The Final Fantasy series has sold over 185 million units worldwide.

[Gamernyc78]

The Final Fantasy series has sold over 185 million units worldwide.​

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[ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈]

For a series that's over 30 years old I was expecting at least 200 million. Hmm.

 

[Gamernyc78]

For a series that's over 30 years old I was expecting at least 200 million. Hmm.

Hmmm there are alot of sequels.

 

[Yurinka]

For a series that's over 30 years old I was expecting at least 200 million. Hmm.

There are only a few series in gaming history that sold (not counting F2P) more than 185M units. Maybe only Mario, FIFA, CoD, Assassiin's Creed, Pokemon, Tetris (most of them sold in a single game), Sims, Lego, Minecraft (most of them sold with a single game) and GTA.

 

[Gamernyc78]

There are only a few series in gaming history that sold (not counting F2P) more than 185M units. Maybe only Mario, FIFA, CoD, Assassiin's Creed, Pokemon, Tetris (most of them sold in a single game), Sims, Lego, Minecraft (most of them sold with a single game) and GTA.

Its not about whether series have achieved that because some series have nowhere near as many entries as Final Fantasy which has over 15 entries. What would be relevant is series to number of Installments comparisons.

 

[Yurinka]

Its not about whether series have achieved that because some series have nowhere near as many entries as Final Fantasy which has over 15 entries. What would be relevant is series to number of Installments comparisons.

Well, I'd say FIFA, COD, AC, Pokemon, Sims, Lego and specially Mario had way more games -even if only counting the main ones- than FF. And most of them are also -unlike FF- heavily bundled with almost every new entry.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Well, I'd say FIFA, COD, AC, Pokemon, Sims, Lego and specially Mario had way more games -even if only counting the main ones- than FF. And most of them are also -unlike FF- heavily bundled with almost every new entry.

Fair enough. Just wanted to put the overall analysis in perspective with metrics that matter.

 

[Yurinka]

Fair enough. Just wanted to put the overall analysis in perspective with metrics that matter.

Yep. I'm not specially a RPG/FF fan, but I have to admit that this series had great sales every generation since the NES and SNES (back then only in Japan, until they moved to PS) until today, always leading their genre.

And also did it restarting from scratch its history and characters in every numbered chapter, plus also not being bundled in dozens of millions unitts of specific console, and not being a 1 hit wonder like Tetris or Minecraft.

 

[riesgoyfortuna]

I Still remember people here telling me that bethesda games are more popular in the public scene than the final fantasy series, fucking lol, specially after the starfield fiasco and all the hype on the new ff7 part 2 remake showing

 

[sugarbetik]

I Still remember people here telling me that bethesda games are more popular in the public scene than the final fantasy series, fucking lol, specially after the starfield fiasco and all the hype on the new ff7 part 2 remake showing

It's kinda true when a crap like StarField only needed less than a month to outsell FFXVI with 2 months advantage in the US and Europe lol.

Final Fantasy franchise is getting smaller and even Kirby game is currently bigger than the latest FF game.