Why did ni no kuni and xenoblade go so bad in japan, compared to the west?

[outlawauron]

Screamapillar said:

It's just a matter of platforms. For most of Wii's life, there were simply no JRPG's, and all of the sudden there were three or four major JRPG's released three or four years into the Wii's lifespan. By then, the people who wanted console JRPG's had long since purchased a PS3 to get what they wanted.

Xenoblade, Last Story, Pandora's Tower... unfortunately, were all too little too late.

These games need to come out within the first two years of a console's life, not in year four or five.

Had any of the above been made for PS3 instead of Wii they would have sold far more copies.

TLS, Xenoblade, and Pandora's Tower will have come out in the US in the 6th and 7th year. Console is already dead when it gets the games that it needed years ago.