Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Series Sells Two Million Copies

Still waiting for Final Fantasy Tactics Remastered and Chrono Trigger Remastered on Switch, Square-Enix.

Are they all separate menu icons?

@Zach777 Yes, they are.

@Olliemar28 I looked at the Japanese eShop top 20 last week. To my surprise, V was ahead of VI.

@Zach777 When you put the physical cartridge in the Switch, your home screen immediately gets flooded with six icons. It's kind of funny actually. Even if you're only interested in one of the games, you gotta look at all of them.

Great games, served up with a large dollop of nostalgia (for me anyway). But way too expensive. Will wait until they're on sale. Especially as FF games usually get quite hefty discounts if you're patient.

man these do not look appealing. Highly, highly recommend Chained Echoes instead

Mystic Quest Remake part one when?

I've been playing through FF1 and intend on working my way up to the FFVII remake (maybe by then it'll all be out). It's fun and its age only slightly shows. It is kinda annoying that I had to open a bunch of other games to keep them all from cluttering my home screen though.

@BlublacMH
Is FF7 remake coming to switch?
Sure would like that! As long it is is not cloud based (har har)...and is complete. Didn't they release that game in episodes or something like that?

I'd buy this very quickly if it was physical, but not spending the $200+ that scalpers are asking for

Meanwhile physical copies going seemingly for $2M each on eBay.

@msvt Oh, no lol. The remake isn't coming to Switch I'm gonna play it on PS5. And yea its in episodes and I think there's one left.

I’m just waiting on Squeenix to act surprised that they sold so well.

I'm only buying them piecemeal but yes, VI is what brought me here.

I'd gladly be part of that number if Square had realized that more than 18 people wanted a physical release.

@Magician I seem to recall that FFV is very popular in Japan. Although it's possible I'm conflating it with DQV, which I KNOW is incredibly popular.

@msvt I'm fairly sure Sony has paid for FF7 Remake exclusivity. Which is why it hasn't been made available on Xbox yet either.

@Ryu_Niiyama I was gonna say that, knowing Square Enix, they'll claim the games didn't meet their sales expectations. But somehow they only ever seem to say that about games developed outside Japan.

@LastFootnote No denying V's popularity. It was one of those long-term projects, announced before IV was released in Japan. It was suppose to be the first Final Fantasy on SNES, until IV development was upgraded from NES to SNES.

Physicals are available on Play Asia if you don’t mind waiting a while.

And V > VI, indisputable fact 😉

I’ve been having a blast with these! I got the whole collection for Switch, and IV separately on PlayStation. Ive almost completed the SNES trilogy, and excited to start the NES games!

@S83 V has such a great battle system! I prefer VI overall, but glad to see love for V!

@S83 Not sure I can agree. The difficulty spike with Archeoaevis in the Ronka Ruins is brutal.

They would had sold a lot more had they released the console versions at the same time the PC and mobile ports got released and in non-limited capacity. Not many people on mobile buys digital games and not many people on PC plays JRPGs that much anyways especially Final Fantasy.

@EarthboundBenjy Yeah but if you hate seeing them you could just delete the ones you don't like after taking out the cartridge.

@S83 Yeap and the fact is the Play-Asia version is the better version since it had a reverse cover art.

Still think it's total BS that you have to sell a kidney to afford the physical version and that it's super limited on top of the ridiculous price.

FF6 fans are an insufferable lot sometimes.

@S83
Don't think V is better than VI but I love FF V. The job system is fun to use and the game doesn't get enough love.

I'm definitely interested myself but not at the current price. Will wait for it to come down to $60 or so which I'm sure will happen. Maybe even $50 considering my substantial back log lol ah who am I kidding will probably snatch it at $60 and make my backlog take a backseat 😭

I've completed all but FF-II, but I wasn't a huge fan of it in the first place. I recently completed Final Fantasy IV again, and really need to finish V and my no Esper run of VI.

I may pick up both V and I at some point. I'd rather not sell plasma and a kidney for the physical edition, plus I can already easily play both IV and VI in some form (legitly).

@Ryu_Niiyama at the next earnings call SE will have to apologize it didn't meet their expectations of 7M. Every time with these bozos.

Got my physical game from Play-Asia yesterday and already more than six hours into Final Fantasy II. Loving it and definitely recommend people import sooner rather than later. SE could take it out of print at any time, and probably will since they're selling it digitally for the same price as physical.

@Expa0 Agreed. Its a decent enough game with great moments, but it’s hardly gods gift to JRPGs like people would have you believe.

@awaltzforvenus I feel like I’m in the minority for not wanting CT in HD-2D. The graphical style is good, but I don’t think it works for what made Chrono Trigger stand out in the first place.

For an example of what I mean, seamless transitions between battle and exploration wouldn’t work as well with the kind of separation you see between the Sprites and overworld in HD-2D titles. Both the camera view, the rendering of objects such as trees or flowing water, and the relative stiffness of HD-2D sprites all play into this.

There’s other factors as well, such as bloom not playing well with the color pallet and Toriyamas art style, and various graphical oddities being tuned for said color pallet(portals, spell animations, etc.)

I would like to see a remake in some form, but HD-2D isn’t the way to go.

@S83 Not just fact, a way of life. FF5 is the better game.

FFV finally meeting the grand audience it deserves

Hot take: I've always preferred IV. VI has the better high points but I find some of the characters (in both gameplay and story) to be kinda overhyped and at times genuinely underwhelming.

Plan to get these when funds are a little better off, preferably on sale. I know for sure I want to play FF3 at least, I feel it's a very underrated gem of a game.

