Square Enix is a famously onerous grasp to please, and eagle-eyed followers desirous about trade analytics could have famous that regardless of launching over a month in the past on 29th February, completely on PS5, onerous gross sales figures for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are but to be launched. Considering it took simply three days for the agency to trumpet Remake’s success throughout an analogous interval and 6 days for Final Fantasy XVI, it ought to be no enormous shock that the sequel is underperforming in some sense.
With Square Enix radio silent, we have been pressured to depend on trade analysts with entry to costly and esoteric analytics. According to Ampere, Rebirth has bought some 2 million copies in over a month available on the market, a big step again from Remake, which bought 3.5 million in simply three days. For additional comparability, mainline entry XVI managed to hit 3 million in simply six days (and even that was thought gentle by SE), and like Remake, Square Enix was extraordinarily fast to boast of the feat, making its silence much more notable.
According to Daniel Ahmad (thanks Eurogamer), director of analysis and insights at Niko Partners, it appears that evidently Final Fantasy followers have abruptly develop into sequel-shy: “Not to be that guy, but Rebirth is underperforming sales-wise.” Ahmad responded to a ridiculous Twitter thread that falsely claimed the sport was solely promoting as a result of intercourse enchantment of a few of its characters, and when pressed, replied that gross sales knowledge was acquired through “equities research reports, who are getting the data from the usual trackers”.
Now, it’s value noting that Remake was launched on PS4 (bigger set up base) in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic (captive viewers), which little question accounted for elevated gross sales. What is value preserving in thoughts is the inflationary atmosphere by which Rebirth was launched, which means Square Enix will doubtless have to promote extra copies of its newest to succeed in the identical place as Remake, and that is earlier than contemplating budgetary variations.
