Final Fantasy XV Worldwide Sales Top Five Million, Fastest-Selling Title in the Series

Final Fantasy XV, which launched worldwide for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Tuesday, November 29, has sold five million copies, Square Enix announced.

[UCForce]

Yes ! Now that's good !

[RpgSama]

I hope it's true, but on the article it says shipped, not sold, I want the best for this brand, hope it eventually sells 10+ millions and keep improving on this formula.

[ShadowKnight]

I guess everyone likes the new formula and game play instead of the turn based game play. Tbh it didn't matter to me I like both formulas

[raWfodog]

When you google-translate the Square Enix announcement:

"Square Enix (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President: Yosuke Matsuda, following Square Enix), the game software were all simultaneously released worldwide on November 29, 2016 (Tuesday), "Final Fantasy XV" ( compatible models: PlayStation®4 / sales of One Xbox) * 1 is, I will inform you that it has topped 500 million copies in the first day of sale. This is the fastest of the record, even in the "Final Fantasy" series of history."

500 million copies?!? It's over 9000!! :)

[kevnb]

@ShadowKnight
i think turn based could have worked, but the combat isnt the only part of the gameplay. The gameplay consists of the leveling system, the exploration, the locations to discover and everything you actually do in the game.. overall it feels more like some of the older games despite the combat changes.
Fans of the series want to get lost in these games and their worlds, final fantasy xv does a good job at this and doesnt just rely on the story line like final fantasy 13 did.
Lets not forget that they marketed this game well, Im confident that it will sell at least 10 million copies.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Shipped to the retail actually means sold, retail buys copies of games.

[nix]

Digitally pre ordered this and The Last Guardian. Best week ever.

And congrats Square Enix.

[bouzebbal]

Haha nice, thanks to Ps4.
Ff16 confirmed !!! Jrpg is going nowhere

[blackblades]

They also said digital as well.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Yeah but to square Enix that's sold to them they made their money. Also they wouldn't ship that many to retailers if there wasn't demand so this is pretty impressive.

[LAWSON72]

I hope they continue making games they want to make, rather than forcing the plot to make sense around a required open world formula. I am all for maybe a few sequels/spin offs that think they can add to the experience and keep us entertained while we wait for something totally new and fresh.

[Nu]

I agree it's false information. I bought this game but in a way I hope it's a flop so that the series returns to the traditional turned based style.
Square Enix pumped so much cash into this it's ridiculous.

[Muzikguy]

I hope that future releases aren't all open world. Just hope they mix it up instead of sticking to one thing.

@Shadow

I bought FFXV and the new battle formula is my biggest complaint. The game itself is all right, I just wanted to point out that not everyone likes it. I don't

@kevn

Ff13 had a story? I must have misssd that 😄 Seriously though, I believe people want to get lost in the gaming world of FF too. It's nice to see this in XV

[Slowbro]

Alright I'll be the asshole and say that it's only 5 million shipped not sold

[Noxrest]

Retailers don't get copies for free you know?

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Doesn't matter that's sold to square Enix they got their money.

[Ulf]

That means they are sold -- what they eventually have to set the price at, to sell them, is still a factor, but those games ARE sold.

Retail doesn't get a free pass to pass the expense of unsold merchandise back to the manufacturer. They place an order, they sell it. There is risk involved. No free lunch.

Some money may change hands, due to contractual obligations regarding price control, but the games are still sold.

[XanderZane]

Yes, that's good news. I'll definitely pick up a copy next year.
Even though World of Fnal Fantasy hasn't gotten stellar reviews, I'm still enjoying it.

[vega275]

I couldn't wait so i bought the game on X1 and i got to say. As a long time fan of final Fantasy. This one is my next favorite behind FF7.

[Irishguy95]

I need me some Kalkano so I can lick his tears. Haw haw. Nah, really enjoying the game so far though. My favorite part of the game are dungeons so far

[Genuine-User]

Wow! That's great :)

[Steveoreno1]

Sigh....... there goes my dream that it will go back to turn based.

FF 15 summons: 4
FF 7 summons: 16

FF 15 limit breaks: 1
FF 7 limit breaks: 52

[Blade1587]

quantity doesnt equal quality. its obvious that the ff15 summons took alot more work to accomplish. besides, you say you want it to go back to turn based, but then use the number of summons and limit breaks like being turn based or action has anything to do with the amount of summons the game has

[Noxrest]

you are missing the point, FFVII and FFXV are enourmously different games, everybody can do that:

FFVII Recipes: 0
FFXV Recipes: 50+

FFXV sidequest: 100+
FFVII sidequest: 30+

See?

