How much revenue did FINAL FANTASY XVI make?

$11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FINAL FANTASY XVI sell?

Q: How many copies did FINAL FANTASY XVI sell?

827k to 1.3M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 827k–1.3M; $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut $20.7M–$47.0M before the cut; from 33k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left FINAL FANTASY XVI out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FINAL FANTASY XVI's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 137k–1.0M

best case 1.7M (FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE)

Games like FINAL FANTASY XVI

The middle of these games

≈ 137k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.3M–$23.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.2M–$38.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 527 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (6 of 8) and Spectacle fighter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + JRPG, priced around $40.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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