Groucho on 09 January 2009
| Soriku said: There hasn't been any new JRPG announcements for the HD consoles recently, while the Wii's got a good deal of them. Arc Rise Fantasia, Tales of Ten, DQ X, etc. are all exclusive. They wouldn't go multiplat. And why wouldn't a Wii JRPG cost less than an HD one? You can't compare FF XIII to Arc Rise Fantasia or something. Though I think I probably read that part wrong... |
FF XIII is kinda the exception. All FF games are pretty high production value since FF VII. That's not really a commonplace comparison.
JRPGs, due to their low project costs and relatively low demographic appeal outside of Japan, are probably mush easier to swing special exclusive deals with, than gmaes like FPSes. Nintendo might discount their licensing fees to a small, but respected JRPG publisher, for producing an exclusive, for example, and the publisher may not care much about sales outside of Japan (esp. with the strong Yen), anyway.
JRPGs are definately a genre where the Wii can (and will I believe) shine in the near term.
