True, but they had ample time to just cut their losses. They expect to hit that sales number, remember it's the same company that thought Tomb Raider was a failure when it sold really well. I would think they'd get more realistic after that but maybe they just don't know wtf they are doing anymore.

No. If you think that this game will sell that many copies you are delusional. Those types of numbers are only done by games that have mass appeal and Final Fantasy does not have that kind of appeal.

I highly doubt it will and Square's projections/business planing is as ridiculous as ever.

@oursin_360: SE never said Tomb Raider 2013 was a failure. TR sold twice as many copies in Europe compared to the US, SE laid the blame on the US sales team. SE never mentioned the sales target for TR just the combined sales of 8.75 million for Hitman, TR and Sleeping Dogs we don't know what SE expected from TR. SE never blamed the games or gave out specific figures, overshipping in the US and the stock buy back was the failure not missing the sales targets.

Tomb Raider failed to hit expectations.

Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution and Sleeping Dogs were the only big releases for these regions and accounted for a combined 8.75 million sales worldwide, it's clear that their targets were a good deal higher.

The business' North American sales momentum was singled out as being particularly "ineffective". The continent recorded just two thirds of Europe's sales. Back in September, Square Enix had forecast that North American sales would be higher than Europe's.

Price protection - where a publisher is forced to compensate retailers for any games shifted at cut cost - added to Square Enix's woes.

In large part this is due to a restructuring of its games business, a measure necessary due to lacklustre sales of its console game portfolio. Company president Yoichi Wada has also been replaced.

If a game is amazing in a variety of obvious ways, like the Witcher, then i can understand fantastic sales figures, that being said The Division sold in the millions and that's a mediocre third person shooter (that volumetric light tho). Things FFXV has shown me so far, bad performance in the demos, weird world design and some questionable mechanics, nothing that amazes me yet, given the pull of the franchise i'd expect 3-5 million, but i'm not a franchise fan so it could be higher.

I believe SE can sell 10 million on popularity and the fame of the franchise, on advertising, and by taking advantage of a current gen market with lack of diversity and quantity in high profiled games.

I am MAJORLY skeeved at the footage for NEW Super Final Fantasy 7. It's is a different game and way too early to say it will not change radically on release.

It's smart they are doing episodes. If the first of X episodes, which does not have that many playable characters and the story kind of stagnates on the trope that science is bad for planet (like Anachronox and FF6), they can easily cancel it if they don't hit pre-set marks on episode 2 (it will be dumb to decide on episode 1 since people will be downloading it because it's Cloud Strifu and Aerith)

No way 10 million. The series hasn't got the same reputation it once had. I think it'd need to be an absolute masterpiece to do that well. Which I doubt it will be. Based on the demo, I think the best it will be is a kind of 8.5/10 game. Not a 9.5 like the series height though.

What kind of timespan are we talking? By the time we have PS4 classics on the PS6 store, maybe? There are a lot of people out there who really like mediocre gameplay and atrocious melodrama, so it'll probably do pretty well.

@tipsyrooster: Uncovered was an event that Square-Enix ran to showcase a lot of this FFXV stuff. If you don't know what it is, it's safe to say you didn't watch it, so you can ignore that bit. :D

I think it will do very well, but I can't see it selling that many copies.

I'd be hard pressed to say any game is going to sell more than 10 million. Like, what class of games regularly make those numbers? Does Call of Duty sell 10 million copies? Does Fifa? FF15 might be great, but it's an Action - JRPG starring a boyband on a road trip. I don't know if that titles reaches 10 million people.