[Steveoreno1]

Maybe if they spent a couple more years on it they could have made more summons. I don't know about you, but I like variety. I don't want to see the same limit break the whole game.

[Irishguy95]

Yeah, but...like...the difference is you are interacting with the limit break, also argubly Armiger is not the limit break. Use warp strike with each royal arm, they are all different 'looking'. Since you want different looking limit brreaks, I mean the result is the same..different levels of numbers taken away from the enemies health.

Also, summons in this game are more focused on, because..they're central to the plot. But whatever. I don't mind turn based like I love the old FF's. But..theres a good reason the old FF's had quantity. Its nice seeing Ramuh stand over the battlefield imo. The summons are even more of a story thing than a use in battle for FFXV.

[ZaWarudo]

Wow, i was wrong. http://n4g.com/news/1988990...

[vikingland1]

That's classy of you, thumbs up.

[Ricegum]

I thumbs upped both his comments to show my bare respect to him.

[ZaWarudo]

Aw thanks! :)

I'm honestly surprised. Everything turned out pretty well, even the game.

[zivtheawesome]

A prophecy that realizes itself XD

[HSDT0597]

It must be the work of an enemy stand!

[ZaWarudo]

N-nani!?!

[DragonDDark]

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[game4funz]

Hats off to you. You're now officially recognized as an adult. It's okay to be wrong but much more amazing is to acknowledge it.

That's said. I'm really happy to hear sales are good. Still need to get my copy.

[Exvalos]

Man of you to admit when your wrong, but man nobody expected it to sell this well

[_-EDMIX-_]

I did.

I've been telling you guys this for a very long time that this is probably going to be the best selling Final Fantasy game in history for a multitude of reasons.

One of the biggest reasons was Final Fantasy 13 moved 8 million units despite lots of fans sort of not liking the game, whereas last generation it was clear there was actually more interest for Final Fantasy 13 vs then there was for Final Fantasy 13.

We only know the sales of Final Fantasy 13 from people who purchased it brand new we do not know the sales of people who purchased it used or borrowed it from a friend meaning the install days of Final Fantasy fans is much higher than a recorded number from sales.

I predicted the same thing for grand theft auto 5 to surpass san andreas by a ridiculous amount not just because there was a bunch of a new grand theft auto fans, simply because there was a lot of undocumented grand theft auto fans, I remember reading somewhere that san andreas was on the top 10 for best selling GameStop games used for almost years..

Which actually means there's more people that actually played and loved san andreas then was ever recorded which actually ment Grand Theft Auto V could absolutely top San Andreas sales literally within weeks.

If you add that formula to Final Fantasy 15 you only need a very small millions to surpass Final Fantasy 13 in just a little bit more to become the best selling Final Fantasy game in the world, before a PC release mind you.

Fallout 4 sold 12 million units in a single week despite Fallout 3 not selling that.

edit. LOLZ, cry babies can disagree, its fine....I called it folks. You guys need to legit stop trying to guess DOOM based on your PERSONAL hate. MORE then enough were raving about FFXV to see it was going to break records. It only needs to sell a small amount MORE then FFXIII just to break that record and I saw that happening really, really easily. Not because I like it....because ENOUGH liked it. You folks exaggerated this game's shortcomings to a absurd degree. Its well on its way to crushing FF records, before a PC release, before a price cut. They are well on their way to surpass FFVII in sales.

[cash_longfellow]

To call yourself wrong and post a link to it is super classy...you win N4G for the day my friend.

[ZaWarudo]

Thanks :D

[_-EDMIX-_]

I mean respect for acknowledging it most people on here would not.

It's simply a guess.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

This might be the shipped number, but nonetheless it is funny that it was right on the money lol

[Nyxus]

Nice, I'm glad the game is doing well.

[Mr-Dude]

Good , now keep working on it SE. Iron out the kinks.

[no_more_heroes]

yeah, kinks like "why the feather-dust is the stamina bar both off by default and not integrated into the character HP/MP UI?"

[Mr-Dude]

Or why are their some words not fully translates in JP dub?

[cartoonx1]

there are still frame pacing issues on ps4/pro they really need to figure it out, from eurogamer's analysis it seems its worst thn bloodborne.

[DarkOcelet]

Holy!

I didnt expect that big of a numbers. Congratulations Square and Tabata on amazing sales for an amazing game.

[UCForce]

Seriously, I need to buy FF 15 right now.

[TheDreamCorridor]

5 million in two days!?!?

But I thought... consoles and console exclusives are dying!?!?!?!?!?

