First day sales in Japan - Star Ocean IV, Idolmaster SP, Shining Force DS

[Zuhyc]

whatever said:

Cactus said:

whatever said:
Consider the last 2 Star Oceans sold 374k and 396k for the first week, this is pretty bad for the franchise. Square Enix is really screwing up by not releasing this and other games on the Wii (or even the PS3). If this were on the Wii, it would have sold in the 350k+ range.

This will not get close to the sales of WKC.

What are you basing this off of? Tales is a big franchise in Japan, and it only sold approx. 150k first week.

 

And for your PS3 point, if I were Square, I would rathrer have a cheque from Microsoft and 215k LTD in Japan then no cheque from Sony and 280k LTD.

 

You do know that TOS was not a main tales game.  We'll see when the next one comes out on the Wii.  If this were on the PS3, it would have outsold WKC, probably getting close to 500k.  As a game developer, I'd rather have 2x as many people playing my games and getting into the franchise than taking cash from M$.  It's how you build a franchise into a cash cow.  SE will have sacrificed alot of future profits because there will be less fans of the franchise this generation.

 

That's something I've been thinking about as well which deserves its own topic. Everything's going good now because MS is funding the games (probably a lot, ToV sold less than Valkyria but Namco is happy while Sega is not). But once MS stops their funding, bad things might happen, sales of series is going down. Maybe the Wii will save the JRPG somewhat with Dragon Quest X, but it currently lacks big JRPG's.