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Wagram on 17 March 2010
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FranTic91 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Why do these japanese companies insist on seeing their JRPG's fail?

first they release tons of them exclusive to a console in Japan that has sold significantly lower than the other consoles

now they are shipping more to the console that clearly isn't gonna sell them (on VGChartz pre-order chart ROF PS3 version made it....not 360 version).

S-E shipped more 360 FFXIII's to the GAME, HMV & Gamestation in my town.......result the PS3 version was sold out on the first day....the 360 version was just lying there.

Why do they do this?!

JRPGs don't sell as poorly on the 360 as you think.

Infinite Undiscovery for example sold over Half-a-Million, which isn't bad for a JRPG with no pedigree (It's still a great game though-I own it).

And then you look at something like Folklore which sold what: 200k? Ouch!!! It was a good game too!

 

Plus, compare 1st week Star Ocean 4 sales on each console.

114k on PS3

262k on 360.

Plus 1st week sales were better in Japan for 360 too. I'm not trying to be a jerk or a fanboy, all I'm saying is that you're posting on the forum of a website call vgchartz, there are more than enough tools here for you to do research on before posting.

That is also an unfair comparison though. You can't expect tons of people to go out and buy a year old game for 65 dollars when it is 20 for another console. It is ridiculous.