Soriku said:
ph4nt said:
I think Wii faces the same exact problem. There is practically no support as of right now for the System in terms of JRPG's (Tales of Symphonia 2, but that doesn't really count).
For some odd reasons, despite being the least successful, Xbox 360 is getting the most JRPG's, I wonder how they managed that? |
Not too hard to figure out.
MS was most likely in talks with companies like Namco and such shortly after the 360 launched. I mean for example ToV development started in 2006. Likely the same with Eternal Sonata. Considering it was the first console out and the PS3/Wii wouldn't launch for a year it's not too surprising it got support.
The PS3 is suffering because most of the RPGs it's getting are big so they needed A LOT of time to develop.
The Wii is suffering because the Wii was fated to lose. That was wrong and it got late support. If you look at Onimusha's Wii game list, there's a lot of RPGs hitting it in 2009 and who knows what else will be announced. We can also add Inazuma Eleven and that Nino-game from Level 5 becasue those are obvious Wii games. Most likely 2009 releases for both, especiall Inazuma. From here on out there'll be more RPG announcements for it as time passes.
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It's called moneyhatting. Being first to the market only means so much. Dreamcast was first and the only major 3rd party RPG I can think of that it got was Grandia II. If Sega was passing out moneyhats for RPGs I'm sure they would have gotten more before the console died.
PS3 is suffering because outside of FFXIII no one is bringing any major RPGs to it. So far it's getting low profile titles and ports of 360 bombs from companies I'm prety sure werre expecting it to sell better.
Wii isn't really suffering. In the past year there's been about 5-7 RPGs announced with more to come at TGS. The only thing you could really say about those games is that they're not high profile SE games, but when SE is tying all of its major titles to sinking consoles it's not really a surprise.
