Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Sales Have Dropped By Around 90 Percent In Japan
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has been the talk of the town of late, what with it being a sequel to one of the most highly-regarded and exciting projects in the series so far. While it's likely that the game has sold like hotcakes in the West, it seems like the same can't be said in Japan, as Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth sales have apparently dropped by a pretty whopping 90 percent since launch.
This is according to a new report from Famitsu (translated by InsiderGaming), which claims Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's total sales are currently sitting at 287,138 after two weeks on store shelves. That's pretty standard for a PS5 exclusive in Japan, given the system has a much lower adoption rate in the country due to the dominance of the Nintendo Switch, but what isn't particularly common is that 262,656 of these sales were actually in the first week of launch.
That means only 24,482 copies were sold in the game's second week, which is a very surprising, roughly 90 percent drop. It's worth noting that these numbers are strictly for the physical version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, so don't really paint the full picture, but it's fairly surprising nonetheless.
Final Fantasy does have a history with dodgy sales numbers in Japan lately, with Final Fantasy 16 also reportedly dealing with a similarly surprising drop in sales back when the title first launched.
Of course, there are a few determining factors for the drop, one of them being the fact that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a sequel. You'll struggle to find a direct sequel that has sold better than the original game, and the game itself is a PS5 exclusive which also never sell as well as third-party titles. All that combined, you can begin to see why the sales dropped so sharply, and very similarly to Final Fantasy 16 to boot.
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