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SquareEnix Confirm Final Fantasy XII, Sales Figures

Posted by simoniker on from the kingdom-fantasy-quest-xiv dept.

Thanks to the Gaming-Age messageboard conglomerate for pointing out a new investor relations press conference (Japanese text only) held today in Japan by SquareEnix. They announced that Final Fantasy XII is intended to ship within the fiscal year in Japan - still no screenshots or details, though. Kingdom Hearts 2 is still having its license negotiated, so won't be out soon. But 9 titles should ship in the US from SquareEnix this fiscal year, including Final Fantasy X-2, which has already sold almost 2 million copies in Japan, and a mystery, solitary Playstation 1 title (another Final Fantasy remake?) The company also gave sales figures for their online title, Final Fantasy XI, which has sold 340,000 copies, and currently has 250,000 subscribers, even ahead of its Western release.

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  1. 250k? by th3space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If that number holds up, then maybe there really is a future for MMORPGs on consoles...I just wonder if they'll get comparable stats in the States.

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  2. Why the oldies? by suineg · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I have seen enough remakes of the first few FF games to last a lifetime. Honestly how hard would it be to fix up FF7. Just redo the movies and put it on one DVD and then add some bonus content.

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  3. Well, sorta... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The PSOne version of Final Fantasy I+II were actually simple ports of the previously-updated WonderSwan Color versions of the game. Basically, Square had already gone through the effort of updating the graphics and gameplay when they ported the two games to the WSC, so porting that to the PSOne was pretty much no effort for them. I think redoing the music and the English translation were the big efforts. The PSOne ports were done as a chance to get some easy money since the games were pretty much done already.

    However, Final Fantasy III has not yet been updated for the WSC, or any other system for that matter. There were rumors that Square was working on it, but they were about as promising as this rumor is ("Logically, it will happen"). If Square was going to port FFIII to the PSOne, they'd need to put forth a lot more effort to make it look and play like the Origins versions did. Which I doubt would be worth it for them since it'll be a budget release on a "dead" platform.

    Basically, Square probably doesn't have an easy-to-port version of the game lying around to make it as worthwhile as it was for the previous games.