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loves2splooge on 18 October 2009
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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
perpride said:
@kenryoku - you are agreeing with me here right???

For the most part.  The media and reviewers clearly have a bias towards Final Fantasy, comparing EVERY RPG to it.  But I don't think FFXII was the best JRPG of last gen and a large part of the reason people think it was is because of the hype and media attention behind it.

Boneitis said:
LF-A said:
Maybe wii, choosing to release on 360 has been quite the sales failure of a decision.

To the contrary Lost Odyssey is one of the best selling JRPGs this gen. Blue Dragon also did pretty well for a crappy game.

I'm sure Microsoft pays a pretty penny for exclusivity and the games tend sell a fairly well even with a smaller Japanese userbase. I don't understand at all how its a "failure of a decision."

As has been shown many times before, plenty of DS and PSP JRPGs have done much better than Lost Odyssey.  In fact, they make Lost Odyssey (and most Mistwalker games) look pretty avg.  When most of the SquareEnix RPGs on the DS or PSP are selling between 800,000-2 million units (and then you got stuff like DQIX going for 4 million), stuff like Lost Odyssey is nowhere near one of the best selling JRPGs of this gen.

Now, if you want to say 'one of the best selling CONSOLE JRPGs', maybe.  But its just been proven that JRPGs are doing poorly on consoles so that's not a big achievement.

Only a handful of PS2 jrpg IPs out of a gazillion jrpgs on the console sold better than what Lost Odyssey did. Let's list them off.

Final Fantasy X

Final Fantasy XII

Kingdom Hearts

Final Fantasy X-2

Dragon Quest VIII

Kingdom Hearts II

Dragon Quest V (Japan-only remake port)

Star Ocean 3

Dark Cloud

That's a pretty exclusive list dominated by Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, Star Ocean (which sold 250,000+ less than Lost Odyssey this generation. SO4 will only beat LO when it goes multi-plat) and Dark Cloud. The fact that Lost Odyssey would make the "top 10" on the PS2 list is very impressive considering how over-saturated PS2 was with jrpgs and how big the PS2 install base was.

Lost Odyssey is not a part of the jrpg elite (The Square-Enix triforce of Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest + Pokemon and Monster Hunter.) but I'd say 800,000+ is great for a new IP. Especially when they even beat Star Ocean this gen on the 360. That is very interesting. Both are jrpgs, on the same platform so I'd say it's a fair comparison. Star Ocean needs the benefit of going multi-plat, a benefit LO won't have, in order to win this generation.

Mistwalker should definitely continue with the Lost Odyssey series. Maybe the next time they can hit 1 million with the benefit of a larger install base this time around.