Sales: In terms of UK boxed sales, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's opening week is down nearly 30% over the launch of the previous game

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In terms of UK boxed sales, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's opening week is down nearly 30% over the launch of the previous game. The first game came out during the peak of COVID lockdowns (gfk figures). Digital data arrives later in the week.

 

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Previous game as in FF16 or FF7Remake?

Either way, too early to tell without digital sales
 
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Way too early to panic, less places to buy physical these days in UK & ireland.

I got physical though, was better price too.

Hope the game does well. Deserves it.
 

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They had that great digital twin package offer, where you got Remake Intertrade + Rebirth for the same price as just Rebirth. That's what I pre-ordered and bought.

These UK box charts are losing relevancy by the day.

Since 2020, more people buy their games digitally.

Also, 2020 was the tail end of the PS4 gen, with about double the install base as the PS5 now (middle of the gen).

This is tailor made for some concern™ though, so the media will spin it for clicks.
 
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Id say that good considering digital wasnt as wide spread and at least 25 percent of all Ps5s are digital now. That and the PS5 installed base is alot smaller than ps4s was at the time.
 

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They had that great digital twin package offer, where you got Remake Intertrade + Rebirth for the same price as just Rebirth. That's what I pre-ordered and bought.

These UK box charts are losing relevancy by the day.

Since 2020, more people buy their games digitally.

Also, 2020 was the tail end of the PS4 gen, with about double the install base as the PS5 now (middle of the gen).

This is tailor made for some concern™ though, so the media will spin it for clicks.
Are people actually trying to spin this as bad?
 
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Helldivers 2 keep everyone occupied and postponed people buying other game

Like 80% of my friendlist are playing helldivers 2 fooking hell that game is a hit
 

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See? Exclusives are bad and unsustainable. is time for this criminal act to stop and SE to release FFVII Remake and Rebirth on Xbox too.

when everybody plays , we all win
 

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I really really hope FFVIIR does great. The development team deserves it.
 

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Only 30%?

That basically hints the sales were way better than Remake.

I really really hope FFVIIR does great. The development team deserves it.
It did if you read the news.
Only 30% drop in physical means it sold way better than Remake.

Titles are having way bigger drop in physical with digital covering it.
And here we are talking about 2020 vs 2024.
 

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Final Fantasy VII Remake : 60.000
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth : 42.000
Final Fantasy XVI : 31.400