Last Fantasy XVI Reaches 3 Million Bodily Shipments And Digital Copies Offered

  Last Fantasy XVI hit PlayStation 5 solely <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/the-game-awards-2022/2022/12/08/final-fantasy-16-gets-june-release-date" goal="_blank" rel="noopener">final week on June 23</a>, and fewer than every week later, Sq. Enix has introduced it has shipped and digitally offered 3 million copies.&nbsp;

It’s a considerably odd metric to parse out as a result of copies shipped and offered aren’t the identical. For instance, a shipped copy may nonetheless be sitting on a recreation retailer shelf, whereas a digital copy offered is cash made. Nonetheless, between bodily shipped copies of FFXVI and digital variations bought by gamers, Sq. Enix says it has reached 3 million copies offered. 

We’re delighted to announce we’ve shipped and digitally offered 3 million copies of Last Fantasy XVI on PlayStation 5. Thanks to your help! #FF16 pic.twitter.com/8YGfo1RXyV

— FINAL FANTASY XVI (@finalfantasyxvi) June 28, 2023

That’s an amazing launch for any recreation, particularly one unique to PlayStation 5. Nonetheless, its predecessor, Last Fantasy XV, which it Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2016, stays the collection’ best-selling recreation at launch. When FFXV hit PlayStation and Xbox seven years in the past, its day-one shipments and digital gross sales exceeded 5 million on launch day (thanks, Polygon). FFXVI has hit 3 million in roughly six days, it seems. FFXV additionally reached 6 million world gross sales sooner than another entry within the Last Fantasy franchise; now we wait to see if FFXVI beats that.

The earlier new Last Fantasy launch (excluding this yr’s pixel remaster assortment) earlier than FFXVI was final yr’s Stranger of Paradise: Last Fantasy Origin, a spin-off title set on the earth of the primary Last Fantasy. Stranger of Paradise had the fourth lowest launch for a Last Fantasy spin-off recreation in Japan (thanks, Eurogamer), simply above a couple of spin-off Wii titles, so at the moment’s FFXVI numbers stand in stark and spectacular distinction to that. Thoughts you, I like Stranger of Paradise – I even obtained the Platinum trophy for it on PlayStation 5 – nevertheless it’s clear gamers are extra keen to point out up for the mainline Last Fantasy video games in comparison with the collection spinoffs. 

In line with recreation gross sales analyst Benji-Sales, FFXVI’s launch numbers additionally are available in a tad bit beneath 2020’s Last Fantasy VII Remake, which reached 3.5 million in three days. 

For extra, learn Sport Informer’s Last Fantasy XVI evaluate to study my ideas on the sport after which this opinion piece about why we love the Lively Time Lore characteristic a lot. After that, examine how we predict Last Fantasy XVI will get localization proper, after which try our fight ideas information and newbie’s ideas information. And if that’s not sufficient, we now have greater than two dozen options in regards to the behind-the-scenes improvement of Last Fantasy XVI in our cowl story hub for the sport. 

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