Dear JRPG Developers; You’ve made your bed, now lie in it. (HONEST article)

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Kasz216 said:

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

The Anarchyz said:

Like i said, we discussed the Japan issue with consoles in a lot of threads, and we came to the same conclusion about the Xbox brand being American...

And about the other brands, i said "survived", not "beat down the competition" because i don't have the sales of them vs the competition (and i might add, Windows doesn't have J-competitors and the other brands are not having a war like the Xbox is having with the Playstation)...

But if you like to give a better explanation of why the Xbox brand is not that popular in Japan despite having a JRPG with part of the Chrono Trigger Dream Team, a JRPG with part of the Final Fantasy original team, a Tales JRPG and two Tri-Ace JRPGs (one of them a popular established franchise), be my guest...

In Japan, and to a lesser extent in Europe, people prefer to think the goods they buy are of high quality.  And low price is not as much of a selling point as it is in America: it tends to connote shoddy quality.

 

 

i believe the effects of the 360 price drop would disagree with you there.

The reason it's doing bad in japan is because JRPGs outside a few namebrands don't matter.

The reason why Playstation is doing better in Europe is becuase osny was the first company to make a real effort in europe.

Sega and espiecially Nintendo's distribution and setups in europe were laughable.

 

What I said is consistent with price drop effects: yeah, lower prices have an effect, but in the areas that aren't so discount-oriented, but instead quality-oriented, PS3 does better in general vs. 360.  PS3 will see a boost in EU and Japan from a price drop, too.

As for Japan: does the PS3 have exclusives on those JRPG namebrands you mentioned?  Because it's beating the hell out of 360.

As for Europe: then it was a horrible blunder for Microsoft not to make an effort there when they wanted to be successful in the console business...oh wait, as I type that, it does't sound reasonable at all.  Nope, the more consistent explanation of sales, given how much cheaper 360 is, is that there's a perception that the 360 is a second-rate console.