Final Fantasy (I?) Anniversary Edition preorders hit past 100,000

If you’re wondering how well the fourth remake of a game released a little over 20 years ago will do… well, at least Square Enix can bank on selling north of one hundred thousand copies of Final Fantasy: 20th Anniversary Edition UMDs to the Japanese gaming public. According to Square Insider, that’s how many copies of the PSP remake of the GBA remake of the PSOne remake of the WonderSwan remake of the NES games (what a dev history…) have been preordered.

We couldn’t tell if the figures refer to the preorder for only the FF remake, or both FF I & II remakes, but given the differing release dates, we’ll presume it’s only FFI. And if you’re wondering why we used the compilation covers above, well… photoshopping eight boxarts, plus the compilation covers, is a bee-yotch.

Seems the remake is doing quite well, thank you very much, even before its release date. As a point of comparison, Square Insider notes that Squeenix would be happy to see 150,000 copies of the remake fly off Japanese shelves. Maybe it’s having the content of both the PSOne and GBA compilation/remakes, plus PSP high-res graphics and that bonus dungeon.

Next question: how many of those preorders came from North America?

If you’re wondering how well the fourth remake of a game released a little over 20 years ago will do… well, at least Square Enix can bank on selling north of one hundred thousand copies of Final Fantasy: 20th Anniversary Edition UMDs to the Japanese gaming public. According to Square Insider, that’s how many copies of the PSP remake of the GBA remake of the PSOne remake of the WonderSwan remake of the NES games (what a dev history…) have been preordered.

We couldn’t tell if the figures refer to the preorder for only the FF remake, or both FF I & II remakes, but given the differing release dates, we’ll presume it’s only FFI. And if you’re wondering why we used the compilation covers above, well… photoshopping eight boxarts, plus the compilation covers, is a bee-yotch.

Seems the remake is doing quite well, thank you very much, even before its release date. As a point of comparison, Square Insider notes that Squeenix would be happy to see 150,000 copies of the remake fly off Japanese shelves. Maybe it’s having the content of both the PSOne and GBA compilation/remakes, plus PSP high-res graphics and that bonus dungeon.

Next question: how many of those preorders came from North America?