How much revenue did FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2 make?

$2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2 sell?

Q: How many copies did FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2 sell?

362k to 588k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 362k–588k; $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Mixed)

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® XIII-2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 834k–1.6M

best case 6.3M (FINAL FANTASY XIV Online)

Games like FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2

A typical game among these

≈ 834k–1.6M copies

≈ $12.0M–$25.7M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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 XIV Online at ≈ 4.8M–7.8M copies, ≈ $26.4M–$71.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (7 of 8) and JRPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MMORPG + Character Customization, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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