How much revenue did FINAL FANTASY XVI make?

$11.6M–$31.1M 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?

842k to 1.4M copies, based on its 34k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 842k–1.4M; $11.6M–$31.1M after Steam's cut $21.0M–$47.9M before Steam's cut; from 34k reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid FINAL FANTASY XVI and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FINAL FANTASY XVI's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–1.0M

best case 1.7M (FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE)

Games like FINAL FANTASY XVI

A typical game among these

≈ 138k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.3M–$23.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.5M–$39.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 526 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (6 of 8) and Spectacle fighter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + JRPG, priced around $40.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre 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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