Sales estimates on PC are often overinflated. I say this @PodcastNow – multiplatform releases don’t = higher sales. Ask yourself why major 3rd party platforms don’t receive 15 million in sales routinely.

Also, FF16 is lame.

It was great I loved every minute on PC but I will say those side quests were oof! 😅 Best FF in a long time

DQ3 is crushing FFXVI on Steam, wow

They need to patch it for PS5 Pro. Full 4k/60 gaming

Well that what happens when you don’t put games in all platforms day 1

I think we have a depressing reality that not as many people care about Final Fantasy IP anymore

I also dont think Kingdom Hearts is a strong IP anymore either

High production jrpgs I fear will probably not make a good return in this day and age

Jrpg devs shd probably stick to much lower budget releases

It’s because SE lost faith consumers after their failed experiments with FF13 (the two unasked-for sequels), the garbage launch of FF14 due to their own pride, and the mess that was FF15 being incoherent and a waste of time. As well, these angry neckbeard millennials throw a huge temper tantrum with each new mainline release if it doesn’t perfectly match whichever FF they first played.

We have the first competent FF released in over 15 years and all the biased millennial lies and outrage convinced millions to second-guess their purchase. Lying about performance, story, and gameplay.

The combat in the Final Fantasy 7 games is better. The combat in Final Fantasy 16 sucks.

Game story and music is great the combat just is repetitive and boring and the enemys are tanks and damage sponges, limit break feels powerless, every boss needs that stagger gage dropped makes every fight feel the same.

But the combat is the problem not too mention the game resolution looks like a ps4 game

Why isn’t it selling? Cause ppl already saw the game for what it is and save them $70 by waiting a year. If they release it on all platforms, SE wouldn’t have this problem. I wanted to play it myself. When it went to PS5 only, I lost interest. I still have the demo on my Steam library and I haven’t even opened it yet.

I’m not buying it until it goes into deep sale…you were a bunch of greedy fucks that took a PlayStation deal then took your sweet ass time porting these games to PC… The hype has died down and I feel like you’ve been a asshole by purposely denying me the ability to play at launch.

It didnt sell well cause its not the type of game pc players are into. Pc,console and mobile players play different games. It wont sell on x box either just because they dont lije buying games they expect everything in gamepass

As a lifelong final fantasy fan, I didn’t buy it. I heard about how it’s severely lacking in RPG mechanics, and is way more of an action game than an RPG.

So I’m just not interested.

Why isn’t selling? Because it is a paint-by-numbers rpg, repetitive combat gobbledy-gook crap game. Square is such trash nowadays.

There is a bunch of much better games on PC. With only the Playstation library to choose from the game was more attractive.

Because PC is not a magic solution, Steam is not really that much bigger than PS, they are very comparable markets. And PC player are very specific about what games they may buy, they have like a type, online multiplayer tends to be predilected.

The reason it’s underperforming on PC is because it’s over a year old and needs a 3080/4070 to play at 1080p 60fps

PC users are probably waiting for a good sale, or they already watched playthroughs and moved on. Or any number of other reasons I suppose.

I will likely pick it up at some point, but I have a long list of rpgs to play already and I refuse to pay $70 for a revokable license. Nope.

I think they are too corperate to make really good games anymore, I think the best proper new RPG they have done was Dragon Quest XI but even that just had the usual tropes without much soul or charm, with the difficulty nerfed. They are milking their IP’s rather than making great games

Good game… But SE made it a action game not a rpg or arpg.

Bc its not a real final fantasy game

I bought on PC and absolutely loving it. Only 20 hours in but having a great time with it. Visually stunning with awesome combat and a great story so far.

The FF7 remake was on PS4 and later PS5, and later, the PC sold less than Ghost on Tshuhima, a new IP that was just on PS4 and later PS5 during a pandemic. This is more than just exclusivity on one platform. Their games do not have legs. Also, The Ghost of Tsushima came out on PC 4 years later and outperformed very FF late port, too, while being blocked in several countries due to PSN for multiplayer.

Specs are really high, which limits the player base also its too late. Me however bought it day one on playstation

Games in general are starting to underperform. We are killing the industry with all the negativity that affects us from supporting games. Prior to everyone being on social media with a voice, we all tried and enjoyed games.

PC players don’t pay full price for old playstation games. They are waiting for the steam sale.

its the typical curse of exclusivity for a story driven game and the curse of poor optimization. It takes a year minimum for the Pc port to come out because Sony doesnt want to do ps4/5 and pc exclusivity and then release the game on xbox later. and the game is more narrative focused with not much replayability (locking a harder difficulty behind ng+ thats still too easy isnt adding replayability when most likely people already did all the side content on their NG run, and most of that side content isnt even fun or engaging). So anyone that was interested in playing the game either had a ps5 or bought one to play it. and the others got tired of waiting and just watched it since the experience watching and playing isnt that different with a game like this.

