FFXIV: Underwhelming PS4 Retail SalesFollow

Pssst... stop feeding the troll.

Are you talking to me? I never said anything about this game doing poorly. I only defended the OP in that the PS4 version appears to be selling incredibly poorly.

Are you talking to me? I never said anything about this game doing poorly. I only defended the OP in that the PS4 version appears to be selling incredibly poorly.

Not any for me. For as heavy as I am on the arrows, I'm light on the report button.

Genuine question on topic: Do you think it was a wise decision to allow free upgrades from the PS3 version? Sure, it helped their initial sales, but I can't help but think it's the primary reason why their PS4 sales are where they are, even given PS4/Sony's own problems.

I mean, the PS3, IMO, has a good bit of life left in it. I know I won't be able to afford to upgrade to a PS4 for a good while yet.

I think they should of not given free upgrades because it was obvious they were not going to sell very well and they needed all the sales they could get, as you can see from the news posts. This is a catastrophy for Square, an embarassing one.

PS4 FFXIV is a rather feeble conversion but I'd imagine it still cost them a lot of money to create, probably more than the meager sales gave them back. I would think the shareholders are watching over Yoshi closer than ever now, since he seems to be making some very poor business decisions.

Steam launch was a failure adding just over 2k players, and now a PS4 launch failure where they didn't even sell half as much as they expected.

Terrible.

Edited, May 4th 2014 3:41pm by preludes

Preludes posted over there before posting over here, so he probably just wanted more attention. Why indulge him?

Why would I post on another account when I can post on this one? Maybe it's your sock, you already said you had some "issues" or something..

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I request that this thread be locked as it isn't a thread designed to carry on a conversation and discussion about the sales of the PS4 copy of FFXIV. It is a thread designed to look at a small pidgin-holed size of the argument in order to bolster... something, I dunno. You still haven't really come out and clarified what it is you want out of all of this.

Seems like I missed a party when I was giving platelets and then eating Mexican for dinner today *hic*

So I actually know a bit more about this due to a sh*t-ton of research I've done lately. I gave a History of Final Fantasy panel at Athcon last night (and I'll probably be doing this panel at many other conventions since it's a really fascinating topic.)

The historical goal for a game to be successful for Square is 200,000 units sold. Their number for a guaranteed sequel is 400K units sold, which jives with the goal that Yoshi P had stated at the launch of ARR as their intended goal - instead of a sequel, that was the goal required by SE to get the green light for an expansion pack.

This isn't the number of subscribers, might you. Our resident trolls might care about that, but SE's criteria for a successful game when they were just Square was always units sold.

Considering SE hit that number five fold (assuming their 2 million number does not include beta players who ultimately did not subscribe), the lower than expected PS4 sales don't mean anything other than the PS4 is not an established console yet and the game has only been out for a month.