White Knight Chronicles sales predictions?

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BengaBenga said:

Squall_Leonhart said:

I think Sony's main gain would be to finally have an RPG department within their 1st party studios, and we all know how big RPG's are in Japan, and usually all round the world (as seen with the FF games) so this would be nothing but a good thing!

Depending how much they would want for them to be bought, as that could be painful lol

 

The thing is that having a JRPG department would not help Sony in any way. JRPGs simply aren't that popular anymore. Sure the big franchises are succesfull and FF and DQ are definitely system sellers, but the average RPG isn't.

The Japanese market alone doesn't warrant the millions Sony would have to pay for L5. When is the last non-big franchise RPG that broke 500k in Japan.

The sales aren't as good as they used to be but I am sure it is simply because a lot of the high profile JRPGs this gen aren't that great.  S-E should be ashamed of releasing The Last Remnant in it's unpolished state.  Keep that up and JRPGs will go the way of adventure games.