*hangs self in 120 FPS*

[ClayRules2012]

@TheDreamCorridor- "I run towards you, to try and save you, in 60FPS" I was too slow. I should've put on my Nike's shoes. In the end, I couldn't save you.
My vision wasn't clear enough either, while running. I was only seeing everything in 720p resolution, and got lost. I knew I should've grabbed my glasses, that way, I would've seen everything in 4K...

Edit: @Eiyuuou - Ugh. I didn't think of that... I feel like a fool now lol.

I'm a FAILURE =(

[Eiyuuou]

Should've warped.

[cartoonx1]

guess u miss this news? http://www.pcgamer.com/diab...
one one platform.
also the article says shipped not sold. anyway 10 years+ so this figure isnt surprising. just hope it goes well for square.

[Germany7]

Lol at the pc beggar, you are the same guy that is always begging for console exclusives.

[jaycptza]

they probably did miss that. This has nothing to do with a an article/game of 4 years ago. we are fans of FF

[Germany7]

According to sites like dsogaming, wctech or any shitty site full of pc fanboys. Edit: This Frinker douche calling someone a fanboy, now thats a good joke.

[NotanotherReboot]

And this site is full of PS fanboys like yourself. You're a problem just as much as any other fanboy

[UCForce]

@Frinker You are really not helping.

[Movefasta1993]

WTFFF crazy.

[MasterCornholio]

Those are very good sales.

[UCForce]

Now that's amazing !

[Relientk77]

Damn, that's nice

[Skankinruby]

Very nice, my deluxe edition needs to be delivered asap

[ninsigma]

Did you order from the square enix store?? Still waiting for mine to arrive from them.

[Skankinruby]

No I ordered from a 3rd party seller. Wasn't gonna buy it right now but since it sold out so fast I jumped on it before prices got even higher.

[ninsigma]

Ah ok fair enough. Hope it arrives for ya soon :)

[muttsurini]

I regretted that i did't get the deluxe edition, such a beautiful box art, but the ff15 team signatures makes up for it.

[Miraak82]

I still haven't bought my copy , need to wait a week or so before I can .. I've waited this long , i'm in no rush

[Auron]

Got it last night so far so good. Question... how long does it take before you can change your clothes? I'm not diggn the default attire.

[ps360s]

You can change it right away

Well I did lol

[vikingland1]

You can do it in the 1st chapter it's in the gear settings I think.

[Auron]

Oh lol thanks guys!

[thejigisup]

Can't wait to pick up my copy tonight. I have a nice little 3 day weekend ahead of me. I'm picking up some funions and Mountain Dew and hunkering down with this game. I'm hoping it surpasses my expectations. I haven't been so keen on the direction of the series since ffix, good games nonetheless but it's been a long while since I've been excited to play a Final Fantasy. The anime, kingsglaive, and the demos are top notch.

[joab777]

Wow! I haven't even bought it yet!

[deafdani]

When you do, its sales will jump to 10 million!

[joab777]

I know and they already have a ton of updates planned. Nothing for customization though and that's one of my biggest priorities for an rpg. Love to be able to change how I look etc.

[mochachino]

Glad to see an AAA SP based game is still selling well.

[Deathdeliverer]

Game is amazing to me. I don't see how people are just rushing through the main story quest when there is so much to see and do. It's early but this might be the best Final Fantasy ever. Gotta see how things play out.

[ninsigma]

How's the open world aspect?? Haven't played yet so my one worry is that it will be too barren. Other than that I'm stoked to play it!

[muttsurini]

Pretty good if you asked me, many hidden dungeons, a monster hunter like side quest, beautiful locations, hidden bosses to find out and much more.

[ninsigma]

Sounds good! It definitely looks great but obviously having not played it yet when I see a massive expanse of just scenery it's a bit off putting :p
Good to hear there's plenty to do in it :)

Edit: fixed autocorrect

[Deathdeliverer]

It's plenty of life in this. That was a huge issue I had with MGS5. Huge areas with absolutely nothing in em. This game has huge areas but there's enemies, treasure, that rare herb you're looking for, Dungeons hidden between two bushes, hidden fishing holes, and more. Not to mention that it's all beautiful. Driving the car and you reach a animal crossing and things come by like they are really in their habitat. Music is great. Plus combat that is a blast. Once you understand ascension and how to apply it to your play style it gets even better. Gladiolus is a MF'n POWERHOUSE!

[ninsigma]

Sounds awesome! Gonna put so many hours into this once I start!

[Yohshida]

Crazy, will buy the limited Edition this christmas

[GoldPunch-TR]

What? 5 million in a just one day? Thats soooo great.

