Square Enix Insists Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Hasn't Been the PS5 Sales Disaster It's Been Painted As | Push Square
For some reason, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has been painted as a spectacular sales failure by both the media and fans. As far as we can tell, a chunk of this narrative stems from Square Enix’s reluctance to provide sales updates on the title, but we suspect there’s also bitterness from those who feel it should have launched as a multiformat game.
The truth is that, per Circana sales data as of November 2024, the acclaimed RPG was the 15th best-selling game of the year in the United States – and the only exclusive to appear on the list. It’s not the disaster it’s been painted as.
And speaking with IGN Brazil, as translated by Google, bigwig Yoshinori Kitase confirmed as much, stating his company is “confident and happy we are reaching a certain level of sales”.
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Not a flop, then, but he did caveat this by adding that “with the modernity of games we cannot be exclusive to a single platform” and that “we need to offer this game to as many players as possible”.
We suspect that means the third instalment in the series will probably launch simultaneously on PC, in addition to potentially Nintendo Switch 2 and even Xbox as well. But it’ll all depend on the contracts Sony has signed with the publisher.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is coming to PC on 23rd January, and we’re sure there’ll be much handwringing over its sales performance on the platform. If it does well, then some will argue it should have launched there all along; if it fails to meet expectations, then those same people will point out the period of timed exclusivity killed its chances.
Either way, the discourse over Final Fantasy’s strong but generally overanalysed sales will rumble on.
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