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Gilgamesh on 08 December 2008
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BengaBenga said:
Gilgamesh said:

(on his knees praying) please let this game be a huge hit

Sure wish I knew what there definition of a "successful" game is, selling more then a million?, more then two million? five million??? I don't know but in my opinion it'll probably hit two million max. But two million would be a pretty big success, for a knew game like that.

 

2 million? There's not a single JRPG on the 360 that has crossed 1 million. If WKC sells a million it will be a huge success, but I highly doubt it will happen. There's no JRPG fanbase on the PS3 (yet) and I imagine quite some JRPG fans bought a 360. Biggest PS3 game so far in Japan is MGS4 with some 650k copies. I think we can all agree that WKC won't do even half of that. And PS3 is strongest in the least JRPG minded region: Europe.

And still no-one has actually explained to me how Level 5 can be an asset for Sony. I don't see how they're ever going to make money on that.

JRPG's sell really well in Japan as we all know that, and compared to the PS3 the userbase of the X360 is pretty small, and I was talking about LTD of 2 million and a big chunk of that is going to be from Japan. By the end of the generation it's safe to say that the userbase in Japan for the PS3 will be a minimum of 6 million PS3's. So let's say that WKC sold 750K in Japan LTD, well then for the rest of the world another 1.25 million which looks reasonable.

In time Level 5 will be a pretty big company and it would be smart for Sony to have them on there side. Like you said there's not much of a JRPG fanbase on the PS3 but Level 5 can be there trump card with that genre, there known for making top quality games. And you can't really rely on Square-Enix with that genre because from what I've seen it wouldn't surprise me if they completely abandoned the PS3 and went to another console to make FFXIV.