| RolStoppable said: The popular belief is that JRPGs are the most important genre to be successful in Japan, but that's not true. JRPGs usually start to be released when the systems are already successful. The Japanese are always looking for new and unique gaming experiences, that's why arcades have survived so long over there. When you look at JRPGs, hardly any of them are doing anything new. All these games do is selling the system to Japanese hardcore gamers, but as everyone knows, the hardcore are the minority in every market. That's also why the 360 is vastly outsold by the Wii in America, despite having the better games library for American hardcore gamers. Regarding Europe, you are attributing too much selling power to racing games. While they might be popular, they don't make or break a system. Otherwise, why would the Wii sell so well? The only important sport in Europe is football (soccer for Americans) and for a decade these games have been synonymous with Playstation, especially in the Southern European countries where Sony was the first company to sell a decent amount of consoles. One or two genres are only significant for the hardcore gamers, the rest of the market has very different tastes and in order to win these people over you have to offer a huge selection of different games which also need to be accessible. |
I was more or less just stereotyping a country to semi-show off a point that the 360 has the "popular" titles. :P I just play the cliche's as I hear them. The Wii is something entirely different and I'm not even going to mention it from here on out, every topic turns into that and those of us here will go on about our day's much better if this can avoid that storm. The point would be, if the 360's library is so much diverse, then why is it "x" in "x" region.
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