Looks like Tales of Vesperia has had a good debut in Japan...

[mrstickball]

Riachu said:

Shadowblind said:

Beja-Beja said:
lol let the 360 take one week in japan it will fade out soon enough. Good for Microsoft though lord knows they need a hit. I wonder how this game will sell when it eventually goes to the ps3 or how it would compare to Eternal Sonata. THe Wii Tales game sold well i dont expect this game to reach it htough.

Probably pretty bad. Western gamers seem to shun stylish JRPGs.

 

Anyway, Glad that Tales of vesperia is doing so well. Hope it does well over here too.

 

It's just the Western 360 owners who shun stylish JRPGs. In fact, even though I see ToV selling better than IU in Japan, I wouldn't be suprised if it was vice versa in the West.

 

I think a lot of it has to do with public perception of the X360. It's been fighting the stigma of being the shooterbox, and what not. If someone was to say, when Blue Dragon/Sonata launch, that we'd be getting more and more stylish JRPGs, that you wouldn't find too many X360 owners that believed that.

As JRPG sales increase on the X360, and JRPGs are seen as being a very strong selling point of the X360, JRPG sales will increase. We've gone from Floposaurus Rex (Blue Dragon) selling like 100,000 copies in it's first month+ in the US, to seeing Lost Odyssey do that in a week, and have great legs.

Also, looking at Blue Dragon, it's sold 50,000 copies in the US this year. That's a pretty noteworthy addition of sales. Eternal Sonata has also sold an additional 68,000 copies in the US this year. This leads me to believe that the JRPG userbase is growing in the US as new games come onto the scene, and JRPG-ers are rediscovering new copies of the back catalog of good JRPGs.