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jarrod on 09 December 2010
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Boutros said:
jarrod said:
huaxiong90 said:

Also, lmao at Tales of Graces F. Tales obviously belongs on Sony consoles. Now let's hope they bring them to the West too.

Problem is, Tales games do the worst on PlayStations outside Japan.  They pretty much all bombed on PS1/PS2/PSP here.

I've always said, Namco should be making each and every Tales game multiplatform to really maximize their audience.  That way you hit the PS audience inside Japan (where the series tends to sell best) and the Nintendo audience outside Japan (where the series tends to sell best).  Abyss not releasing on GameCube, when Symphonia did a whopping 500k plus on the system in the US alone, was one of Namco's stupider decisions in recent memory... 

This gen is obviously different. Look at Tales of Symphonia 2. I'm pretty sure a Tales of game would sell better on the PS3 in the west. I mean even Disgaea 3 nearly sold more :/

ToS2 was an ultra low budget spinoff, supposedly pretty shitty, and yet it still sold nearly 200k US.  It actually sold on par with Vesperia 360 (which was far higher budget/quality), and both sold better than every PS1/PS2/PSP Tales game has in America.

I'm not convinced PS3 has a better audience for Tales games than PS2 did either.  You bring up Disgaea, but that series sold better on PS2 even... I'm not sure why you'd think it'd be the opposite for Tales exactly?  Has *any* RPG series sold better on PS3 than they did on PS2?