Torillian said:
A TV commercial certainly does. You show me a TV commercial for any of those supposedly just as Niche JRPGs that you listed. Hell, Demon's Souls and VC didn't have TV commercials either even though they're probably closer to the budget of Lost Odyssey. Budgets aren't higher by much? Atelier titles continue to get sequels before Western sales even come in, so Atelier Ayesha got a sequel based off of 130,000 sales in Japan. That's the kind of budget those games have, do you honestly think Lost Odyssey would make a profit off of 130,000 sales? The idea of comparing "new IP JRPG selling ability" by looking at games in completely different situations is ridiculous. Want a new IP JRPG to look at?Resonance of Fate which is actually a reasonable comparison because they're in the exact same situation. Same game, same budgets, same marketting campaigns, and it's a new IP. |
If two jrgs come out at the same time with the same development budget and one has a commercial and the other doesnt and the one with the commercial sucks ass and the one without the commercial is incredible and their both new IPs ill say the one without the commercial will do betteroverall.