Bravely Default Sells One Million Worldwide

[Squirrel Emperor]

The Bravely Default twitter account says that the game has sold 1 million copies world wide.

Dengeki Online says 400K in Japan and 600K in the west.

I think it might be safe to say Bravely Second will come to the west. Wonder if Nintendo will help this time around?

 

[Azuardo]

I really want to know full UK figures. The game didn't debut well at all when it was released here, leading me to wonder just how well it did in the end. eShop sales can't have been THAT huge, surely. I remember hearing it did well in the US, though. Good news, anyway. Just hope the next game doesn't have us pissing around and redoing events 50 times over.

 

[yeah_93]

It's a good thing. Hopefully this means there would be no trouble with bringing BD 2 to the West.

 

[Jenova]

Glad to see a non-Final Fantasy game do well overseas. Hopefully, this will inspire SE to bring over more spin-offs in the future.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

If all it took were numbers like that to make more games that don't have Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest in the title. You'd think Square Enix would make a new Chrono game. Perhaps Bravely Default being a new IP is what helped it break a million. I think a new Chrono could break a million easily as it has a bit of history and wouldn't be a risk that new IPs initially bring. Plus there is demand for one.

 

[Crystal Power]

Hopefully Square will try making more new Japanese role playing games, or just games that are more "Japanese" inspired. Majority of their games lately are very Western and made by Eidos.

Maybe visit their old IP's like Parasite Eve. I like "The 3rd Birthday" but come on!? They wait that long to make a new installment in the series and that's what we got... -_-

 

[Fleur]

That's excellent to hear. Good chances of Bravely Second coming out in timely fashion, and a very promising foundation for this franchise.

But Bravely Default's success is another failure for Square-Enix. By "failure", I mean the company's general myopia when it comes to demand for more traditional JRPGs, and their utter reluctance to release the game worldwide themselves, thus having Nintendo take up the slack. Hopefully they've got the message now.