naznatips said:
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. |
Pokemon did outsell every WRPG this gen, but the other jRPGs didn't follow Pokemon. There are considerably more wRPGs coming out than jRPGs - the strength is in numbers. jRPGs have handhelds under wraps, but wRPGs have PC and Consoles.
As for MMORPGs. don't delude yourself, MMOs are machines. Do you know how many total subscribers Lineage 2 had? Over 14 millions. Not bad for a MMORPG with only a tenth of WoW's success. Everquest, which peaked at 500k active subscribers, sold 3.5 millions copies.
There are dozens of millions of gamers playing mmos every month, and will get bigger with the boom in continental Asia and more MMO acceptance in the west. Also go check gamerankings and you'll notice the vast amount of mmos coming out compraed to jrpgs and wrpgs.
