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Pristine20 on 29 August 2008
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Kasz216 said:
Pristine20 said:
sc94597 said:

Pokemon sales>Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest

To answer you question; Jrpgs are pretty niche outside of Japan. I guess most Westerners have different tastes than the Japanese. Same reason FPS don't sell to well in Japan.

JRPGs also seem to be niche in JP. No none S-E effort has broken a mil in JP that I know of (except pokemon)

 

That's kinda like saying Mp3 music players are niche because none are really popular outside of Ipod.

Sure Square, Enix and SE are about the only ones outside of pokemong to reach 1 mil sales in Japan... but how many S, E and S-E games have done so?  A 40+?

 

 

so how would you define "niche" then? I thought it referred to an 'unpopular' genre. I just took his analogy on the "nicheness" of JRPGs in the west and applied it to Japan itself.

 



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