Worried Fans Can Rest Easy: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Is 'Doing Very Well' on PS5, PC

I feel like we always have to take Square Enix sales news with a grain of salt

Would have sounded much more credible if they disclosed sale numbers, as Capcom habitually does.

Ah, Square Enix and their mood swings.

No offense to Hamaguchi, but when it comes to Square's game sales talk, I tend to put a lot more weight into what they say during their corporate financial meetings, where fiduciary obligation is a thing, instead of what the devs say.

It's doing so well that they decided to make it multiplatform.

I have complete faith that SE will deliver with part 3, Rebirth was my GOTY last year

@get2sammyb Square poo-pooing their sales numbers is a meme at this point. I'm more surprised when a game actually does meet or exceed their sales goals these days because it rarely happens.

Square-enix thought rebirth would immediately sell the same amount as remake on the PS4. What they forgot was that the PS5 didn't had the same amount of units sold and that they lost a big part of the fans, because of weird story choices.

FF17 can outsell GTA6, and they’d still consider it a disappointment

I wouldn't be surprised if Sony told Square to stow them talks about it being the PS5's fault for "lacking" sales.

Sony should sit down with the publishers and just tell them either stop the ***** talk on ps5 or hey let an exclusive xbox release carry you and see how that does for your sales

It took me time to buy and playe the game, but I'm in chapter 9 now, Gongaga, and this game is one of the most extraordinary I ever played. It's really impressive, jaw dropping. Square Enix firing all cillinders!!

So why on earth SE president said as if the game is a big flop and pointed his fingers at Sony while screaming "no more exclusives, we're going full multiplat!"?

It seems there's some big clash between SE higher ups like Kiryu and the devs like Nomura, Yoshi-P, etc.

Well Pushsquare has really squeezed every sort of article out of final fantasy 7 and 15 sales, so who's making a big issue out of it.

@PuppetMaster

So why on earth SE president said as if the game is a big flop and pointed his fingers at Sony while screaming "no more exclusives, we're going full multiplat!"?

Seriously, I cannot find any comments by the Square Enix president blaming Sony or PlayStation directly for any of their recent games underperforming. They only said “profits unfortunately did not meet expectations” and they want to “shift to a multiplatform strategy”. Sounds more like a Square Enix problem to me, as their games are too expensive to keep them exclusive to one platform. Going multiplatform doesn't mean they'll stop developing for PlayStation. There's nothing wrong with targeting more players.

@TrollOfWar Here's the president mention PS5 install base as the factor for FF 16 sales didn't reach their high expectations
https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-sales-did-not-meet-high-expectations-says-square-enix-president#:~:text=Blames slow adoption of PS5,a limiting factor%2C Bloomberg reports.

SE received a lot of money from Sony in exchange for exclusivity with Sony also helped with the marketing. All those could help SE to balance the budget. So this "it's too expensives to stay in one platform" sounds like a weird excuse. If they think the cost are too high then why they accept Sony's deal in the first place?

@PuppetMaster

Here's the president mention PS5 install base as the factor for FF 16 sales didn't reach their high expectations
https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-sales-did-not-meet-high-expectations-says-square-enix-president#:~:text=Blames slow adoption of PS5,a limiting factor%2C Bloomberg reports.

You're correct, that does sound like the Square Enix president is blaming PS5 for FF16 underperforming.

SE received a lot of money from Sony in exchange for exclusivity with Sony also helped with the marketing. All those could help SE to balance the budget. So this "it's too expensives to stay in one platform" sounds like a weird excuse. If they think the cost are too high then why they accept Sony's deal in the first place?

Square Enix are like mercenaries. They take money from the highest bidder. They also took $ 100 million for Rise of the Tomb Raider's 1-year exclusivity on Xbox, and afterwards released the game on PlayStation. From what I remember these Final Fantasy exclusivity deals were limited to 2 years on PlayStation, so afterwards Square Enix can release the games wherever they want. It's surprising that it took ao long for them to do so in case of FF7 Remake.

LOL SE is talking itself into trouble... Shut the hell up! I really hope Sony isn't stupid enough to fund FF 17 again.

SE will probably be acquired by Tencent in a few years anyway, and that's entirely their fault.

Square Enix is the definition of backstabbing mfers lol
I'm still waiting for those SWITCH AND PC EXCLUSIVES to come over to Playstation 5. Where's Bravely Default and Harvestella? Apparently they don't care or complain if the game is Switch exclusive...

Anyway, I haven't bought anything from SE since last June and i don't plan on changing this so soon

And yet he does not provide a number to go with that statement.

People are concerned and worried over a game’s sales? What?

@get2sammyb I love FF7 but it takes so long. I lost interest would love a graphical update with a Cloud and Tifa and as a couple. A 5th rumored weapon for Cloud to be real and some extra summons.

Dont get met wrong the game looks fantastic bit i just want to play the complete game.

The worst thing was locking summons beind a more expensive version. It's not a bad game bit it takes so long people lose interest.

Glad to hear that.