Game news After eight months at the top of the ranking, Nintendo has had its place stolen by this PS5 exclusivity: we are far from a poor performance!
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It's well known: Nintendo enjoys a very special aura and the success of its Swich is immeasurable. However, in Japan, the Kyoto firm has just been dethroned (temporarily?) by Square Enix.
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Rebirth, literally
It's not easy to knock Nintendo off its first step on the podium, especially in Japan where the manufacturer is all-powerful: so to speak, the company had been number 1 in terms of revenue for video game sales for eight months. physical. Eight long months where neither PlayStation nor any other has been able to get ahead of it… until now: Square Enix has finally beaten Big N in boxed sales for the month of March 2024.
We owe this excess to one title in particular (which you may have guessed): Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Released on February 29, the RPG visibly expressed its full potential during the following four weeks, therefore becoming the best-selling physical game in Japan in March 2024reveals GamesIndustry.biz.
He also made nearly triple the sales of Princess Peach: Showtime! (however released on March 22 and only on Switch); in total, 25% of physical video games sold in Japan were Square Enix titles, still in March. In short, a great success on the Japanese archipelago.
With hindsight, would the party be less crazy?
If Final Fantasy VII Rerbirth visibly sparkles in the Land of the Rising Sun, what is the situation internationally? That's the whole problem: the publisher has not communicated any figures and in fact, this could correspond to results that are ultimately rather disappointing. In any case, this is what analyst Daniel Ahmad says, who states that the game is “underperforming in terms of sales” with figures half as good as those of Final Fantasy VII Remake.
We will obviously wait for an official statement from Square Enix, especially since the die is still far from being cast for what is undoubtedly one of the best software of 2024: on Metacritic, Cloud's adventure can boast an impressive average of 92%, just that. Let us also remember that a new sequel has yet to see the light of day, thus completing this trilogy revisiting the legendary Final Fantasy VII of 1997.
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