FF16 only sold 3.5 million copies

[Fatch38]

i bought FF15 which is probably the worst magic system in any FF game

and yet one of the most overpowered one once you start to learn how to make it powerful (can litterally do some nasty 500k damage in a single shot)

love ppl saying it's because it wasn't released on pc, pc port is poorly made (like most of SE games, hello FFx/x-2 who crash randomly on every kind of rig for years now without any update to fix it). gameplay is the most boring of the whole serie and outside of eons fights everything else is so static with the same camera angle as ff14.

[Anarnee]

Not that I don't think that there need to be some changes in CBU3 and XIV, but I'm really confused at "only 3.5 million." being the measure of success.

It took FF15 six years to hit 10 million sold and that's as one off the best selling FF games ever. Took FF13 eight years to hit 7 million copies sold.

Now I suspect that this is bait anyways, so I'm not willing to put more time into looking up game sales figures. But 3.5 million in UNDER two years doesn't feel like it's it's a failure to me? Especially for a game that spent most of that time being console exclusive.

[Remedi]

FYI there has been an update that the number of sales of XVI were not from any official source but just pulled from the author estimates or something.

Not that I expect any of this mattering for ppl

[AnnRam]

I've been a fan of FF since ever but I just can't see any kind of interest in 16.

It looks extremely generic like a low budged Korean MMO with those designs.

[Balmung_Griffin]

FFXVI, the game that in hindsight was an extract of FFXIV terrible quest Design and formulaic game mechanics.

They actually thought that this would fly on a single player game. It is more than enough proof that they need to shake up the core of the studio.

[Kunzite_Lockhart]

CBU3 should just focus on FF14—that’s what they do best, instead of putting less and less effort into the main game and focusing on projects that will flop anyway.

[Merton9999]

I'm sure the exclusive console release had some impact. But if a game gets great reaction and word of mouth, does waiting really stop PC players in an impactful way overall sales wise? I really don't know, but XVI didn't get that.

Anyway, they had a free demo to try and hook me. After 45 minutes of boring dialog, uninspired area design and combat nowhere close to other entries in the series, I was not tempted in the least to buy XVI. It's the first Final Fantasy game since ONE that I didn't buy on release.

[Araxes]

Part of it was probably the Playstation-restricted release. It's telling that they are moving away from that now.

By the time it released on PC, I thought to myself, what's the point in buying it? I already watched it through.

Exactly this. I did not Buy 16 or Rebirth because its was Nonsensestation exclusive and by the time they were out for PC i already had the entire Story Forcefed to me by Youtube/social media spoilers.

[BigCheez]

Exactly this. I did not Buy 16 or Rebirth because its was Nonsensestation exclusive and by the time they were out for PC i already had the entire Story Forcefed to me by Youtube/social media spoilers.

Same. I won't buy the FFVII remake or FFXVI for less than a 75% discount. They already took Sony's money. They shouldn't expect to be able to double dip on the PC playerbase's wallets.

[Nadda]

Nobody owns a PS5.

And they took a guy and his squad that have a Huge PC audience and then staggered when the PC Audience got the game.

So you had to either actively avoid the game or get spoiled.

And I don't know about you guys - you ever put a game on your Steam wish list but if you didn't play it when it comes out it just sits there?
I'm sure for example I'd love to play bomb rush cyberfunk, but I just haven't gotten to it and don't feel like buying it. It's still on my wishlist.
We exist in an era where you can only be the "IT" game everybody is playing for a small window before people are off to the next thing.

The only critique really I could find with FF16 was the itemization but I'd still say it was better than the last two major single player entries 13 and 15.
Good story. Sick Devil May Cry combos. Game looks great. Amazing soundtrack. Fun bosses. Cool Kaiju battles.

It's not because it wasn't turned based - I'm actually surprised there is a subsection that think that's what was missing. That feels more like... puritanism. I'm not saying turnbased doesn't have merit but you don't look at FF16 combat and go
"EWWWW Action Combat fucking SICK GROSS *Vomits* God"

When every FF remaster game has a speed up the turnbased combat function lol.

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Also, the whole FF16 undersold + I don't like dawntrail (much to be critical fair) = Yoshi p and CBU3 is trash.

That's some low-blow dog piling confirmation bias bs.