Why Phantasy Star Zero did not sell as well as Phantasy Star Portable?

[MaxwellGT2000]

hunter_alien said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

One thing is, while neither had ads or promotion, the PSP game was put on sale the second week it was released in Gamestops gamer days sale, so the games were put into a bin front and center of every store vs the DS game that was likely buried/mixed in with every other DS game.

 

 

The US sales are pathetic when compared to the Japanese sales. PSP sold over 600k in Japan alone, while it still barely broke the 150k in the US and EU. Zero is doing better in the west it would seem, but it did terrible in Japan compared to PSP.

 

The thing is that PsP is pretty much a futuristick MHP. And thats why Japanese gamers love them. These games sell well on the PSP, but they struggle to find an audience on the DS...

Ah for some reason I had in my mind about American sales since PS0 hasn't been long hit the states, ignore me :P