[ninsigma]

Great sales! I honestly didn't expect it to be as popular as that! Glad it's finally out and that for the most part people are really enjoying it. Can't wait to sink myself into that world once I complete tlg!

[Blu3_Berry]

I'm glad. I'm really enjoy Final Fantasy 15 so far, especially after the XIII series that really hurt the main brand. I think this entry is on the right path and I hope to see more mainline final fantasy games take a freeflow combat approach instead of turn-based.

I don't have anything against turned based games, but I noticed that spin-offs technically seem to do better when it comes to final fantasy for some reason.

[lastking95]

Holy **** already! Wow. Not a FF fan but congrats

[goldwyncq]

Haters must be in tears right now lol

[Segata]

To be fair the title is wrong. It's shipped not sold

[jaycptza]

Square Enix Sold to retailers = Shipped. How Square Enix sells more is that retails sell out and order more so the 3 weeks will tell

[DillyDilly]

The Conan & Frodo effect

[vikingland1]

Middle earth entourage 🙂😆

Seriously though, I'm really enjoying this game. 15 hrs so far and I'm still on chapter 3.

[FullmetalRoyale]

I'm nine hours, on chapter two. :)
At some point last night I really started digging it. Wait mode makes the difference to me.
I still am worried about how the whole thing will hold up, but I'm enjoying the gameplay loop. They weren't kidding about needing to watch the Brotherhood anime, and Kingsglaive, though. There's barely been any context outside of that. But it is early, yet.

*Ive read criticisms about how doing hunts are extremely repetitive. I don't disagree with that interpretation, but when I was telling my friend about it, I realized that hunts really supplement the old grinding aspect of role playing games.
In classic Final Fantasy, I'm running around outside of the starter town, fighting the same few variations of monsters, trying to get stronger. In XV, they added some depth to that very basic gameplay loop by having you talk to someone, giving you a specific target(or targets), letting you prepare with food(buffs), and returning to the contract giver to verify the kill. When I looked at the hunts in that way, I started enjoying the gameplay loop, like I previously stated.

[MoveTheGlow]

Awesome! The game deserves this level of sales, it's extremely enjoyable to play! Especially just for exploration/quests, etc. - honestly, by this point I could hardly care at all about the story.

[jaycptza]

I know right? I am enjoying it I only played like 2 hours I will settle in on the weekend

[Razrye2]

Well deserved. I'm really enjoying this game.

[theshredded]

Cheers! this means that people are frikin thirsty for "good" genuine Japanese games outside of Japan and not just full western inspired games like Dark Souls and MGS.

[FernDiggidy]

Great news!

[PlayableGamez-]

Suck it haters!

[feraldrgn]

Call of Duty also sells rather well.
So did FFXIII, in fact that was the fastest selling title in the franchise at that time also.

[PlayableGamez-]

FFXV is getting uncessary hate. It's sad because people want to see this game flop.

[jaycptza]

Yes but XIII was kinda shitty to be honest

[andrewsquall]

Shipped 5 million, not sold 5 million. Bad translation and too many websites (and CLEARLY people, like on here) jumping the gun http://www.gamespot.com/art...

To put it into perspective for you Fallout 4 SHIPPED, that's shipped, 12 million units for launch day. Again, a lot of people going nuts over something that simply is not a big deal at all.

Suck it lovers!

[Chexs1990]

Dude, let people be happy if they wanna be happy. Even shipped, Square still earns revenue. I know that GameStop Pays for the shipments they get, so it's still impressive for a game which doesn't necessarily appeal to the mainstream audience.
Fallout has a much broader audience to begin with, which makes it a terrible comparison. I could just as easily compare Fifa with FFXV in that manner of logic.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

You're truly a sad and pathetic little f**k you know that. Stores don't get copies for free so that's sold to square Enix they sold 5 million copies which I'm sure they are happy about just like people in here are happy the game turned out good and that it's selling well. Maybe one day you will amount to something that's a big deal but until that day comes don't worry about what people consider a big deal

[TheColbertinator]

Wooo finally arrived

[sk8ofmnd]

I would have rather had kindom hearts 3 or ff7 remake. We will prob get ff15x2 before either of those games. This gen is seriously lacking in the rpg genre this gen.

[SublimeStylee]

Ok

[Exvalos]

Thank you all to everybody that helped support ff15, 5 million to go and ff16 is basically guaranteed, this is crazy fastest selling game in the franchise

[cartoonx1]

actually there is no selling reported on this article, its SHIPPED., yea amazing but fallout 4 was reported more numbers shipped thn this. so unless we know what actual sold number its not really impressive considering 10+ hours development/delays.

