>>713340148>Do jrpgs really sell THAT well anymore though?Not really, by all accounts 2-3 million sales should be quite good for any JRPGs
The problem is Square Enix thinks final fantasy is a giga AAA huge budget series now, but Square Enix hasn't realized that they've pretty much lost most of the audience, they aren't showing up for these games anymore.
XV was so massively hyped with this enormous marketing campaign and it sold very well.
But the game ended up being a stinker, so a lot of people who bought into the hype walked away with this really disappointing experience, they're not there for 7 remakes and XVI because SE didn't win them back.
Same thing with DMC1-3
DMC1 was great so more people buy DMC2
But DMC2 was complete shit, so even though DMC3 was far better, the sales were lower.