Lastly the optimization is pretty wack on pc. The full game runs better supposedly, but for anyone playing the demo and getting awful performance on a mid range system and even people with high end systems getting unlucky in the roulette wheel that poorly optimized games are means they have no reason to buy the game even if they want to because they can only expect to get the same performance from the demo.

a good chunk of pc players can’t even run it at 30
people with rtx cards aren’t the majority

Well issue is that when game was releasing for PS5 it had huge marketing campaign behind it. There was hype for it and people were curious about it.

When it was releasing on PC only people that really wanted to play it knew about it. Also the release date was unfortunate because it was sandwiched between other great games.

I truly believe that making it PS exclusive hurt it’s sales performance on PC.

Most si gle players sell more on consoles if they are not pooular in China, like sh2 wich is onky 22% on P. And elden ring which is 29% PC….still, 300,000 PC copies is $10 million dollars. Which is still good.

Because we already got it on PS5 and FF’s playerbase owns consoles.

Sadly, we have to admit the market for video games is not as big as we want. Outer Wilds, a game praised by so many, only has peak player number of 8000 on Steam. The Xbox and Playstation execs have softly pointed out the ceiling for console unit sales.

I’m going to be completely honest. I watched the prologue of the game and I really liked how the story started. I was so curious that I finally watched the story on youtube videos. I wasn’t going to wait a year or buy a ps5 to find out what happened. I was kind of disappointed overall with the direction the game went in at the end. Anyway, by the time it came out on PC I completely lost interest.

Because its not worth to buy

Lock the door on their ass Sony! Stay out in them streets, I told you nobody wanted you, you’re not as attractive as you were years ago😂😂now get off my porch and clean your face. Good luck out there…

way too late to release pc alot of them just watched full playthrough from any youtubers the game is good is just way too late and just opening youtube back then can already spoil you from just the thumbnail of the vid

xbox/pc gamers prefer pirating games then buying them fact..

The game sold around 6-7 million copies on console. WTF are we making videos on its sales for? Pc is never the main audience for a final fantasy game. Japan is PlayStation and mobile. That’s it. They give a shit about pc. The only thing to talk about is why Square thought that 6-7 million was not enough.

IMO the game not meeting their expectations, is not because it’s not on Xbox. Eidos, Crystal Dynamics and IOI released their games on the NES if they could and Square still would complain they never met their sales expectations. Square sold these studios because of that. It’s always the same story since the late 2000’s early 10’s.

Not worth the hard drive space. Most people roll with a PlayStation pc combo. Still have full access to Xbox.

Reporting sales figures before Christmas is stupid.

I am an adult with disposable income. I have wanted this game since the moment I saw it. And I was always going to get it on PC. As a PC gamer I don’t buy anything brand new. I refuse to pay $70 or $50. The biggest sale of the year is always Christmas.

Port sucks. 3080 13700k and can barely stay above 60fps

I don’t care about other people in my eyes this game’s story and characters were a masterpiece. Sure some gameplay could have fine tuning but this is the dark story I want in a jrpg. Something different from the vibrant stories that are always there. I love all kinds of jrpg stories but I love this refreshing change. This game is one of my favorite games of all time.

They said exclusivity was to blame. No, the game being mediocre is.

I’d have bought it, it’s still on my wishlist, but right now, there is simply no time to play it. We just had some great releases like Silent Hill 2 and Stalker 2 is coming next week.
There is always the Pile of Shame that needs to get some love once in a while 😀
FF16 soon I guess, haha. I’m still hyped to finally play it. Coming from FF14 I’m curious to see what Yoshi-P has done here 🙂

Personally, I love FF16. It’s one of the best games to come out of this gen.

As a big fan of both FF and DMC series, FF16 hit all the right notes from a game that combined everything I love about the two series.

It’s sad that it did not sell as much as they wanted it, too, but it is a love letter to action games made for me, and I’m glad it exists

FFXVI didn’t sell well on PS5 because it’s a bad game… sure, it has cool graphics, but the narrative, dialogues, character development and world building are mediocre.

This is noy about beign available on multiple platforms, it’s about wether the game is good or not.

The biggest problem is that this game isn’t great. ESPECIALLY the side quest. Holy crap….

You gotta compete harder for pc players attention. We have a multitude of games to play. I didn’t even know this game came out. Where was the marketing? Also with Astro bot no doubt ps wanted it to do better. To make big budget games they need the big bucks. Not 1.5m in sales. Sure it did well but it needs to get more sales for Sony to want to do other games like it. This is why sky cooper hasn’t been released.

This game is good. It’s a shame that it’s not doing as well as other games.

because no one asked for this as we wait for 7’s finally. They do not need to do anymore until all the past titles are str8

Not releasing a game on all platforms at the same time and having cross-platforming (if applicable) is always going to undercut profit. Not sure why studios keep doing this.

