Baki said:
Tyrannical said:
Dear PS3 owners; You’ve made your bed, now lie in it. (HONEST article)
Well, I can see how you'd think it would be a smart investment to buy a PS3 to play jrpgs with. Given the long track record of the PS1&2 it only makes sense this would continue.
Just like with my 401k, I made wrong choices that seemed like a good idea at the time. Just as the value of my investments fell, so did the value of the PS3 as a jrpg platform. You made a bad investment, it's time to move on. |
I noticed that your gamertag is UKresistance. Isn't that the name of that website which periodically releases article berating the PS3?
@Everyone Else:
I have noticed a lot of users commenting that the Wii is ignored. Admittedly it is, this is because
A) This article was more of a response to SE statement from a few days ago.
B) The Wii is a bit of an unknown quantity, from what I've seen the JRPG's enjoy similar sales to PS3 JRPG's although it has a much larger userbase. However for other types of games it enjoys far larger sales.
That said, I haven't exactly scoured the internet in search of Wii JRPG sales in Japan so I may be wrong.
C) This article is about what could've happened, had developers supported the PS3 from the get go. There is no denying that the userbase of the PS3 would've been far more more substantial in Japan and consequently sales of games would've been far greater. Now the question is, can JRPG's on the Wii have more sales than that on the PS3? To that I would say maybe, although I would lean to it being slightly greater because of the much larger userbase. Now the problem is, what demographic exists on the Wii. We do know the Wii has a large amount of new gamers, and this is the problem with the Wii. Developers don't know what to make for it? Do they make traditional games? Or attempt to copy games like Wii-Fit etc.. There is no denying that there is a large amount of untapped potential there.
However if the developers had supported the PS3 from the beginning, they would have a platform with a comparable (maybe not larger, possibly even 2M less than the Wii right now) userbase to the Wii. That would've been a great platform to release their JRPG's on because they know that demographic is the same as the one that existed on the PS2/1. They would know their users.
Thats the general gist of the article.
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