jarrod on 03 May 2010
| loves2splooge said: 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. |
You're missing Super Paper Mario. It's also a pure Action RPG and it would place a somewhat close 2nd at the moment. When this generation's over, Wii will probably have more million selling JRPGs (SPM, DQX, DQM Battle Road, MH3) than PS3 & 360 combined (FFXIII, FFvsXIII).
