It's not that we're "creating a narrative" that FF XVI has sold well; it's that other people who have a weird fetish to see this game fail, pull speculation out their own ass with no data to back up their statements. We haven't gotten sales updates for Diablo 4 since June either, IIRC. Can we also just go around and say that game was a failure?
That user's "analysis" is ripped straight from the Bloomberg Takashi school, and we know that dude has his own biases to the point of being directly corrected by his own sources over his own BS in reporting. If someone wants to push the idea XVI hasn't sold well, maybe SE announcing the PC version so soon after console launch would be a better point to latch onto, considering the PC version isn't due until early next year at the soonest.
I still stand by the fact them listing a PC version in initial advertising really hurt the game's sales on console, because a lot of would-be Day 1 purchasers or those who'd buy it on PS5 months down the line, are just assuming the PC version will be out by January next year, and are waiting for that instead. If it's supposed to be a console exclusive, advertise it as such.
That includes the fine print.
