Garcian Smith said:
jhlennon1 said:
Kasz216 said:
jhlennon1 said:
Final Fantasy is the key title as far as JRPG's go because no other JRPG can match it's sales/success. Remembering, games like FF provide you with a userbase for other lesser JRPG's to sell based on name alone. FFXIII will sell much more then Lost Odyssey simply because XIII is a Final Fantasy game.
That is what is causing the 360 so many problems. They want to sell JRPG's when they don't have the JRPG userbase yet. They need a console selling JRPG game to get the userbase. |
Final Fantasy games are key for your average consumer. Not your average RPG player. Most people who buy Final Fantasy games are the 1 or 2 RPGS a generation type. It's brand name is why it sells. So it depends what you mean by "King of the RPGS". Do you mean sales, quality or numbers? |
Sales and quality go together usually but since Final Fantasy XIII is the only one guaranteed to get sales it makes the result pretty one-sided. And how do you know that the FF RPG type gamer is the 1 or 2 RPG a gen type gamer? That seems like a really baseless assumption. |
Because any real RPG gamer knows that there's much better stuff out there than Final Fantasy. :) FF games are usually easy, shallow, and repetitive, but with lots of glitz and presentation. In other words, the RPG for the casual gamer. |
Well... that and because they sell way more RPGs then everybody else. If you've got a buying pattern where 50 people by 1 of one product, and the rest of a similar product sell around 5 each... then you can make some pretty statistically likely assumptions.
That being, that the people buying the RPGS other then Final Fantasy are most likely about all the same people... ala Niche audience.
Therefore the majority of people who are buying FF games, arn't buyin other RPGS.
Now, for the people who are only up for 1 or 2 a generation, they're going to buy mostly on brand name, as they don't have much expierence, and want to go with what they know and are familiar with, because while an unknown name (new IP, lesser known IP) may be better or worse, with the known name... they know what they are getting.
