Final Fantasy XVI flopped extraordinary on PC. It sold since launch only 280k copies on PC

[Eternal_Wings]

Final Fantasy 16 Extremely Underperformed On PC; Sold Only 289K Units Since Launch

Final Fantasy 16 launch on PC was pretty underwhelming as the game has sold only 289000 copies since it was launched.

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Story Highlight

• Final Fantasy 16 didn’t launch to massive numbers on Steam.
• A new report reveals that the game has sold only 289K copies on Steam since its launch.
• Square Enix is now shifting its focus to releasing games on different platforms to attract more sales.

 

[Johnic]

Yeah, sells 3 million on PS5 in a month, a fraction of that on PC and they want to "attract more gamers on different platforms". What platforms? Xbox won't sell half of what the PC did.

Maybe make better games. FFVIIR was a great game but XVI felt like they had no idea what they wanted the series to be.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

FF16 lifetime sales on PS5 are 5m copies.
Western Media and fanboys across different platforms: "Commercial flop:

Also FF16 lifetime sales on PC 280k.
Where are the PCMRs here, any words to share?

 

[Exicide]

I don't give a fuck about Final Fantasy, there's my words.

 

[Killer_Sakoman]

Yeah, sells 3 million on PS5 in a month, a fraction of that on PC and they want to "attract more gamers on different platforms". What platforms? Xbox won't sell half of what the PC did.

Maybe make better games. FFVIIR was a great game but XVI felt like they had no idea what they wanted the series to be.

XVI was initially felt like a giant step to the right direction, but then went 10 steps bback. However, the game is still good. PC gamers don't like console style games.

 

[On Demand]

Lets see if there will be a bunch of articles and threads on resetera concerned about the sales and Squate Enix.

 

[Thirty7ven]

No you see if the game had launched day 1 then some people would have bought it on PC instead of PlayStation…. Which would’ve changed absolutely nothing.

 

[akira__]

That would be a outstanding success for any jrpg on a Xbox console.

 

[SuperPotato]

Yeah, sells 3 million on PS5 in a month, a fraction of that on PC and they want to "attract more gamers on different platforms". What platforms? Xbox won't sell half of what the PC did.

Maybe make better games. FFVIIR was a great game but XVI felt like they had no idea what they wanted the series to be.

It was 3 million in a week.

 

[Etifilio]

now imagine the xbox sales

 

[Eternal_Wings]

now imagine the xbox sales

500 copies at best.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

Off-topic but simple: JRPG don't sell on PC. PC is just another Xbox.


I can remember when the PCMR claimed that the majority of the one million sold copies were on PC lol

 

[Bo_Hazem]

 

[FatKaz]

 

[ToTTenTranz]

These numbers are bad, but here's two things:

1 - The game released with pretty terrible performance optimization on PC, and AFAIK it still doesn't run on the Steam Deck despite that being promised at some point.

2 - It still hasn't gotten any discount since release. People who waited over a year to play it on the PC can probably wait another 3 months to buy it cheaper. Which is what I'm doing, to be honest.

 

[BillyZ]

If there is one game in particular where a late port won't work it's Final Fantasy XVI. We all played the demo and it was great, little did we know that it was the best part and the game plummets after that. If it was available at launch they would have scammed a few more people into buying but more than a year later it's impossible.

Off-topic but simple: JRPG don't sell on PC. PC is just another Xbox.

Then it will be simple for Sony to secure more exclusives jrpgs in the future. Looking forward to them.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

If there is one game in particular where a late port won't work is Final Fantasy XVI. We all played the demo and it was great, little did we know that it was the best part and the game plummets after that. If it was available at launch they would have scammed a few more people into buying but more than a year later it's impossible.


Then it will be simple for Sony to secure more exclusives jrpgs in the future. Looking forward to them.

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance sold very well even after 2 years across platforms. Vanilla SMT V was exclusive to Nintendo Switch for 2 years...

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

The source of this "report" is a tweet by a rumor poster on X (formerly twitter)

Square Enix did not provide sales figures for FFXVI in their Q2 report.

 

[Loy310]

Keep wasting time on them PC folks that dont show up and support your games, keep doing that shit.

 

[Shadow2027]

Im not sure how on DQ and extra 2 mil i. Revenue ultimately changes the performance of that game or 10-15 mil on FF16. It was dragged through the mud for ps exclusivity which netted $200 mil in revenue in a week with marketing cost paid by PS.

I really dont see what PS sees in it now. Lego horizo has less than 1,000 concurrent so what does 10k copies do for them at 70% rip?