I've always known Star Ocean was never a big franchise.

[Euphoria14]

Shadowblind said:

Euphoria14 said:

Shadowblind said:

Euphoria14 said:

jpain333 said:

Max King of the Wild said:

jpain333 said:
if I could get a dollar for everytime I read something negative about 360 jrpg's by sony fanboys.....

can't we at least wait a couple more weeks before we start judging the games sales?? I mean damn lets see how the legs are in N.America first...

if i had a nickle everytime starcraft said something negative about k2 id be richer than you

nice try.....

if you think that killzone 2 thread was worse than all the negative talk about 360 jrpgs...then I don't know what to tell you...

You do realize the only reason people get on them like that is because originally it was the 360 fans who said the PS3 couldn't sell JRPGs. Now that they are continuosly getting proven wrong it has reverted to damage control.

In WKC case, right off the bat sales were shot down with arguments like "install base", yet when I made my comparison above it seems that the argument no matter matters in this case. They can't have it both ways.

@Shadowblind

About TLR.

Check this from this very same thread. I guess you chose to ignore this huh?

Hero_time88 said:
http://www.square-enix.com/eng/pdf/news/20090216_01en.pdf

 

TLR = 490k shipped at the end of 2008?

 

So according to VGChartz, considering it released WW on Nov. 20th, that would imply by the end of 2008 it sold between 436k-484k. So it pretty much almost completely sold out WW and only had between 6k-54k copies remaining on store shelves Worldwide. Then after that it went on to sell almost 30% more copies?

I hope they have fun trying to prove that.

If not, I would say the game is obviously overtracked.

 

 

 

I'm sorry, I was unaware that we are still living in 2008. At the same time I suppose I should have ignored this post in the first place as well, as you seem to have ignored my response, albeit a short one, to Max. Though I would like you to point me to all these great selling PS3 JRPGs while your at it.

 

Show me an exclusive PS3 JRPG first.

Not a SRPG.

Well now we have a problem. When does WKC come out in the US?

P.S. I dont really know if Folklore is a JRPG or not, but it sold 200k. Judging from its release date and name though, I'd guess it is.

 

What I am saying here is that facts already show that even with a smaller install base the PS3 already sells better in terms of SJRPGs than the XBox360 so why do people assume it won't be the case with JRPGs? Going by the same userbase argument it can be said that PS3 SJRPG in the US sell almost on par with US JRPG sales on the 360 outside of a title like Lost Odyssey, which was also the 360's first big JRPG, just as WKC will be. So why will do people think it won't sell too?

As I said before, WKC will have to sell 100k lifetime in the US and 30k in it's first week in order for me to be proven wrong.

 

This is a HUGE double standard by so many in this thread.

 

@Stickball

It sold 350k in the US on only 2 days worth of sales. It has over 750k sales for it's "First Week".

Look around the forum as well, majority of this site predicted 500-1M first week sales with the median being 750k.

How did it fail for us and the hype when the "hype" predicted pretty much the same sales it had?