New Valkyrie of the Battlefield Video (Action RPG)

[Rath]

jhlennon1 said:

Rath 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

In Japan at least DQ>FF.

In fact I'm willing to bet that DQIX will outsellf FFXIII significantly worldwide. FF worldwide numbers have been dropping since VII while DQ has been rising since V. This generation DQ will be the king of RPGs.

 

They have been dropping or are you just referring to FFXII?

Because FFX outsold FFVIII and FFIX. And the last FF of a generation sells the least? That's a shock.

Using your logic, please explain FFIX selling 5.3mil while FFX selling 7.95mil? Because 5.3 mil is similar to FFXII numbers that didn't carry on to FFXIII numbers. See? too many flaws in the "FF series is dying" logic.

And expect a MASSIVE marketing blitz from Sony for FFXIII. That will definitely happen. Kitase has already started it by making the bold statement with his FFVII level improvement comparisons.

 

And unless S-E can change how DQ is viewed by the US DQIX will not be king of anything and it will have to do phenomenal numbers in Japan to beat FFXIII WW.

 Actually I missed FFIX when I was looking through the numbers, my mistake.

I would be very suprised as I said earlier if DQIX doesn't outsell FFXIII, with PS3 having a smaller userbase (and it still will by when FF is released) in comparison to the PS1/PS2 and with JRPGs already being a fairly niche genre outside of Japan. On the otherhand the DS is a cultural phonemenon in Japan which is practically the only place DQ sells. I just can't see FF>DQ this time around.