why are people not buying this games in America I just dont get why good games dont sell. People buy Viva Pinata and Infinite Undiscovery

After the price cuts and during the holidays they will probaly sell more.

lots of games coming out...maybe they wont have enough money for everything.

personally...i just dont buy games when they first come out(although i am considering BK3). they both will be eventual purchases for me though

Infinite Undiscovery got a moderate slam in revews (some people care about it, but I'd still buy)... plus, JRPG's are almost never sell very well. Viva Pinata - didn't play it, no idea.

i am shocked at the sales of these games to be honest. deffo viva whatever because the way microsoft always mentions this game when it comes to brilliant exclusives, you would think it would have been a very high selling game. that the impression i got but i dont know

IU is a bit of a shock as well. i bet microsoft got this game because of the US install base and it really has backfired on squarenix. i would no be surprised if this game now becomes multi.

I, on the other hand, would. I would very much want it on the PS3 - but, alas, it's a Microsoft owned IP.

oh shit that reminds me i need to put IU and a few others in my games collection as i have acquired them.

does microsoft purchase all these ip's or are they just given them

In the USA? I can give a few reasons:

Viva Pinata - It's *gasp* casual! Not Microsoft casual (ie, poor selling), but Nintendo/Wii casual (ie, evergreen). Viva Pinata 1 debuted at a whopping 10,690 units in North America 2 years ago, when Gears launched. It wound up selling 600,000 units without bundling. VP2 sold 3.5x that many units in North America for it's debut week. Does this mean that VP2 will sell 2 million units in the US? Who knows.

Infinite Undiscovery - Unfortunately, it looks like North America is (sadly) reverting to it's pre-PS1 days of shunning JRPGs. No JRPG has yet to get traction in the US of A, regardless of system, outside of maybe Lost Odyssey. I can give a laundry list of games that haven't done well. But the fact is, unless your Pokemon or Final Fantasy, your sales are going to suck for a JRPG in the US. Western RPGs are just so much more appealing for some reason.

TWEWY - 264k

FFT2 - 241k

FF:CC ROF: 201k

FF:CC (PSP): 576k

FFT:TLW - 109k

And so on. The biggest selling non-Pokemon JRPG this year is Final Fantasy: Crisis Core on PSP. Whoop-de-friggin-do.

However, to be fair: JRPGs aren't front loaded in the USA. I don't think your going to be able to make a valid opinion on first week sales, since some JRPGs have had great legs after horrid debuts.

VP is and has been a good game, i expect it to slowly build and be a popular pack in... the game is a gateway drug