| Cunning_Linguist said: Ar Tonelico 3, Hyperdimension: Neptunia, Valkyria Chronicles 3, Atelier Totori, WKC2, Trinity:Souls, plus many I have forgotten plus a gazillion portable ones. I would venture there will be more JRPG releases on home consoles this year than any other this gen so far. |
Yeah i said something similar to this earlier in this thead, about how loads of JRPGs have been localised in Europe like never before. Magna Carta 2, Resonance of Fate, Altier Ronda: Alchemist of Arland, Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery, Agarest, Eternal Sonata, Last Rebellion etc. i think part of the reason is Microsoft have helped developers localise JRPGs so they can target the JRPG market here in the west.
anyway i'm not sure if 200,000 copies sold in Europe (or whatever sold in the west) qualifies as success for the JRPG developers. but i think we will see more localisations in future for consoles, because the console market here is a lot bigger than in Japan, which is smaller now than it used to be. so developers rely now more on the western sales than they have done in the past.
here in the west i would say JRPGs are actully growing in interest. also partly to do with the proliferation of anime and manga here, that wasnt present before. i think the only reason people think RPGs are in decline are because of the handheld focus in Japan, and the weak shoulders of the Final Fantasy series recently. Japan, dosent have that problem because there are more important JRPGs there than FF.
