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

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Why Steam CCU and sales numbers don't show the whole story or arent the deciding factor for a game or exclusive etc.

Theres gonna be games that sell better on PC and vice versa. Some with much bigger or small gaps.

Alot of these guys asking for everything to be on their platform wont be play the game, its for bragging rights. I want AOE and Flight Simulator on PS5 because Ill buy them and play them, not to brag my platform is the best place to play lol
 

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Old game, not that good, jrpgs dont sell that well on steam, on average.
Its a year old. And scored in the high 80’s. It just didnt appeal to alot of PC players.

But if old is the reason, then better tell Rockstar to Cancel there GTA6 PC port, its gonna take a year at least
 
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I see this claim that FF16 sold 5 million but is there anything to back this up? Steamspy is fake and always bullshit so those kinds of estimates should be wholly discredited.
 

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Hmm true. No point in releasing GTA VI at all on PC. I'll be sure to let the Housers know

Do it quick!! Rockstar about to lose the house if they dont release day 1 on PC.

You might need a time machine to cancel GTA5 PC port as it came to PC in 2015, 2 years after console (2013). No wonder GTA5 didnt sell well, it wasnt on PC day 1…
 

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Old game, not that good, jrpgs dont sell that well on steam, on average.

Odd considering pretty much any game that is not FF is growing very well on Steam. Persona, Yakuza, Tales of, Dragon Quest, Granblue etc.
 

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Not surprising considering the fact that the game released on PC 15 months after PlayStation 5. Square Enix needs to release their games day one everywhere or every single game of theirs will flop.
 
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I see this claim that FF16 sold 5 million but is there anything to back this up? Steamspy is fake and always bullshit so those kinds of estimates should be wholly discredited.
5m on PS5 only. According to websites as VGChartz and Famitsu counting.
 
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Not surprising considering the fact that the game released on PC 15 months after PlayStation 5. Square Enix needs to release their games day one everywhere or every single game of theirs will flop.
Surely some games done well years later? Rockstar games for example.
I think it matters more the game/genre and people feel about it
 

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Elden Ring has most of it's players on PC. Your argument holds ZERO water.

PC gamers want real games, not games pretending to be other games. Case in Point, if Squeenix made a real Final Fantasy it would sell well. But they keep trying to make shit action games all in hopes of attaining ALL the money, but they seem to be trying to westernize too much and fail at exploiting what made them great in the first place all those years ago. Let them die, there's devs and studios who can and ARE doing what Square use to do, make great Jrpgs.
29% is on PC. Playstation +xbox are 71%. How is it most players are on PC?

 

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Surely some games done well years later? Rockstar games for example.
I think it matters more the game/genre and people feel about it

Perhaps but Rockstar is one of the very few companies that can get people to double and even triple dip on games which is why they can stagnate their releases which doesn't work for the vast majority of other publishers.
 

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5m on PS5 only. According to websites as VGChartz and Famitsu counting.

Unfortunately that means we do not have real numbers. That shit is fake. So fake that it should 100% be disregarded and never cited.

I do believe “most” FF fans are indeed on PlayStation. But I also believe that means the appeal of Ff outside of the MMO has shrank considerably since FF15. With that said however… I believe 16 has served goodwill to both fans new and old better than 15’s cringe.
 
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29% is on PC. Playstation +xbox are 71%. How is it most players are on PC?

At 41%, most of the total Elden Ring sales were for the PS4 and PS5.​

I sure don't count PS4 and PS5 as the same console and I doubt folks that own both double dipped

That means between 3 different 'consoles SKUs' they amount to 70 percent.
On the other hand 1/3 of total sales came from 1 platform. PC.
If we are going by Platform, which we are. PC is still the most.
Unless you wanna argue PS4/PS5/Xbox are all the same, which you obviously wouldn't claim.