Final Fantasy is catching up with the quarter

Because there’s more than just Final Fantasy in life, Square Enix released its financial results for the second half of the current fiscal year instead, and the disappointments are here.

Caught between the final release of Final Fantasy VII Remake, the first of the name and the fervor that surrounds the future (but not necessarily distant) release of Final Fantasy XVI, Square Enix presented Mixed results. Ten years after The World Ends With You, despite the protruding plastic and the Tokyo decor, the publisher has failed to revive public interest with its NEO sequel.

NEO is not the chosen one

Despite the availability of a demo and marketing campaign that has tried everything to make NEO The World Ends With You the J-RPG of Summer 2021, Square Enix has to settle for a critical, if not commercial, success:

Although NEO The World Ends With You was well received by the players, the results were not what we expected.

In an attempt to see the glass half full, the publisher hopes that long sales will compensate for this poor performance, even if practice is still very often the prerogative of a famous Japanese manufacturer.

The final episode of the Life is Strange series did not restore any color in the second quarter either

Gil per million

There is no shortage of reason to be happy, however: Last month, for example, we learned that Final Fantasy XIV had become official the highest-grossing episode in the history of the series. Today is the fifteenth episode that will soon be featured again, as the adventures between the boys from Noctis and his clique are dangerously close to 10 million copies sold, of which 9.8 million are officially counted.

Nevertheless, Final Fantasy VII remains the most bankable episode in the house catalog of its 13 million units, and In view of the most recent variations such as the mobile phone game First Soldier and the intense teasing about “the sequel”, it is certain that the world of the cult game from 1997 will be burdened with the publisher’s decisions for a long time to come. . You have to compensate for the poor performance of Outriders or Marvel’s Avengers, you see …

And yet Final Fantasy VII Remake (or its intergrade version) is currently only available on Sony consoles and a total of 5 million games have (already) been sold. This means.