Final Fantasy is easily Square Enix’s biggest series, with the franchise selling around 200 million units over its past many decades. Despite their penchant for claiming that sales of their games “unfortunately did not meet our expectations” Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Rebirth appears to be performing objectively well, having topped PlayStation Japan’s best-seller’s list.

As published by the Japanese PlayStation Blog, Sony have now released their list of best-selling titles for 2024 across PlayStation 5, PS4 and PSVR2 – showing quite a different order to that of the US PlayStation Store:

PS5 (Japan)

1. FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
2. Dragon Quest III
3. Dragon's Dogma 2
4. Rise of the Ronin
5. Palworld

PS5 (US)

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
2. EA SPORTS College Football 25
3. HELLDIVERS 2
4. NBA 2K25
5. Grand Theft Auto V

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth being the best-selling PS5 game digitally in Japan is notable especially as Square Enix stated back in September that its recent FF titles “unfortunately did not meet our expectations.”

Of course, Final Fantasy is a global franchise, and with the game only placing 14th on the US PlayStation Store, it's possible that a majority of sales could be concentrated in a single region. That said, sales for Rebirth did jump by a massive 268% late last year following its GOTY nomination at the 2024 Game Awards.

This, alongside the recent PC release, could see Final Fantasy VII Rebirth prove to be a success in Square Enix’s eyes eventually…hopefully.

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Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth has landed on PC with a bang, achieving the highest concurrent player count for a single-player Final Fantasy title on Steam.

With a peak concurrent player count of 40,564 players, according to SteamDB, Rebirth has surpassed even Final Fantasy XVI's PC debut, which saw 27,508 concurrent players at its peak. This figure marks a significant leap from the original Final Fantasy VII Remake, which peaked at a more modest 13,803 players on Steam.

This success story raises an interesting question: Could Rebirth's strong PC performance convince Square Enix to continue promoting its new multiplatform-focused approach for future titles? With PC gaming growing faster than console gaming, this seems logical.

It should be noted, however, that Rebirth's figures do not earn it the achievement of having the most concurrent users of any Final Fantasy game ever. Its peak pales in contrast to that of the long-running MMO Final Fantasy 14 Online, which peaked at more than 95,150 following the release of its Endwalker expansion.

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Square Enix has just released Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PC. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, it’s time to benchmark it and examine its performance on the PC platform. For our benchmarks, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, as well as NVIDIA’s RTX … Continue reading Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis →

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After MANY years in development, we finally got the first part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake back in 2020 for the PlayStation 4. This then necessitated a PS5 upgrade when the next-gen console launched later that same year. With FFVII Rebirth releasing just under a year ago, fans have been concerned that they might be waiting until the PS6 for the trilogy to conclude. Fortunately, this won’t be the case.

With Final Fantasy VII Rebirth now out on PC, the team at Square Enix have begun to look ahead to the future 3rd and final entry in this remake trilogy.

In an interview conducted by the Japanese publication Famitsu (and translated by Eurogamer), Final Fantasy series producer Yoshinori Kitase offered an update on the current development status of FFVII Remake part 3, claiming that work on the story is now complete, stating: “I'm very satisfied with it, so I'm sure the fans will be satisfied with the final chapter.”

Beyond this, in another interview (this time with 4Gamer and translated by VGC), Kitase was informed of concerns from fans that the final entry in the trilogy could arrive as late as the PS6 generation. Qualming these fears, the producer simply stated “No, you can rest assured about the next one.”

Given just how long it took for Square Enix to bring Final Fantasy VII Remake to fruition, it is a welcome surprise to see the team’s commitment to getting the full trilogy out as soon as possible.

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Square Enix has just released Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PC. And, you know what? We’ve decided to test the game at 8K and see whether the NVIDIA RTX 5090 can run it. So, is 8K gaming possible now? Let’s find out. For our 8K test, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D with 32GB … Continue reading Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth at 8K/Max Settings on NVIDIA RTX 5090 →

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