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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - Sales Crisis

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    [​IMG]Rob Fahey talks about the current sales crisis of Final Fantasy games on Gamesindustry:

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    Final Fantasy's sales crisis is also an identity crisis | Opinion

    Final Fantasy doesn't seem to know what it is or who it's for anymore - a much deeper problem for the franchise than platform exclusivity deals

    The news that Square Enix considers its two major Final Fantasy titles in the past year - Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - to have missed their sales targets won't be a surprise to many people in the industry. On the contrary, this outcome was so predictable that it's provoked all manner of exaggerated eye-rolling.

    Square Enix has form in this department, after all. Its most famous public lament for the under-performance of a key title (despite selling many millions of copies) was for Tomb Raider.

    But since then, this tactic has become a fairly standard part of its financial communications, leading many to believe that the company's internal sales estimates are insanely out of touch with reality.

    There's some validity to that claim - Square Enix doesn't generally seem to be very good at setting realistic targets for its games, and it's tempting to suggest that the problem is one of motivated reasoning.

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