Comments on: Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy Stutters At Japanese Box Office In Opening Week, Grosses Only $345,000

By: Hossi Blumengaarten

Hossi Blumengaarten — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 05:16:00 +0000

writer of this just got REKT

By: Primus

Primus — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:02:00 +0000

I guess the smartest journalist don’t really go into games journalism….

By: Moon Strife

Moon Strife — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:07:00 +0000

Saw the movie. Excellent Story, Awesome graphics and extraordinary Acting. 9/10

By: Asterick

Asterick — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:38:00 +0000

I am looking foward to watching it as a long long long time final fantasy fan but movies wise going by a final fantasy track record with actual movies its understandable people wouldnt be jumping to go, They are pretty movies but half the time they are disapointing for the amount of money it cost to go to a theater but either way as a fan lol i still go and get the dvds collecting dust of the other movies and animes.

By: Steven J Koontz

Steven J Koontz — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 03:07:00 +0000

They really should forego all this peripheral media and just allocate all the resources into developing the best, most expansive game possible. The reason people have moved away from the Final Fantasy series is because a decline in quality over time, the best marketing is having a superior game that garners acclaim from users and critics. Then, once the game has been well received, it would be time to consider peripheral content. Square has had a history of putting extreme amounts of money into marketing though, FF7 was one of the most expensive games ever made at the time because of the advertising budget, so maybe this strategy will work for them, but I think the funds would be better spent on realizing as detailed and rich of a game world as possible.

By: popo123

popo123 — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:50:00 +0000

In reply to Phantom Sword.

There’s a person on neogaf comparing this to other anime releases before without actually considering the number of seats, and only the number of screens. Screens =/= admissions. Films can have a select number of showings in several screens and still have a limited number of admissions depending on the number of seats per screen. Kingsglaive had 44 screens but had less than 30k seats available. Here’s the link where you can see the number or sales and seats of movies showing in Japan http://mimorin2014.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-6.html

By: popo123

popo123 — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:45:00 +0000

The movie only had less than 30k seats in all it’s showings so selling 22k+ is actually okay.
Source: http://mimorin2014.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-6.html

By: Moon Strife

Moon Strife — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:55:00 +0000

Apparently writers nowadays have no idea what they are writing about..if you do some primary school math, you will find that actually the movie did pretty well..

By: Phantom Sword

Phantom Sword — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:10:00 +0000

How is that performing miserably? It only had 44 screen showing over the weekend.

By: JimmyZ

JimmyZ — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:06:00 +0000

Lol did the writer of the article not realize Kingsglaive was supposed to be a limited release in theathers. Movie box office was not where SE was looking to make money. Sales of Deluxe Edition and independent online streaming sales is what SE is looking for. This actually did pretty well with the fact that it cracked top 10 with only 44 screens showing.
Edit: I re-read the article and looks like the writer was aware of the limited release. In that case, it shows either he can’t do math correctly seeing how Kingsglaive made more $$$ per theather vs Independence Day 2. Or the writer just wanted to write a misleading article hating on the movie or FF XV in general.