last 3 years it has only sold 2m copies, and during those 3 years, it released on two new platforms, PS5 and PC. Hopefully a late port to Xbox Series soon and eventually Switch 2 whenever Switch 2 lands can give it a nice sales bump, because honestly the game is deserving of more sales, it's a very good game.
Being put on PS plus extra may have impacted the sales , that's how I got it, btw do you know if PS plus FFVII remake downloads are included as digital sales.
No
thanks
I'm curious of how much extra will cost to buy the pack of rebirth and 7R
Switch could give it a bump, Xbox? No way.
Come now, we all know that FFXV sold somewhere between 1.5-2m on Xbox One, you really think that an Xbox port, even a 3 year late one, wouldn't add at least 750k? Only thing that could make it do less would be: a. Square releasing a late port of it at full price $60-70 just like they did on PC, or b. Xbox paying to make the late port Day One Gamepass ( which though it would hurt sales on Xbox, would give Square a much needed cash infusion, considering their current financial woes, what with them losing 30% of their stock value since FF16 released and all).
If you put it on gamepass then I expect the sells to be very low since they are being offered it free of additional charge.
If they don't put it on game pass I'm curious how many people will choose to wait for it to be on game pass.
Definitely agree that day one Gamepass on it would hurt sales (though a decent number of people do use their Gamepass discount to buy a copy before a game is removed from Gamepass). But Square would get some much needed cash for the day one deal if that were to happen, so I don't think they would mind the lesser sales much.
If it is ported and isn't day one Gamepass, there would definitely be some hesitant waiters, people waiting for an eventual Gamepass addition, though smart pricing on the late port would definitely help to avoid hesitancy. You can't port a late game at full price and expect good sales, Square did that when they ported FF7R to PC at $70 and the sales suffered big time on PC as a result. If they were to port it to Xbox and sell it for like $30 or even $40 I think it would sell pretty well. I think timing is important to, if they release the late port of the first game on Xbox close to when the sequel is releasing on PS5, there will be some people on Xbox who buy it out of platform jealousy for PS5 people getting to play the sequel.
The other good option to cut down on Xbox hesitancy would be to wait until the 3 month timed exclusivity deal on the 2nd game ends in May 2024, and then release both the first game and the 2nd game as a collection on Xbox for a good price. maybe the same $70 as the collection of both games is on PS5, 2 games for $70 equals $35 for each.
Btw that collection is only $70 if you preorder it.
Not sure if it would push 750k since we have seem customer behavior of holding to see the game on GP, but yes I wouldn't say 750k is impossible Lifetime. I know you are not claiming this next point but since I have seem it talked a lot, it wouldn't change much the profitability of FF16 if they had made it launch on Xbox because we can be sure that Sony paid (or covered cost) in excess of what SE projected to profit from Xbox release.
Xbox one version of XV definitely done less then 2m.
VIIR would probably do 1m on Xbox
The sales are solid but not extraordinary... not yet. We don't have a sales breakdown. I suspect it has sold over 1 million in Japan. The bulk of the sales have come from Europe and North America. I think its probably done about 3.5 mil in North America and about 2.5 mil in Europe. That would be very impressive for a Final Fantasy.
There is a lot of potential here to keep going. 1 mil more in Europe and 1 mil more in North America will get to 9 mil. I think when Rebirth hits there will be a chance to get Remake those sales.
Japan numbers will be closer to 1.5-2 million considering it did 1 million in its first week
Deserved more. One of the best games of last gen.
If you add in people who redeemed it in PS Plus Essential and Extra, it would probably put those figures around 13-14 million.
But I get why they don't include that.
it was given away on ps plus month or so before it released on PS5
I think splitting the game into three parts hurt the sales numbers and then again it was release during the pandemic era and they were some harsh times indeed...
Rebirth might sky rocket now that the world has somewhat "recovered"
I'm still confused by this remake. Did they split the game up into thirds or something - I see a third "FFVII remake" coming in the winter. Never understood whats going on with that. How many FFVII remakes are actually coming out lol? I mean it looks cool in the videos seeing the game with modern graphics and all, but I'm happy having the original ported on Switch where its just a single game haha. Like, how many hundreds of dollars do you have to spend just to buy the whole game as a remake?!
I think we never got a formal confirmation, but it is estimated to be 3 parts.
Yes, they split the game into 3 parts and then expanded on each section of the game with new side quests and even some new main story additions. The first remake covered the first 6 chapters of the original, the Midgard section of the game, though they expanded it from 6 chapters to 18 chapters with lots of new content. 2nd game starts with Kalm and will presumably end in City of the Ancients. 3rd remake game will cover the rest of the original.
gotcha
Yea the story is also different it's not a 1:1 remake. They are changing it but I don't want to say any spoilers.
