Final Fantasy XVI Reaches 3 Million Physical Shipments And Digital Copies Sold

Closing Fantasy XVI hit PlayStation 5 solely final week on June 23, and fewer than per week later, Sq. Enix has introduced it has shipped and digitally offered 3 million copies. 

It’s a considerably odd metric to parse out as a result of copies shipped and offered aren’t the identical. For instance, a shipped copy would possibly nonetheless be sitting on a recreation retailer shelf, whereas a digital copy offered is cash made. Nonetheless, between bodily shipped copies of FFXVI and digital variations bought by gamers, Sq. Enix says it has reached 3 million copies offered. 

That’s an ideal launch for any recreation, particularly one unique to PlayStation 5. Nonetheless, its predecessor, Closing Fantasy XV, which it Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2016, stays the sequence’ best-selling recreation at launch. When FFXV hit PlayStation and Xbox seven years in the past, its day-one shipments and digital gross sales exceeded 5 million on launch day (thanks, Polygon). FFXVI has hit 3 million in roughly six days, it seems. FFXV additionally reached 6 million world gross sales quicker than every other entry within the Closing Fantasy franchise; now we wait to see if FFXVI beats that.

The earlier new Closing Fantasy launch (excluding this 12 months’s pixel remaster assortment) earlier than FFXVI was final 12 months’s Stranger of Paradise: Closing Fantasy Origin, a spin-off title set on the planet of the primary Closing Fantasy. Stranger of Paradise had the fourth lowest launch for a Closing Fantasy spin-off recreation in Japan (thanks, Eurogamer), simply above a couple of spin-off Wii titles, so in the present day’s FFXVI numbers stand in stark and spectacular distinction to that. Thoughts you, I like Stranger of Paradise – I even obtained the Platinum trophy for it on PlayStation 5 – but it surely’s clear gamers are extra prepared to indicate up for the mainline Closing Fantasy video games in comparison with the sequence spinoffs. 

In accordance with recreation gross sales analyst Benji-Sales, FFXVI’s launch numbers additionally are available a tad bit below 2020’s Closing Fantasy VII Remake, which reached 3.5 million in three days. 

For extra, learn Sport Informer’s Closing Fantasy XVI overview to be taught my ideas on the sport after which this opinion piece about why we love the Lively Time Lore function a lot. After that, examine how we predict Closing Fantasy XVI will get localization proper, after which take a look at our fight suggestions information and newbie’s suggestions information. And if that’s not sufficient, we’ve greater than two dozen options in regards to the behind-the-scenes growth of Closing Fantasy XVI in our cowl story hub for the sport. 

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