Square Enix has released its latest earnings report, and unfortunately, those still wating on official sales numbers for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be left disappointed. The sequel's commercial success remains shrouded in mystery while the publisher reveals a year-on-year decline for game sales over the most recent quarter.
That 18.4% decline doesn't come as a huge surprise, though. This time last year, we were just a month or so removed from the launch of Final Fantasy 16, and the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters had hit PS4 in April. Even if Rebirth had turned out to be a sales titan, Square Enix still wouldn't have expected it to make up the difference months after its release.
To be fair, the publisher probably won't be too concerned with this sales dip anyway, as it still managed to record a profit. However, this is largely attributed to the company's rather aggressive restructuring, which saw it cut a whole bunch of in-development projects loose, worth around £112 million.
And of course, of you can always rely on Final Fantasy 14. Even though this report doesn't take the latest expansion, Dawntrail, into account, the eternally popular MMO still enjoyed an increase in both sales and profit year-on-year. Presumably, this growth was down to the impending launch of the aforementioned expansion.
Overall, then, Square Enix is looking a little healthier — but there's probably going to be some additional pressure on its next big release.