The Final Fantasy franchise has officially sold over 200 million units

Final Fantasy is one of the most iconic franchises in gaming, with its roots stretching all the way back to 1987. More than 35 years later and the series remains one of Square Enix’s biggest. As the franchise nears its 40th anniversary, Square Enix has now revealed that the Final Fantasy series as a whole has surpassed 200 million units sold.

At the tail-end of their latest press release detailing the upcoming updates to its Final Fantasy XIV Online expansion ‘Dawntrail’, Square Enix offered new sales stats for the franchise as a whole, writing:

“The Square Enix group of companies boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: FINAL FANTASY, which has sold over 203 million units worldwide.”

For context, we reported back in October of last year that the franchise had hit 195 million copies – which itself represented an increase of 15 million when compared to July 2023.

Given this, it appears as though the Final Fantasy franchise is on track to continue selling an average of roughly 10 million units across its games each year; an impressive achievement given the last mainline entry was FFVII: Rebirth which released back in February of 2024 (though it did come later to Windows).

Regardless, it is always interesting to track the ongoing sales of Final Fantasy, especially as it somehow still falls behind Rockstar’s GTA V – which alone has sold over 215 million copies.

That said, Grand Theft Auto is its own behemoth and so the comparison is clearly far from being apples-to-apples. By this time next year though, the Final Fantasy series may have finally outsold GTA V. We will have to wait and see.

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