Looks like Yoshi's decision to make ff16 a PS5 exclusive was the right one after all
Looks like Yoshi's decision to make ff16 a PS5 exclusive was the right one after all
Looks like Yoshi's decision to make ff16 a PS5 exclusive was the right one after all
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Why does every shill always post a picture of their game while they shill? I swear the pictures are like a requirement
>FF16 shill
Post the gameplay so we can laugh.
You do know they're talking about every ff combined right?
He didn't, but now he does.
XVI is the mainline that’s contributed the least amount of sales to that number
Doesn't the Final Fantasy IP have like 50 games?
It took them 50 games to finally reach GTA5 sales??
GTA5 has been out for 10 years.
and Final Fantasy for like 35 years
Predictable response. Final Fantasy is a normal, high selling video game series. GTA and CoD are outliers.
No wonder you people get called cultists.
I'm not defending GTA, and especially GTA 5 here, both are shit series
Final Fantasy as a franchise has existed since your dad was a teenager.
I don't think taking 36 years to do what a single game did in 10, is the win you're expecting anon.
>suddenly
And that makes it better? Ff is like 40y old.
>10 > 36
weeb education, everybody
gtav has sold more than all of mario kart
more than all of sonic the hedgehog
more than all of nba 2k
more of all than dragon quest, halo
what's the point of this comparison then ?
I can't see it in any positive way , there is definitely some wicked motives behind the title
The point is to jerk off over how much money Rockstar makes.
>how much money Rockstar makes.
Considering they think that rdr2 was failure despite 20m sales, and literally dropped support and canceled already promised content for online?
I'm not so sure anymore
>what is the point of a click bait article
1 out of 40 people have played GTA5. The odds of finding someone who has played GTA5 on earth is better than finding someone who has had sex on Ganker.
how the frick? seriously, how the actual frick is gta this popular?
how does it compare to pokemon?
It provides people with what they want I suppose. What do they want? GTA. I don't know how else to break this down further, but someone with greater insight might.
>As of March 2023, the Pokémon franchise has sold over 480 million units worldwide.
It's easily the biggest JRPG franchise in the world with getting 480million in 26 years.
It's not, if it was ACTUALLY popular they would release them more often
Americans love playing out their pent up aggressions through guns and violence
>JRPG series doesn't have the same widespread audience as GTA
woah who would have expected
Yeah I do expect when it's Franchise sales, which include, main line, spin offs, remasters, remakes, MMOs, expansions, ports, re-release bundles, to do idk. Better than 180million in 36 years, given how much people hype the franchise up??
You expected the general public to latch onto a series like FF more than GTA?
I'm thinking you should spend some (more) time outside.
Maybe just don't make a bad JRPG series. It's that easy.
Final Fantasy used to be normie-core especially in the 90s. Then it all went down hill.
I don't think you understand the difference in video game demographics between the 90s and now
You do realize most FF purchases aren't from japan, right?
Well, he isnt wrong, what even sells like GTA?
Even more when most of GTA sales happen because of the online, no one gives a frick about gta campaigns.
The reason why GTA 6 is taking 35 years is exactly because they want to have the smoothest transition ever to a new online system
Losing their online playerbase would be a nightmare for Rockstar, it makes infinite money.
FF 16 isn't a JRPG though, it's an action game, so it should be able to compete with other popular action games, which unfortunatley it didn't.
Well, the mmo team is kinda moronic
I think that DMC5 is the most sold action game, and that shit sold less than FF15. So the idea that action games sell a lot is flawed.
Action game = + sales
Is something that never made sense. The genre is really "niche" overall in the AAA scenario.
>Doesn't the Final Fantasy IP have like 50 games?
>It took them 50 games to finally reach GTA5 sales??
You could say this for 99.999999% of the industry
FF is like top 5 biggest vidya franchises. Using that logic zelda is also a failure.
>Top 5 biggest vidya franchises.
Anon..
It's out sold by sims and Assassins Creed.
It's not even in the top 5 of Wikipedia's at least 100million copies list.
Yeah i got confused
FF is top 3 biggest japanese vidya franchises
And i forgot about things like the sims, lego and tetris.
Well technically according to wikipedia.
Those top 3 Japanese franchise would be, Mario/Supermario, Pokemon and Wii.
I feel like most journos dont consider Wii, but it's funny as frick.
I had no idea it sold 200m
Wii Sports did the heavy lifting with 80mill sold.
Rest of the Wii games brand ended up doing the rest.
