....But that doesn't mean that the West views all JRPGs the same.
Go look at ANY RPG sales chart for the west, you'll find 3 things:
#1. WRPGs do the best (duh). Oblivion, Morrowind, KOTOR, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Two Worlds, ect, do better than their counterparts of similar reviews, easily.
#2. Adult-oriented JRPGs do next best. The best example would be Final Fantasy-type RPGs. No JRPGs sell over 1m units in the US/Can except for Final Fantasy. FFXII has sold more units in the US than every (or nearly every) other JRPG released in the past 2 years here, sans Kingdom Hearts 2.
#3. Traditional, childish JRPGs do the worst. That includes RPGs like Dragon Quest (which never even cracked 500k in the US), and such.
Blue Dragon is #3. Lost Odyssey is #2. It will do better in the West, provided Microsoft actually promotes it. Not only this, launching in Febuary is a pretty good month. I, along with others, advocated that BD/ES be launched in June/July, when software was slow, rather than August/September when the traditional slew of pre-Christmas games starts launching.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