PlayAsia had physical copies for preorder. Looking forward to mine arriving soon!

@Magician hopefully they will make a HD-2D remake for Chrono trigger. One of the best jrpg of all times deserves such treatment.

@TheBoilerman same. The fact the physical copies sold out within minutes of going live at a stupid time that most weren't awake for, they lost oit on me buying this for my Switch.

I only buy physical so their loss, not mine. I played all these as originals through my childhood so I'm not actually missing anything.

@Tasuki I don't get why they considered that game the black sheep but craps like Final Fantasy XI and XIV aren't. Both games are literally just MMO and had little to nothing to do with Final Fantasy, on top of that those games are hardly ever final.

@Rhaoulos I believe Square Enix said that they are interest in making more classic remake in the HD 2D style soon after the success of Live a Live. Dragon Quest III is the second game they plan to remake in that style, hopefully Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, Breath of Fire, and Soul Blazer are in the making too. With the success of Tactics Ogre, I think Square is planning Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis, Ogre Battle, and Ogre Battle 64 soon too.

Good for Square Enix, slightly depressing for Octopath's team.

This only proves why I believe their next game should be a Final Fantasy spinoff. Square Enix used to do this already, which is how we got so many wonderful spinoff franchises like FFTactics/A, Crystal Chronicles, etc. Those games easily could have been their own IP's.

In the same way, Megaman Battle Network could have been spun up as its own IP, but Capcom chose wisely to leverage an established brand.

I would love to see the HD2D studio leverage Final Fantasy with new stories and even genres. They still haven't made an ARPG yet. Or even a multiplayer game! I'm imagining something along the lines of Type-0, Wizards of Legend, etc. I thought for a while how fun it would be to have a Final Fantasy Wizards of Legend. Wait, perhaps Square Enix could commission the WoL devs to make just that..?

I don't see the point in insisting on a physical copy. I haven't played physical copies of these games in 20 years (half of them never). These exist digitally to me. What would I do with a physical copy?

@Purgatorium Physical copy guaranteed that you always had the games with you whereas digital just means you had a license access. The moment you delete a digital game, as long as that game is still in the company server then you could download it time and time again but if the server ever close down which means if the next console is not backwards compatible with the previous store then you could no longer had access to it unless you hack the machine. Either way I prefer the physical release but for smaller games such as Shovel Knight and Hellblade I prefer digital too.

@Tasuki Doesn't look generic, if anything it's better than the Final Fantasy Legends games which lack more details. The game was an entry level RPG to try to sell JRPG to the west. Sadly it didn't do the job very well but still was an awesome entry.

Finally broke down and ordered the Asian copy on PlayAsia. They are currently back ordered until the 22nd of May, 2023. Just feel that this is a collection that deserves a physical copy for my collection. Oh, and I primarily ordered it for II and V.... Even though I still have my GBA edition of V.

@Darknyht
No Esper run of VI, eh? Respect.

@Serpenterror
That's why I have always considered X-2 to be the "real" FFXI and Lightning Returns to be XIV.

@Serpenterror I meant for these games specifically. They are so many versions of them, SE will release more in the future and they can be easily emulated. Owning them physically doesn't seem to have any benefit. I don't feel like I'd ever lose the ability to play them.

@Rooty
I'd like to see FF Mystic Quest appear in a collection alongside Secret of Evermore. It could be a follow-up to Collection of Mana and Collection of SaGa called "Collection of USA" or something ridiculous like that. ...since FF Mystic Quest is called "Final Fantasy USA" in Japan, and Secret of Evermore was not even sold in Japan at all.
...Maybe it's a bit of a stretch, but I feel like it would make sense this way lol.

…I bought all of them. Four times. (iOS, Steam, Switch, and PS4…) I’m part of the problem. Classic Final Fantasy games are my favorites! So basically a million of the sales were just me.

The only part of these remasters that bum me out is that FFVI uses the newer GBA localization and not my nostalgia-rich Woolsey localization

@WhiteTrashGuy then you’re not a “real” final fantasy fan

@Serpenterror lol XI and XIV are more Final Fantasy than a lot of the offline games . ffmq was a joke of a game even when it came out

IV is the best in the list, I don't care what anyone else says.

@Darkthany
Lol. Sorry if I have never had time to get into any MMOs. Strictly single and local-multiplayer (rocked V 2-player on the Anthology Collection). Although, XIV does look amazing and I watched a few friends play XI and was impressed.

$85 for for those? Ugh...that's pathetic. Please don't tell me that there's a collector out there that owns every iteration of the game on every available platform.

Trust me, when you get older, you're gonna look back and say to yourself, "now, let's see...I have final fantasy on my NES,
MSX2, WonderSwan Color, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, PSP, iPhone, J2ME, Windows Phone, Android, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4! That's roughly $300 dollars on the same game...now multiple that by six! What was I thinking? I should have known I'd grow out of this stuff...if only I held on to my money when I was hi younger, I could buy my wife and kids so much more...I'd have money to go on a vacation. And who am I kidding? No one's going to by my collection when I retire...cause everyone plays videos games, so that dilutes the over all value...plus...how many old guys do I know that still have thier GI Joe collections and play with them..."

Folks, yeah, videos games are a hobby. But you don't have to be suckered into buying this crap over and over and over again. If these game developers can't offer anything new...you don't have to keep on buying thier same old sh*t; under the guise of "collecting for your collection". And it's not collecting, it's hoarding. It will turn into a problem.

Well, VI offers the most for the Price.