| Zim said: If WKC goes on to be the best selling HD JRPG worldwide then it's something to celebrate this is not considering you have eliminated all competition in the wii, psp, ds. Hell the fact you are even comparing the PS3 to 360 as a sign of success shows how amazing microsoft have been doing this gen in Japan. Last generation how many people would have used the xbox as a benchmark for the PS2 in Japan? No one. Whereas now suddenly beating the 360 in Japan is an achievement for the PS3. Anyway if WKC is the best selling HD RPG worldwide then great very impressive. Being the best selling rpg in japan compared to the 360 isn't exactly a champagne moment. Realistically WKC should be able to get to a million worldwide. It's not cell shaded or stylized graphics which definetly helps in america and europe. Realistic RPG's clearly do better there, so that should help. It probably won't do as well as LO in America but should do better in others. I think there's a lot of casual PS3 fans that bought the console expecting lots of rpgs to keep coming like on the ps2 so they will snap up WKC when they get the chance. So yea im waiting to see if it can beat LO. |
There is nothing to celebrate, it's just a plain fact (well, we'll know for sure soon enough) put in the OP title, that people have problem coping with.
You can play dumb (trolling?), but I'll tell you what went far over your head: the XB360 is not the benchmark for the PS3 sales in Japan, it just happens to be the only HD competitor there, and the one whom people were saying is the "JRPG king". This just proves all of these talks were pipe dreams. Talking about the HD JRPG is just there not to talk about Wii JRPG which still sold more than the other console ones in Japan.
And casuals never were into JRPG, stop the nonsense. JRPG are still niche outside of Japan, despite what you want to believe. WRPG a bit less thanks to the numerous ones on PC, thus why japanese devs try to westernize their JRPG (and fail). BUt JRPG never were a casual thing in the West. And especially in Europe.
If you were living in Europe, you would know that most JRPG are not even localized there, so they just can't appeal to casuals. Most of Europe doesn't have English as its mother language, and most people in the biggest markets (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) are not used to subtitles. As most JRPG there get shitty english dubs with subtitles, and a lot don't even get localized to anything beyond english (Persona are in english, Valkyria too, ...), JRPG just can't be popular in Europe.
Of course, the OP wasn't talking about anything besides Japan, where the JRPG sales matter.
