Final Fantasy Resonance Is Killing It!
This game and its success would have never exist it without Keisuke Nakashima!
Final Fantasy Resonance is a major hit! The game has been well received across the board. The game is a major financial success.
On Steam charts, Resonance has reached over 42,000 concurrent players in a 24-hour period. The game now holds the record for the most concurrent players of any single player Final Fantasy on Steam. It also maintains a rating around 97 percent which is “Overwhelmingly Positive!
According to Alinea Analytics, Resonance has sold roughly 400,000 copies across all platforms. The number of copies generates an estimate of 20 million in revenue since its launch on October 22nd. The game has sold the most copies on PS5 and Steam with a small percentage sold on Xbox.
Famitsu has tracked that Resonance has sold 133,191 physical copies on its opening week. The Switch 2 has the most copies sold while PS5 is not far behind the Nintendo console. Resonance has sold 34,608 copies in its 2nd week.
This is quite the accomplishment for a new Final Fantasy game, right?! It makes it unfathomable to think that Resonance would never been existence. We have game’s producer, Keisuke Nakashima to thank for Resonance.
Keisuke Nakashima’s Battle for Resonance
In late 2020, Square Enix executives initially wanted Resonance to be a simple and chepaer port of the now defunct Brave Exvius. But Nakashima for something bigger as he want to remove the gacha and microtransactions. Of course, there some resistance from Square Enix execs against it. The game’s existence along with its success means he succeeded.
While he didn’t want to go down that route. Nakashima understood that there were fans who were interested in Brave Exvius. But they avoid the game due to its gacha elements. I was one of them.
To reach these fans, Nakashima wanted to create an original version for consoles. A console version would be a full blown experience which would reach wider audience than a mobile game could. It certainly did for me.
The Right Choice
There are several reasons why Nakashima made the right choice. First, fans who won’t fond of gacha could experience the story of Brave Exvius. Personally I was interested in Brave Exvius, but I’m not mobile gamer. Nor I’m a fan of gacha.
When I heard Resonance was going to be a full fledged console game. I was elated and excited. I always heard Brave Exvius has a cool story so I was happy I get to experience its story.
Second, Nakashima fighting Square Enix execs on making this a full console game paid off. If the execs would have had their way, the cheaper, simpler Brave Exvius would not been successful like the console version we got. Or the execs’ desired port could been a failure down line.
Third, Resonance proves that they are people who buy and play a turn based Final Fantasy. With modern, mainlibe Final Fantasy going more towards action. Resonance gives us all a choice in having a turn based Final Fantasy and having a hybrid or an action FF.
Fourth, I can see Resonance being a side series for Final Fantasy. Now that Team Asano has created the first game they now have assets and expertise to keep creating these magnificent pixelated, turn based Final Fantasies.
This leads us to the final reason.
Resonance's massive success allow for Team Asano to make another game in the series. Resonance adopts the first season of Brave Exvius. Brave Exvius has a few more seasons than can adopted into more games.
Thank You, Nakashima!
I'll wrap up this by expressing my sincerest gratitude to Nakashima. Thank you, Nakashima for fighting for the console version of this game. Also thank you for making this game along with Team Asano. Congratulations on the success of Final Fantasy Resonance. The success of this game and its experience brightens the future of Final Fantasy.
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