jarrod on 17 January 2010
| makingmusic476 said: Why would the game sell better on Wii in Japan? Tales of Graces and Sengoku Musou 3 didn't exactly light up the charts compared to Tales of Vesperia (a port), Shin Sangoku Musou 6, and Gundam Musou 2. The fanbases for old popular Japanese ps2 franchises seems to be split, with the majority going to ps3. The only exception seems to be Monster Hunter, but the franchise's popularity has grown immensely over the past couple of years due to the success of the PSP titles. If FFXIII had been announced from the getgo for Wii, things would probably be different, but you might as well call the Wii the ps3 if you're going to change that many variables. |
Graces got killed by FFXIII, no question. Had Vesperia PS3 switched release dates with it, they'd have probably switched sales numbers too. Pretty much no one expected it to sell what Symphonia KOR did.
Sengoku Musou 3 did pretty well though, and Sengoku tends to sell worse than Sangoku regardless. Even so, it's only 50k behind SSM5, which is better than usual for the series (SM2 was over 350k behind SSM4 on PS2).
And there's other PS2 series seeing equal success on Wii vs last gen besides Monster Hunter. Taiko no Tatsujin, DQ spinoffs, Biohazard Chronicles (versus Gun Survivor), Momotaru Dentetsu, Fatal Frame, etc. I'm betting expecting DQX equals or outsells DQVIII.
