First AAA JRPG of this generation?

[naznatips]

Impulsivity said:

naznatips said:

shio said:
The JRPG sub-genre is dieing. In the 90's it was far more popular than WRPGs, but now it is below WRPG and way below MMORPGs.

Even if you count handheld JRPG sales, it will still be below WRPGs. And MMORPGs trounce both JRPGs and WRPGs.

 

That's a ridiculous statement.  First of all, Pokemon has outsold every WRPG this gen.  Almost combined. It also outsold WoW.  Signifficantly. It also sold far more than the Pokemon games last gen, showing a strengthening of that franchise in the genre.  There are also far more million selling JRPGs this gen than WRPGs counting handhelds, and no JRPG franchise or genre has sold less this gen than it did last gen.  There is an even larger difference between million selling JRPGs and million selling MMORPGs, of which there is only one with more than a million players right now. 

Your ignorance is showing.  You might want to cover that up.

   It depends how you define sales.  For Pokemon for instance it has indeed sold tens of millions of copies vs WoW selling maybe 15-20 million copies (it has 11 million current subs, have to figure some have come and gone so the copies sold is almost certainly much higher then current subs).

   But Pokemon fans are not paying 15 dollars every month for 4 years to play.  WoW has made more in any given year in subscripton fees then Pokemon has made through its entire existance.  11 million times 15 bucks a month is 165 million per month (or 5 million DS game sales) so over the course of a year WoW makes the same ammount as 60 million sales of pokemon games, or more or less all the handheld pokemon sales combined.  That of course isn't counting the 50 bucks for the original game+expansion (or the new expansion coming out soon).  All told WoW has made at least 5 billion dollars thus far, and that total will go up another billion in the next few months between the expansion pack selling to 11 million people and the continued subscription income.

 

   Even moderately successful MMOs make huge money, for instance FFXI is making more for Square Enix then just about everything else it puts out each year combined.

 

 

WoW is certainly worth more money than Pokemon (well, ignoring the other parts of the franchise such as products, anime, card games, etc, where Pokemon makes even more in Japan than off the games), but that's not in any way the topic of discussion.  He said the JRPG genre was dying, and wasn't as popular as WRPGs or MMOs.  This is not true. 

Also source your last statement.