[cash_longfellow]

Dang!! I am 12 hours in so far...such a fantastic game! I think we can officially squash the idea of this being the last Final Fantasy game with these sales numbers.

[Puertorock77]

Damn 5 million copies already. Beast mode.

[mezati99]

console Japanese RPGs are very much STILL alive

[kevnb]

I knew it was going to do well, the marketing has been spot on and the game is good, everything else that has come out recently just doesnt have the same sort of buzz.

[Lionalliance]

Haha, haters be dammed!
So Happy this game is doing so well!
I love it, is fun and entertaining!

[Stuppe]

They deserve it, the game is SO good. the attention to detail is quite something.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Damn, that impressive. Congratz to the team, their 10 year journey finally over.

[InTheZoneAC]

I've played a little so far, definitely different than what I expected in terms of being open world, but I like it. I'm hoping we get more fantasy and less realism later in the game, this was my biggest concern when I first saw the announcement trailer.

I did play that stupid arcade game for about 30-45 minutes, got to 1,000,000 on the first and only try, but also lost one fo the 4 heroes in a way I shouldn't have as I didn't realize switching with very low health destroys that hero(was hoping for a hidden trophy to unlock or something lol)

[Segata]

Title is wrong it's shipped not sold

[Sm3000]

Gotdamn, ok!

[PhoenixUp]

Never doubt this mega franchise. It'd be hilarious if FFXV has higher first week sales than CoD: IW

Final Fantasy XV is being the fastest selling game in the franchise’s history is expected when you accumulate 10 years worth of pre-orders

[trooper_]

Can't wait for my copy.

[feraldrgn]

It's not really surprising considering it was a worldwide launch.
Apparently it's shipped, not sold through to consumers?

[DialgaMarine]

I'm willing to bet that at least 4.25 million of those are on PS4. Huge win for both PS4 and SE.

[Segata]

First you make a guess with no basis then congratulate as if it happened. I am going to break the news to you. 5 million is not sold to consumers. This is 5 million shipped to retailers not sold.

[DialgaMarine]

My Statement comes from FF sales history between PS and XB.

[Irishguy95]

Wait and see.

Lots of nintendo gamers went to PS1
Lots of PS2 gamers went to Xbox 360
Lots of the Xbox 360 players went to Ps4.

A long time since Ps1 era. Old time gamers and fans of FF have jumped around!

[DialgaMarine]

Yeah, but this is Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy always sells way better on PS platforms.

[Nucler100]

Sheeessssshhhh

[plmkoh]

I bought it because we were provided with quality drama for 10 years.

[ShaunCameron]

So much for the FF franchise being dead.

[King_Lothric]

I was really hoping to have a good FF game at last. I was a huge fan of the series but could not stand pink Final Fantasy with Lightning character.

Can't wait to received my copy.

[Mr Marvel]

I've put this near the top of my Christmas list, so hopefully my fiancee gets it for me. ;)

[Neoprime]

BOO!

[Ulf]

OMG. If this triggers a new quality JRPG avalanche, the gaming world will be a magical place again!

It's my dream to shelve all my old consoles and say "oh well, I'll never need these again, now that I got too many great JRPGs to finish in the next decade". I've literally played them all, outside of NIS stuff, which I despise. ;-) RPGs is literally the only thing that keeps them around, for me.

[Fkhalf16]

still waiting for my copy to arrive.

[MADGameR]

Thats mostly because of the Final Fantasy VII Remake announcement.

[oof46]

I hope this sells well so we can have more. I may be in the minority, but I wish we could go back to the old style FFs. The style they ditched after IX. To paraphrase Jeff Cannata: I miss the whimsy.

[hahaha]

Well deserved.

[lastking95]

And ppl say milked games are on decline.

[DAEMONIFEAR]

Turn based is what turns me off about these kinds of games!

[MultiConsoleGamer]

No surprises here. It's an amazing title. One of the best entries in the series.

[Brohan]

Just bought the game for my Xbox and I'm loving every minute of its release. It's truly the best FF I've played in years

[PizzaSteve]

Seems the long wait was worth it at the end. Will past 10m definitely and maybe 15m lifetime.

[Gatsu]

Awesome

[Nexus530]

Great news. Loving it so far.

[chris235]

just when are they going to start adding the digital sales to their figures? it totally beats me. counting digital sales is one of the easiest tasks. you can write a script for that. then add this number to the poor sales of the retail versions and you got the real numbers. but no. i guess this would all be way too convenient.