Media Create first day sales 12/25 (WKC @ 132k)

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MontanaHatchet said:

"Flagship SCEJ JRPG for the past 3 years" is like saying you're the flagship Sega SRPG. I don't remember a lot of hype for this game back in 2005, but then again, I wasn't checking gaming sites as much.

Apparently you missed the meaning of me saying they were lesser known. They are lesser known than developers/publishers such as Namco Bandai and Square Enix, although perhaps more known than Spike or Nippon Ichi.  There are a lot of examples of developers and/or publishers they could be more or less known than.

And by the way, are you just going to quote everything I say? By slowing traction, I meant that the game could help (if only a small amount) to convince Japanese developers that the PS3 is an able platform for selling their RPGs (since it hasn't proven it can yet and the 360 has proven it can to a small degree). The 360 has become more favorable among some developers during their use for developing games (often partially funded by Microsoft). It doesn't even have to do entirely with sales.

 

Bolded ones make me laugh aloud. In Japan Level5 is a famous developer ( and publisher thanks to the Layton serie on DS ).

How could you be not famous if you do the coding for Dragon Quest games ?

The problem of the JRPG genre is that its primary market ( the japanese one ) is declining ( have you seen the declining of the Tales of serie in the past years ? ) and that if you want to make a JRPG with top graphic on PS3 or Xbox360 you'll need to spend a lot on the assets despite the fact that the userbase of Xbox360 and PS3 combined in Japan is relatively small ( and if you can't recoup the costs  in Japan you hardly do on western regions unless you are named Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts ).

It is really unsurprisig that publishers like SquareEnix and Namco are accepting funding by MS for their most costly JRPG ( they can release the same game on the PS3 too ).

And it is unsurprising that JRPG are flocking on DS.