Microsofts 2008 RPG gambit - success or failure?

[Riachu]

Squilliam said:

Riachu said:

Squilliam said:

Well so long as it sells >600k between the U.S and Japan its a success because Naznatips will owe me some Wiiware! xD

Well its shaping up to be a success but we won't really know till next week. I just felt like giving this thread a bump.

 

Don't forget about Europe(even though ToV doesn't get released there until 2009. ToV sales could suprise us(in a good way I might add) and we can't be sure until we see actual sales numbers for the game.

 

I hope so, it will be great for the JRPG genre in general to get some decent sales under its belt. Its been pretty much dead on every home console platform so far. Fingers crossed that it can find its feet on the Xbox 360.

Edit: Because the JRPG market place is far less crowded than last generation the Tales series should be getting some decent attention from people who haven't specifically been into or played the series before.

 

I never played a Tales yet I definitely want to get ToV right after I beat LO(not too far from finishing).  There is a suprising amount of people who never played any of the games in the series yet are interested in ToV on the internet forums.  ToV as the same thing that made ToS successful:lack of competition(IU wasn't that hyped even on the internet)