Valkyria Chronicles outsells The Last Remnant (360)

[outlawauron]

jarrod said:

outlawauron said:

hanafuda said:
VC had very little promotion in Japan, and the anime came after the launch.

jarrod deeply believes, for reasons I can't explain, that Valkyria Chronicles had a huge amount of advertisement. I feel you are quite suited to make a comment on the advertisement though. I'd love to the conversation.

TV cms, in-store promos, an anime (coinciding with the BEST version) a good 2 years of coverage in Famitsu (1 year after release even, basically unheard of for a non FF/DQ/MH game) tell me Sega didn't skimp on this.  It's not FFXIII or MH3 or anything, but it's gotten a far, far bigger promotion than any SRPG I can think of.  Got a bigger ad blitz than any Sega game last year too bar the Yakuza games.

Why do people think it got little promotion actually?

I'm not going to think that Famitsu giving the game coverage (this thing did get DLC and has more on the way) qualifies as advertisement when it's reporting on expansions and DLC, which is what most of the coverage was.

I will say this. I don't live in Japan, but I can comment on what we see from commericials, magazine ads, etc. We also get a lot of information from people living in Japan. I'm not sure where you live jarrod, but I do know hanafuda lives in Japan and I'd trust his word on the matter.