What's up with Wii in Japan?

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Top selling home console jrpgs (not including handhelds in this)

Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) 3.68m
Pokemon Battle Revolution (Wii) 1.45m
Monster Hunter Tri (Wii) 1.21m
Final Fantasy XIII (X360) 1.14m
Valkyria Chronicles (PS3) 0.89m
Lost Odyssey (X360) 0.83m
Dragon Quest Swords (Wii) 0.64m
The Last Remnant (X360) 0.63m
Star Ocean 4 (X360) 0.62m
White Knight Chronicles (PS3) and Infinite Undiscovery (X360) 0.57m each

The Wii has a Pokemon Stadium type of game, Monster Hunter Tri and a Dragon Quest spin-off on there. What do those three games have in common? They have franchise name value.

That`s the thing. Of course most of the Wii jrpgs aren`t going to sell all that well. They don`t have much name value or advertising to support the games. If you put a game with a name on the Wii, it`ll sell. This doesn`t always work out for spin-offs though. It depends. The Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Chocobo`s Dungeons games didn`t sell all too well. But Dragon Quest Swords did pretty well in Japan.