Square Enix announced Tuesday that its Final Fantasy VII Remake game received a total of more than 3.5 million physical shipments and digital sales worldwide in the first three days of its release. Famitsu reported that the game's physical shipments and digital sales exceeded one million copies in Japan during that period.
Square Enix delayed the PlayStation 4 game from March 3 to April 10. The game is exclusive to PlayStation until April 10, 2021. Square Enix shipped the game "much earlier than usual" to Europe and Australia, but digital copies of the game were still released on April 10 as planned. Measures such as COVID-19 related retail closings affected delivery dates.
Final Fantasy VII Remake Official Editions
The game has Deluxe, Digital Deluxe and 1st Class editions. The Deluxe Edition contains an art book, a mini soundtrack CD and a Materia for Cactuar DLC. The Digital Deluxe Edition contains a digital art book, a digital soundtrack mini-CD and a "Matter for Carbuncle and Cactuar" DLC. The First Class Edition includes all the content of the Deluxe Edition, a "Matter for Carbuncle" DLC, as well as a Play Arts Kai figure named "Cloud Strife and Hardy Daytona". People who pre-ordered the game received a Chocobo Chick Stuff DLC. Digital pre-orders also included a theme for the PS4 menu.
Tetsuya Nomura returned to the remake game as its director after serving as character designer for the original game, and Kazushige Nojima returned as a writer. Square Enix stated in a Japanese news publication for the game in May, "Production is underway at work as multiple parties."
Square Enix announced the remake of Final Fantasy VII in 2015. Square's original Final Fantasy VII game debuted for PlayStation in 1997.
