| mrstickball said: To be fair though...... It's just wierd (atleast for a yank) to see training game # 5,000 sell for 1m copies on everything. You can complain about our every-year iteneration of Madden and NCAA, but to be fair, they have Winning Eleven X and Powerful Pro Baseball - they come out once or twice a year and never have I heard anyone take issue with them. My problem is that the good games don't sell well in Japan - Xbox 360 games, PS2 JRPGs (Odin Sphere, Persona 3), Western games, and such. Whereas in the US, everything that is a good game, generally sells well. We don't like rehashed Tales of Games, and JRPGs don't sell as well - but generally, things just always do well in the US. It's not like we're upset their tastes don't mimic US/European fare, but desiring repeat and repeat of $10 stupidit training games just gets old. Yes, shooters get over-sold, but atleast they have story and gameplay. No one would get upset if Japan was the land of the platformers and every game played like Mario, right? |
I don't know how you can say that every good game in the US will sell well. I hear a lot of people complain about good new IPs or other classics like Ico, Shadow of Colossus, or Okami.
If you looked at the top selling games of last year, a large majority of them went to movie tie ins, and sequel to generic sports game #23. For sports title in the US we have what looks like 2-4 different franchises PER sport and something tells me that not all of those games finds an equivalent sports franchise in Japan.
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Thanks so much for pointing that out! I don't care about FPS shooting games but there's just SOOOO freaking many of them coming out. When did this happen?! I remember the days when it was just platforms and adventure games, when the heck did it shift where every other game is now an FPS??
