Worldwide, it sold more than copies by 1998, becoming the best-selling PlayStation game up until then, and the fastest-selling game ever at the time. The PlayStation version went on to sell copies worldwide by 1999, and units by March 2003, including 3.9million units in Japan and 5.44million units abroad, making it the highest-selling "Final Fantasy" game and the best-selling Square Enix title. By the end of 2005, 9.8 million copies had been sold worldwide, including 4 million sales in Japan and 5.8million sales abroad in North America and Europe. In 2006, 158,458 copies of "The Best"s bargain reissue of the game had been sold in Japan, and 63,770 units of the 2006 "Ultimate Hits" release were sold in Japan by 2007, bringing total sales of the PlayStation version to more than 10 million copies worldwide.