In Japan, the game had over pre-orders about ten days before release. Within three days of its release, copies of "Final Fantasy VII" were sold. Upon release, it was a killer app for the original PlayStation console, with "Computing Japan" magazine noting that it was largely responsible for the PlayStation's global installed base increasing from 10million units sold by November 1996 to 16million units sold by May 1997 (an increase of 60%). By August 1997, over copies had been sold in Japan. According to "Weekly Famitsu", 3.27 million copies of the game were sold in Japan by the end of 1997.