How did SaGa Frontier Remastered sell across all the different platforms?

[Ring & Chime]

I'm curious. Because I know that they've talked about remastering SaGa Frontier 2, Romancing SaGa, and Unlimited Saga and sometimes companies change plans like that if games don't do well. Obviously the game only came out a little while ago, but I would like to know how the sales have been on all platforms so far.

[Blackened Halo]

I dunno man but i do not think the sales are great. Square did not spend too much into marketing because they knew this would not be a best seller.

One way or another, I am so happy that this game exists and it was released on PC. Amazing remaster!

[SkyeSage]

I can assume it sold pretty well in Japan; it hit #1 on mobile app stores during its launch week

[Raynel]

I watched the Romancing SaGa; ReuniverSe live stream that happened before Saga Frontier released, and the developer they were interviewing said they were really surprised at the number if pre-orders, as it was far beyond what they expected, like by a substantial amount.
Even if it didn't sell too much after that, they still have plans to remaster the games because the sales are far beyond what was expected. Sales may not be terribly high, but considering the relatively low expense of remaster development, they will probably bring over the other games based on this data, because the profit is worth it, particularly since there is no physical version of the game so they don't have much in the way of actual production costs.

[Ring & Chime]

Hm, I just checked the number of reviews on SaGa Frontier Remastered vs. Scarlet Grace on Steam and it's higher for SaGa Frontier Remastered. So it probably did sell much better than Scarlet Grace on Steam.

[Mendinso]

From what I understand, it sold really well on the Japanese side, based off of pre-order and post-release positioning on eShop, and it was also surprisingly doing well on mobile in Japan, as well. Forget if the numbers were specifically Android or iOS, but still. It's a good sign that people really wanted this game in the modern era.

As for Internationally, SaGa Frontier legit is the one game a lot of people have played to some capacity, as it was the first SaGa game localized under it's original name, but was a bit more restricted outside of North America (with PAL regions resorting either to using imported consoles, mod chips, or emulation, but I do know people in these regions that have played it before). Still, it's a game people fondly remember from years ago and given the more ease of availability now, plus adding a lot of missing features the original was intended to have, I'd been surprised if this didn't do well.

So, it likely sold fairly well. Unsure how the Steam sales in itself did, but probably fairly decent. Wish we could get more easily accessible information on Steam sales like we used to be able to, but alas...

[Vampirate]

Saga Frontier is a personal favorite of mine so I hope this sells well so I can get to play that game again.

[eriol33]

this game probably bombed (again) in the west. But probably will sell more in Japan.

[MilkBeard]

Understanding the niche sales of the series in general, it seems like SaGa Frontier did well in relation to the other games, anyway. It has more reviews than any other SaGa game on Steam (excluding Last Remnant, of course, which is no longer for sale anyway). It seems the game sold pretty well in Japan, which was probably expected to some degree.

SE did push the marketing a bit more for Frontier, as they made all those quality videos (and they were actually surprisingly good). Still, the confused responses from some new reviewers probably tempered the sales from reaching higher, I'm sure, since the game, and series, still confuses a lot of mainstream gamers.

Anyway, it's good enough to get more remasters, so I'm happy. We have a new game and more remasters to look forward to. It's a good time to be a SaGa fan.

[RDG]

I imagine it did the same as before, well in Japan and not so good in other areas, if this could be considered as a sign of something, pretty much no western streamers covered the game in their channels, but if you go to youtube and search for it, there are already tons of high profile japanese streamers that made complete playthroughs of the game.

[T0AD]

Originally posted by Straw:

I can assume it sold pretty well in Japan; it hit #1 on mobile app stores during its launch week

seems like we have mobile to thank for SaGa's resurrection.

[Delita]

Better than expected per this article.


https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/11393-saga-re-release-sales-have-exceeded-square-enix-s-expectations-and-the-producers-would-like-to-do-more