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

[johnsobas]

Zlejedi said:

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.

 

I think those 3 wii examples prove that Wii sells jRPG badly :) WKC at ToS level after 1 week and should easily catch up to Pokemon in next month, only Dragon Quest might be out of reach

all 3 of those wii games are spin offs and budgets don't begin to compare with WKC.  Fire Emblem and Tales have shown that RPGs on the wii can do well in the west as well.