Of course most people don't tend to consider minigame collections when it comes to sales.
Or take them into account when they were bundled with the console.
Most game journos do count console bundles tho. We've got proof of that with Sony games.
had no idea those lego games did so well. never heard anything about them besides the star wars ones
oh i guess it's not just licensed shit, i had lego island on PC back in the day but not sure if that was really a big seller. maybe just doing well from the volume of games churned out
Yeah it's not just the licensed stuff, but Lego games as a whole. And Lego's had a lot of games over the past 30 years.
Their licensed stuff tends to be the best sellers tho
People forget how GTA5 is the most sold videogame ever. Mostly because it's also a live service
FF was niche until 7 and lost momentum after X
GTA is a behemoth.
Beyond that, normalgays don't care about the series outside of nostalgia for 7, sometimes 6 or 10. They're just not interested in RPGs unless developed by Bethesda, CDPR or Bioware.
not every player likes 4 Black folk in a row or discount dmc, gta 5 was "san andreas 2" and the rp explotion makes it a golddigger alongside the online mtx too
>the whole 30+ games series sold as much as a single game
I'm not really impressed
Where are all people who said it flopped now?
Right here, and it did flop. SE doesn't consider it a success no matter what they say because if Tomb Raider 2013 was a disappointing launch at 3.4 million sold 10 years ago do you really think SE is proud of 3.1 million sold of a game 10 years later?
Tomb raider was multiplat
FFXVI is exclusive
What is the percentage contribution of the different games? I guess the new one is like a 3%
>counting the whole series
That's not really impressive.
>entire franchise sold as much as one game
>attributes this to one game out of like 50
>it's the worst one
>it's the worst one
No that's 13 followed closely by 15 then 1, 2 and 3 and then 16
>then 1
Opinion discarded.
FF sales peaked in the PS2 era with X it's only gone downhill from there
that is just blatantly false. It peaked at 7 and solidified a downslope. That shit was terrbile and was barely a FF game.
>no exploration
>no overworld
>airship is a menu
>shops all shit
>game designed so that it can never be failed
>signature weapon is the underwater sword but if you use it underwater, it heals all the enemies
X** solidified a downslope
>peaked at seven slop
stopped reading there
Those are numbers. You know how numbers work, anon? Numbie wumbies? Big numbies mean MORE! mmkay?
goyslop is good because number big :*~~)
>Posts a chart timestamped to 2005
That's pretty disingenuous, don't you think? I bet 14 is the actual #1, with 15 and 7 as runner-ups.
That shit clearly says 1988-2022. Good job, anon.
It's a screencap of a video going through 1988-2022 releases. It's on 2005 as evidenced by the year in top right and the timeline at the bottom
8 has more sales than 10?
These lists are all fricked up
But probably not
X, if you count the remaster collections that add X-2 with it, sold 20.8m copies.
>>no exploration
FFX has some of the most changes and secrets in cleared areas of any FF game to date.
Yeah when progressing through the story there isn't much exploration. Because they put it all behind in optional backtracking. And if you never engaged with any of it that's more of a you problem than a game problem.
FFX is great because it's full of weird stuff like that
Like in the first section of the game if you swim to the right you'll find one part of the ultima weapon, something you would be only able to backtrack to after dozens of hours.
>FFX is great
Opinion discarded
Your only option is to cope, or keep yourself locked to this place
To be honest, even here you'll have a hard time
It's kinda hilarious when the most souless and contrarian anons try to pick some of the most acclaimed or loved titles of some genres to act like they're smart. It's like when people go "Majora's mask and ocarina of time" ruined zelda. In FF's case it's 7 and 10.
Even here, the most jaded place on Earth, anons will call you a moron.
>some of the most acclaimed or loved titles of some genres
Kids for who it was their first game grew up and now praise their garbage on internet, nothing new
No one who played ff before liked X, but here we are
Same thing happened with farcry 2(everyone fricking hated it, but now hipsters on Ganker defending it) titan quest, pokemon bw and final fantasy 11
So now, you only having your echo chamber to back you up, doesn't help your case at all
Yeah, bro
Keep trying, but dont forget, dont leave this place.
If you never revisited and explored cleared areas then it's no wonder you didn't like the game.
entire thread is fricking cancer
Now how many of the best selling Franchise products, have the 7 tag on it?
Literally only 1, the original game. Most of the mainline titles have outsold the compilaton slop.
>The entire series, literally dozens of games.
>Selling as well as one GTA game.
