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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth was the best-selling PlayStation game of 2024 in Japan

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
PlayStation

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.

KitGuru says: Did you buy Final Fantasy VII Rebirth last year? Did you get it physically or digitally? Does Square Enix have too high of expectations for its games? Let us know your thoughts down below.

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