Rumor: Square Enix and Microsoft teaming up again for E3

[LordMatrix]

Ravage27 said:

LordMatrix said:

Ravage27 said:

LordMatrix said

Lost Odyssey is stil the best sellign exclusive JRPG btw

you know that's not true. Anyway i doubt VP will be an exclusive, Tri-Ace have to be borderline retarded if they want to repeat their SO4 mistake. This is a franchise that can profit from Japan's sales alone and SE isn't going to kill it with stupid timed exclusivity on a system with the fewest JRPG fans.

White Knight Chronicles is the only one that has come close. I am speaking about this generation only BTW. Star Ocean 4 did just fine. I agree that it likely will not be exclusive but it may be timed though. Either way idc because I will be able to play it. I would prefer it to be Multi on day one so that more people can play it right out of the gate but if it is timed those that want it right away will get it then and those that want to wait will buy it later. Star Ocean:TLH did better on X360 than WKC did on PS3 as an exclusive title no less.

 

Current sales according to vgchartz:

Lost Odyssey 810,000

White Knight Chronicles 530,000

 

 

I was actually referring to Valkyria Chronicles, which sold more than LO. Anyway, it isn't fair to compare SO4 with WKC. On one hand you have a new IP and on the other a huge franchise(2nd only to FF&DQ) with a following dating back to the SNE days (SO1,SO2,SO:BS,SO3,SO4).  Do you really think SO4 will receive the same abysmal sales had it released day one as a PS3 exclusive or even as a multiplat?

Well considering SO4 made roughly around Lost Odyssey sales if you combine both X360 and PS3 than no! I actually don't agree that the sales are bad. PS3 may likely would have sold more than it did or maybe it wouldn't have. The whole belief that JRPG fans are mainly on PS3 is a total hoot tbh. People should have seen it coming before the launch of the X360 because we already knew Enchanted Arms was coming along with a mystery JRPG from Namco (Eternal Sonata) and that Final Fantasy 11 was coming to X360. These were all signs that things were going to be better this generation for JRPG fans w/ X360's. Only Sony fan's were blinded by this and believed no matter what PS3 would be like PS2 and hog the spotlight. 

In turn no Star OCean 4 did not sell bad IMO and it is up in the air how big of a difference it would have made if it was multi right out of the gate. If you want a game bad enough for a specific system than go get it for that system. I for one am an impatient man so I will give 2 examples of my own here: Virtua Fighter 5 and Unreal Tournament 3...both these titles were timed exclusives for PS3 I picked them up when they came out and later down the line traded them in and picked up the X360 version's because it is my system of choice. If anyone is a gamer like myself who wants to have the game on their preferred platform if the option comes around than they likely would have done the same type of thing sooner or later.