That's not the flex you think it is, homosexual.
What flex? It's an indictment of this moronic industry.
Lmfao moron
>Looks like Yoshi's decision to make ff16 a PS5 exclusive was the right one after all
But this has nothing to do with that. They're talking about every FF entry cumulative sales numbers. Ff16 sold like dog shit on a hot summer day
It sold fine
I really didn't, compare it to other Playstation exclusives
>GTA 5 cumulative unit sales worldwide 2015-2023
>As of May 2023, Grand Theft Auto V has sold over 180 million units worldwide.
Take the metric how you want, but taking 36 years to do what GTA did with one game in 10, is laughable at best.
gta is Black folkhit for Black folk that everyone in america loves, ff is gay elves
of course the former would sell magnitudes more than the latter
Wasn't Final Fantasy a bigger franchise than GTA back then, what changed?
>what changed?
Ffx
I wouldn't be surprised if GTA 3, VC, SA and IV have all outsold whatever's the biggest selling FF game is, and they're all miniscule compared to GTA V
They all did.
GTA has been pretty damn big since 2. Most PC gamers had 2. When 3 came on console, it was similarly large.
It has always been fun to be a criminal in these games. One of the few games where you are a criminal in a story and a world organized in a way that is fun.
>since 2
Since 3. GTA1&2 were games that were widely known but hardly massive hits that everyone loved.
Yeah I guess that's fair. All I know is that everyone who was PC gaming (not that many people at the time) had GTA2 on their PC's. (This is out of people that I knew.)
>what changed?
Multiplatform
jap ego and 7thgen destroyed jap anus even capcom that managed to get up
>entire series sold as 1 (one) rockstar game
lol
>Yoshi-P's decision
Guarantee you that wasn't his call, but an upper level thing between Square executives and Sony.
He literally refuses to release 14 on xbox because he loves sony so much
Which is kinda sucks, because for this gen I decided to skip playstation consoles until they release games I'm interested in outside of des
>He literally refuses to release 14 on xbox
He doesn't make any of these decisions. He's a game director.
He's producer, not director
Literally his decision
He's both producer and director of XIV
I don't think you realize how top down Japanese companies are. Someone above him makes these calls, I almost dare guarantee that.
yoshi-p is on the board of directors. 14 not being on xbox probably has something to do with subscriptions, or other existing exclusivity deals
or they did the math and there really just isn't a demand
>or they did the math and there really just isn't a demand
fallout76 and teso literally only are around thanks to xbox money
I wasn't even talking about XBox really. I meant why they would've have developed for PS4 or PC as well.
>Final Fantasy SERIES
OP can't read
Pokegods.. I kneel.
Where is gta?
Mario's unsurprisingly at the top.
But the above list was purely eastern franchises, this is global franchises.
Ubigods.. I kneel.
Honestly it was pretty based of Ubisoft, renting out their IP to the small indie studio known as Square Enix for an Assassins Creed cameo.
God knows Final Fantasy needed the sales boost.
That tetris figure seems sketchy at best
how so?
Until at least first playstation, it sold on all consoles and always was popular
Same with columns(or whatever it was called)
Mobile game downloads are never tracked properly, and spread out across various apps as well
I kneel to Yoshi-P.
Now compare that to all the GTA games combined
Final Fantasy has like 50 games released over 35+ years, this is more of a commentary of how moronicly many copies gta sells if anything.
Why did GTA5 sell so good anywya? It's not even top 3 best GTA.
Because it was out on the market for longest and was on the 3 generations of consoles
GTA online is massive bait for both players and streamers
Also I'm sure they are very creative with how they count pc sales
I-it was supposed to fricking flop!
tendies don't care, it's been 20 years since a mainline FF game was on a nintendo console at release. it's mustards who are pissed the port got delayed
Oh boy but they do.
Dont know about that, chief....
Nintendo itself doesnt mind because they know how the Switch is a toaster, so they make deals with everything with lower specs, Nintendo probably does just as many exclusive deals with SE as PS. But a big part of tendies never got over FF7 or new mainlines not being on Switch.
i was gonna say the average underage Ganker poster doesn't even remember that FF used to be on nintendo consoles, but the average tendie on Ganker is probably 45 so you may be right
People heavily underestimate how old anons can be here. Even more when we talk in jrpg discussions.
And they dont need to be necessarily old enough to live in the same era that FF transitioned to PS, but just live the consequences of it.
Yeah
SE's relationship with Nintendo is probably the best it have been for the last 26 years.
