FF7R sales according to Famitsu. The game sold 702.5K on opening week (friday)
For comparison the first week sales of recent FFs:
- FFX had 1.7M on opening week (thursday)
- FFXII had 1.8M on opening week (thursday)
- FFXIII had 1.5M on opening week (Monday)
- FFXV had 716.6K on opening week (Monday)
Sources for other sales: Game Data Library
Week two sales for FF7R in Japan (April 12-April 19)
Rank - System - Game - this week/total accumulated
#1 [SWI] Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 286.586 / 3.611.246
#2 [PS4] Final Fantasy VII Remake - 70.652 / 773.505
#3 [SWI] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 13.313 / 2.882.585
This is a 89.95% drop from last week, the number sounds severe but the drop
is in line with the rest of the series. FFXII, XIII & XV dropped 88% in their second week, at its best the series saw drops of 84% and 83% for FFVII & IX respectively. FF was alway front loaded in Japan.
On week two it sold 9K phisical copies less than XV but digitally the game performed better with
around 270k on week one vs
XV's 88K on one month. In conclusion the Remake is performing magnitudes better on digital and slightly behind on retail, with both phisical & digital combined the overall performance has Remake edging XV by about 29%. However, both games (retail) performance are still a far cry from FFXIII,
which sold 1.5M on just first week.
As it stands, the franchise in Japan has yet to recover from the post-XIII effect.