So Can I expect to play any Square-Enix games in my PS3 this year?

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Aiemond said:

The Anarchyz said:

twesterm said:

1. If you live in Japan you might see FFXIII this year but that's an awful big maybe.  Personally I don't think it's going to happen.
   
2. To you people saying SO4 bombed-- RPG's (especially JRPG's that don't have Final Fantasy in the title) generally don't sell well. 200k is respectable.  Hell, I wouldn't be surprised to see the JRPG go the way of the point and click adventure.
   

 

You could say that 200k respectable speech if we say new IPs or regular JRPG franchises, but, this is STAR OCEAN, not at the heights of the huge ones: Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, but its one of the ones that manage to pass the million line...

Look at Star Ocean: Till the End of Time sales:

Japan: 500k (400k first week)

US: 740k (Probably between 250k and 500k first week)

EU: 90k

Total: 1.33M (1.24M with only Japan+US)

Now look at Star Ocean: The Last Hope sales:

Japan: 185k (160k first week)

US: 60k first week (With a 16.58 million userbase, it's not like Japan)

Total: 245k

If the game continues to sell like this in the US and Japan, i'll be surprised if it gets to half of SO3 numbers, and that's really bad for the franchise...

 

I think the most unrealistic aspect of all these fanboy posts is the belief that all these RPG fans are somehow only on Sony systems even though the games they love are mostly on other systems. This may be true in Japan (thought they are on the wii there too as well) but it sure as hell is not true in America. Seriously, I find it hard to believe that rpg fans are somehow more loyal to sony that to the games they love. It is not too hard to sell a ps3 and get a 360. And if they are more loyal to sony, well, that is their problem and its their own fault they are not playing many rpgs this gen.

 

Well since the Japanese data is all we have to go on, since the JRPG's available on the PS3 in the west were time-exclusives and the one exclusive JRPG PS3 has is an SJRPG the numbers from WKC in japan seem to indicate that among the HD consoles PS3 has the fanbase for JRPG's unlike the 360.