Yep just like ff14 dropping game to cp wat abt the long going fans??

No a bad game by any mean, but it’s not what I wanted from this franchise.

I’ll get it eventually but I have too many back log and want to just wait for steam sale. I already played it on ps5 so I am not in a hurry. The game is ok but not the best.

Should’ve done it on day1

it late already … should not be ps5 excusive from the begin

This isn’t a mystery. It’s a combination of things. One, if you’re going to make PC gamers wait a year to play a game, we’re more than happy to wait even longer for a good discount. Two, we have all of gaming history at our fingertips. We don’t feel the need to jump on the next game that comes out immediately. Three, games don’t have expiration dates, they’re just as fun at release as they are years later. We’ll get around to it when we feel like it. Four, like in most cases with PS exclusives, these games are only masterpieces to console gamers. You guys overhype them and treat them like they’re the second coming. To PC gamers, they’re just more games added to the pile. Five, and it’s related to number one, if you don’t include us in the launch hype then we’re not going to suddenly be hyped for it years later. The developers need to stop acting like they don’t want our money and then being surprised when we don’t want to give it to them.

Because PlayStation fans are the real Final Fantasy fans. If you’re a FF fan you have a PlayStation, simple as that.

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1. its performance was horrendous on pc.
2. the game itself is not a good final fantasy.
3. its too long and drawn out
4. people just dont care.

square should just wrap it up. atlus is killing them as jrpg kings!

Kingdom hearts isn’t a valuable IP half the ip belongs to Disney and kingdom hearts as a series sells at a 6 million range. Kingdom hearts is equal to kirby in terms of sales if you count profit it’s closer to fire emblem.

Most of the PS5 games released later on PC have not sold a huge amount. The only one is Spider-Man Remastered if I’m not mistaken.

I played FFXVI when it came out on PS5, and got really burnt out with it late-game because of the over-abundance of sidequests by that point. That’s the main reason I had no desire to double dip on Steam. I strongly believe PC sales would’ve looked at least a little better if it had just come out day 1 with the PS5 version. I know I would’ve preferred to play it on PC if it was available at the time.

All of you comments are stupid. 😂😂😂 so now you guys change your tone? First, if were on PC it will sold better. Now you guys saying “well if it launch day 1….” 😂 sureee. It didn’t sell because it not a fucking turn base. Get it in your head.

Let’s see; 1/3 of PC gamers are Russian and they’re in a war and 1/3 of PC gamers are Chinese and they are in a recession. Western PC gamers are a snobby bunch who cannot comprehend that 2/3 of their team are living in totalitarian countries with greater priorities then buying games.

It’s the best Final Fantasy ever!!!

It would have sold more if the game came out on PC for launch. PlayStation exclusivity was a mistake

Actually great news there Alex. lol, Maybe now SE will stop making garbage FF games that’s a clones of DMC.

Because people hated it on ps5. Pc players know ball about the game. This shows it’s not systems, it’s the series. Stop blaming system, blame a series that doesn’t reconnect anymore

Massive spoilers in comment massive dislike.

The game came out more than a year after the PS release. People who wanted to play it – either did it or watched a playthrough and moved on.

Maybe because the entire game seemingly lacks 50% of what makes FF great?

TALKING ABOUT BEATING A DEAD HORSE, are we still talking about FF16 sales number ???
FF16 doing alright by now FF16 i guess sold around 6m to 7m copies, on both PS5 and PC… WE TALKING ABOUT 1 YEAR OLD GAME VS NEW GAME RELEASE
Dragon age the veilguard all time peak number on steam around 90000 compare that to FF16 around 27500 all time peak…,BUT FF16 SOLD 3M on PS5 IN THE FIRST 3 DAYS, not even dragon’s dogma and FF7 Rebirth sold that…

Sold 3m on ps5 and square wasn’t happy lol i gald it flop 😂😂😂let pc save you square 🎉🎉🎉

Unfortunately, my opinion on the game has only soured more as time passes. It has great cutscenes but that’s about it.

“Game would sell so much better if it was Multiplat” And yet we have another example of this narrative proving to be nothing more than a complete load of crap.

350 Million PC Gamers in the world and y’all couldn’t even get it to 1 Million Copies sold? Yet have the nerve to clown PS Players for FF16 selling 3 Million Copies on PS5? Hypocrites.

well… ppl gonna miss out on a masterpiece then.

I didn’t buy it on PC, I platinumed it on PS5 lol

Despite the fantastic mods, it is still not selling well?

Square-Enix always over Does it. We want 10 Million & the Game only does 5 Million. It Failed. Go to the Sky limitless How Dare you get above the Clouds only.

Game sucks

Clive dies at the end what’s the point