| ClaudeLv250 said: White Knight Story I see a lot of fanboys hyping the hell out of this game, saying it's going to move PS3s in Japan, sell over a million, etc. Thing is, Level 5 doesn't have that many wildly successful games ouutside of Dragon Quest and Professor Layton. I'm not sure why this game is supposed to be special. |
I think it all boils down to marketing. Sony is desperate for JRPGs, so they will push WKC heavily.
Look at Dark Cloud 1/2. Dark Cloud was one of the first JRPGs on the ps2, and Sony marketed the game rather well. They had TV spots comparing it to Zelda, and it sold decently (went Greatest Hits). Hell, the only reason I bought it was because of a commercial comparing it to Zelda (and once I played it, I found out it was very different from Zelda, but it was a good game nonetheless).
Then a few years later along came Dark Cloud 2. It received little to no marketing (I didn't even find out it existed until I saw it used at GameStop two years later), and sold quite a bit less than what the original sold (didn't come anywhere close to making Greatest Hits), despite being (arguably) Level 5's best game to date.
Because of Sony's current situation, WKC should follow a path similar to that of the original Dark Cloud, rather than that of it's successor. It should be marketed very well, and assuming it's a really good game (like Dark Cloud 2 and Dragon Quest VIII, rather than Dark Cloud and Rogue Galaxy, which were still good, don't get me wrong) then it should sell very well.
Will it move consoles in Japan? Now that I can't say.
