Final Fantasy Series Surpasses 200 Million Total Sales, Pixel Remasters Reach 5 Million

The Final Fantasy franchise has failed to meet Square Enix's expectations.

@AlexPorto When adjusted for inflation 200M is now 100M tops.

@Mikey856 Respect

grew up and loved the ff series since the ps1 era. unfortunately, the franchise is not what it once was and has been in a steady decline with regards to the new numbered entries. final fantasy xvi only contributed to 3.5m of those 200m sales which says a lot about where we are today.

@heavyartillery56 they are talking about 200m copies sold, not generated revenue.

My fav franchise. Absolutely loved Rebirth this past year

5 million sales for the pixel remasters, and they still haven't fixed that jittery movement.

@Porco I thought it was a joke

I can bet they still not happy

Best Franchise ever! Looking forward to Final Fantasy VII part 3!

So GTA V sold more than the whole FF series. No wonder it didnt meet SE's expectations.

Congrats!! Final Fantasy is a Day 1 purchase no matter the game. I’ve platinum’ed FFI & FFII from the pixel remasters so far. It’s a ton of fun to see how this franchise evolved over the years especially since I joined the bandwagon very late

I really hope it doesn’t take ages for FF17 to get developed/launched. I don’t need a mainline game yearly but every three years would be great. At least I know FF7 Part 3 will come out eventually… and I’ve held out on playing FFIX because of the remake rumors far too long

The greatest of all franchises.

Also I would add, if you haven't. Give FF1 a go. It's held up brilliantly if you want a simple time waster after work, and getting the plat is doable with no missable trophies.

@Nalim Yes, GTA 5 has sold more than 99.99999 % of the games and franchises out there.

Is it more or less impressive that FF16 has only sold 3.5 million copies?

@naruball True, but still crazy when you think about it. Especially when the FF series is almost running for 40 years and got 16 main entries.

Congrats to SE. I hope 5 million copies satisfy their target sales.

3.5 million in a year and a half for an AAA game would've been good in the 360/PS3 era. That's actually below average nowadays.

Square wanted a phenomenon like what happened to God of War.

I hope Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 is a smash hit and shows SE that people still want that kind of gameplay. I understand that I'm in the minority - especially on this site - but for me, the combat in Rebirth was so bad as to be completely unplayable just from the demo - I couldn't even finish it, and I absolutely refuse to buy it. Nothing about it works. Even in Remake, I avoided battles as much as I could because I just couldn't stand the combat system. I'd hoped that they had learned a thing or two about action combat with Final Fantasy XVI which was decent in its own right, but nowhere near the peak years of the franchise. A return to the series' roots would be incredible.

@Shad361 They didn't make a game of that quality sadly imo. I don't think a lot of people understand just how difficult it is to do what God of War 2018 did: take a old franchise (that people were tired of) and change the game play, setting, tone and yet, it feels like it shares the DNA of the series in a way that makes it welcoming to new audiences and veterans alike.

We saw it not work for DA Veilguard and it definitely was a disappointment for FFXVI. The only other game that saw a massive overhaul and be successful like that was BOTW in recent memory because it still felt like Zelda.

@Porco Pretty sure he's being sarcastic unless...

@Nalim I don't think it's crazy to be honest.