With the upcoming release of Final Fantasy IX on the PC, we decided to go ahead and take a look at the sales of all Final Fantasy games on Steam. After all, Square Enix has embraced the PC platform, so time to see whether the rumoured Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy XV are worth – financially – coming to the PC.
The most popular Final Fantasy game on Steam is undoubtedly Final Fantasy VII. Final Fantasy VII has sold one million copies on Steam, meaning that there is a market for its upcoming Remake. Question now is whether Square Enix will be able to offer a proper port and not one that is plagued with performance issues and bugs.
The second most popular Final Fantasy game on Steam is Final Fantasy XIII, followed by Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy XIV. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD has sold 100K copies, while Final Fantasy XIII-2 has sold 276K copies. And the recently released Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII has sold 61K units.
Do note that most of the recently released Final Fantasy games on the PC are mere console ports. Yes, Square Enix has added some Steam Achievements, however it did not put a lot of effort into them. Whether these sales figures returned a profit remains to be seen.
From the looks of it, there is a market for both Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy XV. And while we’re certain that both of these titles will find their way on Steam, we are kind of wondering whether their PC versions will be better optimized than Lighting Returns: Final Fantasy XIII PC.
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wtf is with you people an ff7?yea i played it then moved on.i cant wait for them to charge you for a he remake $30 per episode..lol and you will pay for it.
this is code for : yeah i’m getting it too.
well have fun paying x4 what the game is worth.they are counting on you stupidity.
I got 7 and 8. I’m actually kinda disappointed with how poorly 7 has held up through the years, but 8 is still amazing. BTW ff7 is my favorite game all time so I’m not bashing, just being real.
Not half bad for one game that everyone has played (and is widely available) and another that was widely considered a terrible port as well as a terrible game. Imagine if they made a good port of a good game…
With those type of sales figures it pretty much confirms that Final Fantasy 15 will come to PC aswell.
FFXV doesn’t look like I will like it much, scrapping the previous faster combat system, boy band and replacing the cool strong headed princess/love interest with some whiny rubbish regular pure hearted thing. All my excitement for it died when the new guy took over and turned into some stereotypical garbage.
XIII-3 aka Lightning Returns is a better game than 13, and probably one of the best jrpg I have played in a long while. Hopefully they will make more games like it in the future.
Silly me helped it back there! haha!
Funny the first news I see about FF7 remake in quite awhile is that its already selling like crazy, which isn’t surprising. I still remember seeing the commercial for this game for the PS1 and thinking “Omgwtfbbq” (I was ahead of my time) then when I saw the gameplay at a friends house, and subsequently my first JRPG, I wondered “WTF IS THE GAME I SAW ON TV?”. Needless to say I’m not a fan, but I’m glad they remastered this for the newer platforms so fans can enjoy.
I recently bought Final Fantasy XIII glad to be apart of those numbers 🙂
just play it. when a game is good the graphics became good too… I played FF7 on 2013, when I start I was (WTF is that), when I finish I was (that the best game I’ve played in my life!!!!)… Now when I see the starting video of FF7 I just love it (old graphic too).
gameplay is not really dated… just try to play shadowrun dragonfall (a modern turn-based rpg)… you can see that is only different not dated.