The only thing keeping apart mainline FFs from Nintendo consoles is the console not being a cellphone. I can see SE doing some weaker games like Capcom did with MH rise in the future.
moron
13 is boring but barely passable
15 is shit and Versus died for it
16 is the worst in the franchise and shouldn't even be called FF
I won't defend 15, but outside of story, main protagonist, combat and hunting quests all being garbage without redeeming qualities. It unironically had soul and did 4 dudes on the road trip part great
Also it still felt like final fantasy world
GTA is the most popular video game IP in the world. Not talking about franchise sells. I'm talking about each new iteration of a GTA game gong forward will outsell any new game from another franchise easily.
I like how they have to dig around for strange metrics like these to avoid admitting their latest mainline game was a flop.
yeah beause the game would have sold less if it was available to more people
I swear snoys are literally moronic. I'd say they're baiting but considering they actually bought a ps5, their IQ is not high enough to pretend to be moronic.
I don't get it. Do you think the game sold more because it was available on less platforms? How does that make any sense at all?
Seeing this thread is interesting because i'm sure that OP was trying to be ironic and bait replies in some way, but the inability of Ganker anons to grasp sarcasm made them all believe he was being a champion for FF. lol
Someone needs to rape and murder whoever wrote that article. In what way is a game franchise of over 35 years comparable to a single release? Final Fantasy isn't nearly as popular as GTA, even though they are (were, esp 7-10) the sorts of games for me, and GTA is not
It's the type of article that adds nothing. They could so this shit with zelda, resident evil, monster hunter and everything that isnt mario,pokemon or assassins creed.
>amount
number
>GTA5 still selling
>yet it's shit compared to Saints Row 2
GTA isnt about single player experiences anymore, bro
It's legit a normie hub for people spend all day online stealing and driving cars while blowing up each other.
This is why while RDR2 sold well, it got forgotten fast as frick even when it's a Rockstar game.
Keep playing your stupid Nintendo Switch to death yoshitpiss
Don't own a switch. Just calling it how I see it homosexual. Keep crying about it
how do gtav sales compare to skyrim
uhh...Barry antis? Why is XV showing as the face of the franchise on Steam?
oof
i forget, is Barry a huge FFXV defender or hater? every post I see referencing him these days is vague shit that could be interpreted either way
At this point, we are gonna need a name for the 16 version of barry.
ENTER, JUAN
It took 16 Final homosexualries and 40 years to sell as much as 1 game from 2010
Holy kek
Could you list one game that sold more than the game from 2010, anon?
Minecraft
But enough about Zelda.
>reminder that a new copy of gta5 (plus its bundled in-game currency) is cheaper than that currency would be in the shop
>millions of addicted thirdies and browns just buy new copies over and over again because its the cheapest way to get gta-bucks
>this is of course, by design
all gta5 sales records are literally just cheating. if other live service games did this they would be billion sellers.
zoomers and their obsession with popularity over quality will be the death of the industry
and I guess that's a good thing
I don't get why GTAV is so popular. Is it mostly the online? I forced myself to finish that game back when it released. There were no advances from GTA4. No better tech, physics or mission design. Missions were mostly lame. Characters were so-so. All of that map but nothing interesting to do in it besides racing here and there. What the frick is the point? Felt like such a waste of potential. How do people remain engaged in that game?
Wait, the entire series sold as much as one fricking game? How does Square Enix cope?
is there really sex in the new final fantasy game?
No
Yes. The achievement you get after it is called "Become one".
This is the only webm of the game that has been posted so far.
I also noticed that the people in these threads never ever discuss any gameplay elements of the game, no discussion about builds, bosses, combos, tips, secrets, nothing. Only shills bragging about the "great" sale numbers.
YouTube is right there. Go watch some MAD compilations or something. https://youtu.be/mgOwE0UnpTY
>thread about sales
>nobody discussing gameplay
your iq is showing
>FF posters mostly talk about waifus and husbandos
Imagine my shock, almost like it was never a great rpg series and held up entirely by storygays and hyperfixaters on the characters
>waifus and husbandos
This game doesn't even have that lmao, not a single meme either unlike Stranger of Paradise, there's no organic discussion around this game because it's just that bland, just pure coping, fanboyism, and shilling.
Shills are tone deaf and stupid, the great sales numbers are a fricking joke to the Final Fantasy franchise
People use to celebrate, now it's dead
Square Enix about to be acquired by Sony real soon.
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So all 30 games combined were like 3 millions behind GTA V?