According to the JP Preview, WKC may be the best selling HD JRPG in Japan!

[ShadowSoldier]

c0rd said:

dolemit3 said:

Skittles said:

Groucho said:

Why is this a surprise?

The number of PS3s in Japan easily tops the number of 360s. Of course it would be the largest HD JRPG in Japan ever released... its like.. the PS3's first JRPG. (I don't count Folklore and VC as traditional JRPGs)

Why haven't Wii JRPGS sold tons then

Because the Wii owners, unlike the PS3 owners don't care less for JRPGs. Mario games only for them.

Haven't you noticed why DMJ had to include the "HD" JRPG as a conditional?

		Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors		Square Enix			0.50m
		Pokemon Batoru Reboryūshon		Nintendo			0.31m
		Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World		Namco Bandai			0.22m

WKC has yet to top any of these. It will overtake the Tales spinoff next week, but lifetime against Pokemon should be close. It doesn't have a chance at the Dragon Quest spinoff.

Big name JRPG's on the Wii will sell, period. Have we already forgotten the announcement that DQX is arriving on the Wii? edit: Forgot to mention MH3. Only Mario on the Wii, right?

OT: Sales are a little better than I expected, not bad. Still, the PS3 hasn't quite yet proven it can sell JRPG's better than the 360 worldwide, which was the argument (I thought) some of the "Xbots" claimed, one I agree with. As for people calling Square-Enix idiots for putting their games on the 360, I'm not sure what to think... if you're implying WKC showed the PS3 is a more viable JRPG platform, I suggest looking at the Wii's DQ spinoff, which opened at 310k first week over a year ago.

Ok so your saying that WKC wont be able to overtake the DQ spin off or any other Xbox game when it goes world wide which it seems more plausible given the fact the game outsold almost every JRPG's release in its stronghold on the Xbox in its first week and your saying it wont overtake any of those LTD sales?

Lets ignore the fact that Dragon Quest Swords has failed to pass a Million and its gone worldwide already or lets forget the fact that all the JRPG's on the 360 were released worldwide and lets look at the Japanese numbers. With The Last Remnant only selling 140,000 so far in Japan WKC has surpassed that. Blue Dragon which has been out since 06 has only 210,000 copies sold in Japan. Lost Odyssey which is the most successful JRPG(WorldWide) on the 360 sold a pitiful 100,000 LTD in Japan. And Finally the Best JRPG on the X360 Tales of Vesperia has only sold 160,000 copies in Japan so far and thats an Established title.

Most Wii RPGs have failed to go the 1m mark while it seems that WKC is on its way

So GTFO