Seems about average for a Final Fantasy (mainline ish) title. The series has around 18 mainline if you count this one. It also has a butt load of spin-offs, which all in all sold 180 million. A Switch 2 port could push it to 8 or 9 million.
Great number for a exclusive remake. Rebirth may hit even higher with people not holding waiting for next gen and then forgetting to buy.
This is including almost 2 years of the game being on PC. So console only might be around 5 million. And it was added on PS+, so while decent, it's not great after 3 and a half years. Probably why Rebirth only has a 3 month exclusivity on it. These exclusivity deals aren’t doing SE any favors. Hopefully enough time and talk has happened that will boost Rebirth sales.
Not too much go on though when it comes to Xbox when over the past 15 years, only 13 and 15, 2 of the more divisive games in the series, 15 in particular being outright disliked by many, to be the only new releases on Xbox. No one can claim that it's already been shown when there's barely been an effort. You're not going to grow a fanbase with inconsistency. But many Xbox fans really want FF7 Remake for sure and it'll be a telling sign when the results of 14 on Xbox release.
Yeah we definitely do wait don't we lol. Plus we'll get the games for cheaper. When Remake Intergrade finally released on Steam, I was able to get a day one deal for only $20 lol
I could bet that Crisis Core sold more on Switch than on Xbox even though they haven't received a mainline FF on its consoles since SNES.
I mean, I would certainly hope so since the Switch has sold more than the XOne and Series consoles combined by a huge margin. That's not the slam dunk comparison you think it is. I'd be upset with Nintendo fans if that wasn't the case lol
Yes the PS+ gift away for PS5 most likely made the sales number very small addition (although integrade may have help somewhat). The reason for the 3 months is likely also Sony evaluating how much is worthy for them (impact on consoles pushed versus cost). I don't see how the exclusivity deals aren't doing SE favors, the games they lost most money weren't exclusives and the exclusives one covered a portion (or all) of the cost to make the game/market.
SE made money on the likes of Valkyrie Elysium, Babylon's Fall, and Forespoken? The SE exclusives on Nintendo platforms wouldn't have had much of a problem making money because they didn't cost as much to develop and they sold pretty well for what they were. And at full price. FF is really the big money maker for SE and the franchise in general isn't selling as well as it used to. It's hard to argue SE wouldn't have benefited if FF16 wasn't on at least PC on day one.
Can't assume the 3 month exclusivity was on Sony alone. That's a 2 way street that SE would've had to agree to as well, otherwise, no deal. The new SE CEO seems to be running things a bit differently.
It all depends now on the critical reception of FF7 Rebirth. FF7 Remake was at the tail end of the PS4 life cycle. If it came out instead of FF15 then I think things would have played out differently.
I think if the reception of Rebirth is in the 93+ (Metacritic) then the sales will climb. Its a stellar product. If Rebirth is what we expect it to be then the sky is the limit.
Game is too long. Final Fantasy 13 imo is actually a great game, but has chapters (like chapter 4) that are crazy long and a lot of people just stop playing.
FF7 remake has the same problem. A great beginning, but terribly long middle.
For a game of this magnitude I honestly think being exclusive hurt it badly as this game really deserved to be a bigger hit than this or maybe it’s because am thinking nostalgia as this was one of the games that got me into RPGs back in the day
Exclusivity doesn't explain the lack of sales compared with people's expectations.
You have to ask why other playstation exclusives like Ghost of Tsushima opened to much smaller numbers but then outsold FFVII R by a comfortable 3m in the long run.
Other bigger playstation exclusives doubled and even tripled FFVIIRs sales. I think it's clear by now that the Nolstagia for VII and Final Fantasy in general is not enough to ensure huge sales by modern standards. The 7m puts in on par with FFXIII
Another 2 million copies sold when its's being handed out on a $11 subscription service on the console with the lowest number of userbase? Now that's the real "fantasy" XD
A lot of people on VGC truly believes that game being free on day one on GP improve SALES... We will certainly see Starfield first week or month crossing 14M sold right?
We seen that with Forza horizon 5 with almost ,20 million at launch
15 sold 2 million and there wasn't gamepass then. If they added gamepass alongside gamepass who knows. Gamepass apparently exceeded 30 million users and even if 10 percent tried it then that's good lol
The gamepass added to gamepass with 10 percent download equals 2 million magic copies sold what? sorry non of that made any sense.
That's 2 million on gamepass but additional 2 million from physical..that equates to 4 million min.
Yes I get what your saying but I was just saying as looking at other remakes of games n how they sold plus the hype I remember about FF remake when it was announced you have to admit it was like the talk of the whole show
