FFCC: The Crystal Bearers sells 26,000 copies on day 1.

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outlawauron said:

jarrod said:

hanafuda said:
'3D Dot Game Heroes just came out, and showed us how a high quality niche game sells on PS3.  Not any better than Wii it turns out.The only real high budget Japanese 3rd party game we've seen on Wii was Monster Hunter 3 and it's outsold everything on the HD consoles so far.'.

Demon's Souls? VC?

Also, FF CC is a high budget JPN 3rd party Wii game.

Demon's Souls isn't 3rd party.  Valkyria Chronicles isn't really niche either (decent budget, big promotion, Sakura Taisen successor).

FFCC is pretty high budget, but it has a host of issues working against and probably would've flopped just as hard regardless of console.

No matter how much promotion a game receives, it's doesn't change what kind of game it is.

Valkyria Chronicles, even in your twisted world where it actually had advertising, will always be a niche game due to game itself.

Advertising worked for FF7 and the Final Fantasy series after that.

Advertising can make a game from a niche genre a popular game.

Up until 11.  Final Fantasy games were basically interchangeable with any other JRPG out there.  Yet FF sold a lot more simply due to the MASSIVE advertising blitz Sony paid for back in the FF7 days.

Advertising can make niche games huge... and they DEFINITLY can make niche games sell to more people who fit in that niche audience.