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Final Fantasy VII: Remake sets a new launch month Final Fantasy franchise sales record in both unit and dollar sales in the US
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Wasn't the opposite?
People buying without knowing is part1 would only boos sales. The effect of the splitting will be known when part 2 launches.
I think this makes more sense yeah. I'm not sure I've been on board with how SE has treated the game.
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No. The narrative was that "so many people would be disappointed when they finished the game and find out that it ends in the Midgar escape". That clearly didn't happen.
Maybe. To be honest, I haven't seen much blowback from upset casuals.
After spending the better part of five years expecting nothing but disappointment from the game, I'm very glad to admit I was wrong (even if it took a hard mode playthrough for me to love it and not just like it). I'm ready when you are for part 2 Square.
I'm more approaching it saying that it is irresponsible for SE not to denote something in the title of the game that informs people that this isn't the full remake. You are saying people didn't end up being miffed about it. I'm not sure we can actually say that is true without waiting until the next game and seeing the sales for it imo. Obviously there are going to be other factors with the next game launching on next gen, and most likely on more than one platform.
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Oh I see. From huge 'backslash' to "wait for the part 2 now"
Fair.
There is no blowback.
It's being manufactured.
The sales of part 2 are not relevant to that point anyway. They are likely to be less in any case as realistically only people who have played part 1 will play it. So part 1 sales would be an upper ceiling.
Amazing
I hope this means:
1) they'll put in resources for an amazing patch to fix technical issues and add story scenes that are needed
2) they'll consider thoughtful, polished dlc with maybe a 5-hour scenario (something to enjoy before the next installment which is bound to take forever)
3) they'll throw gazzillion dollars at part 2 and not hold anything back and make it a perfect game
I hope this means:
1) they'll put in resources for an amazing patch to fix technical issues and add story scenes that are needed
2) they'll consider thoughtful, polished dlc with maybe a 5-hour scenario (something to enjoy before the next installment which is bound to take forever)
3) they'll throw gazzillion dollars at part 2 and not hold anything back and make it a perfect game
Me neither. I've seen more people upset from the "Nomura butchering the story".
I guess after playing and knowing what this remake really was, the "Part 1" discussion became irrelevant.
When part 2 comes we will know if people liked the direction, not if people dislike the split.
FFXV had a huge discount day one on Xbox one.
FFVIIR success is great for the franchise, the return of the king!!
FFVIIR success is great for the franchise, the return of the king!!
That is a weird analogy because this game isn't any better for being in a single platform. Particularly given the performing optimisation which might have gone better on more capable platforms. Sold good tho
Yeah that might sound good and am but when people hear about the stuff they did they will not buy the second part! I am an expert!
I hope they only fix the textures if possible and move on. If they do DLC I think it makes the most scenes to do it for the last part and instead right now focus on moving on to Part 2 right away (like they seemingly do).
At most maybe some new battles in the simulator/corneos.
Tetsuya Nomura is an industry icon and legend. We stan for this pledge of allegiance.
Final Fantasy VII Remake is doing the damn thang, sales and review-wise. Good shit.
Final Fantasy VII Remake is doing the damn thang, sales and review-wise. Good shit.
I wonder how the fanbase will twist this game's sales and frame them as a failure like they did with XV's. Because hot damn, they're good.
Also,Nomura delivered the best selling Kingdom Hearts and the best selling FF one after the other...He's not going anywhere.
Also,Nomura delivered the best selling Kingdom Hearts and the best selling FF one after the other...He's not going anywhere.
Kingdom Hearts highly disagrees. He can relish in FFV:R being a success since it wasn't originally written by him (Thank God)
But that man should never touch a pen again for anything solo.
KH3 sold like 5m copies lol. So even if you dont want to credit him for FF7R, hes still directed one of square's biggest recent successes
Yep. Just don't let Nomura write the story and keep the pen in Nojima' s hand.
Blasphemy.
I don't care about the sales. People love Kingdom Hearts more for nostalgic reason than the story. Everybody knows it's confusing af but the game is fun. Nomura is a bad writer and that's okay. What he does well is sell a good gameplay experience and be should just stay there. I just want square to never hand that man a pen. He's better when he's collaborating with competent writers 😂
I didn't care much for the original either. Remake is incredible, though.
Well yeah I think hes not a great writer either, just saying we shouldn't discredit the man in general lol
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“Final Fantasy 7 Remake sold 2.2M units digitally around the globe in April, according to SuperData estimates. This is a record for the series & a PlayStation exclusive, outpacing Marvel's Spider-Man. Note that previously Square Enix said the game sold 3.5M in its first 3 days.”
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Yeah, my hope as well.
I am so proud of the game and the work SE put into it. 95 hours well spent and I am hungry for more!!!
Dom on Twitter
“Final Fantasy 7 Remake sold 2.2M units digitally around the globe in April, according to SuperData estimates. This is a record for the series & a PlayStation exclusive, outpacing Marvel's Spider-Man. Note that previously Square Enix said the game sold 3.5M in its first 3 days.”
If that is right it should be close to 5 million in 1 month depending on the ratio between digital and physical
That is God of War big :0