| ListerOfSmeg said:
Wii is REGION LOCKED PS3 IS NOT REGION LOCKED
When you understand the difference get back to me. Otherwise its pointless to argue with you because you have shown a clear lack of understanding of the argument. You even go so far as to claim 1/ 3rd of SS sales should be from other regions. First SS wasnt exclusive to 1 region and it also was on a region locked console. So people that imported it couldnt even play it. People constantly argue that region free is important. Idf that is true then Yakuza sales should back it up but they dont. I am not trying to be rude but honestly you dont understand whats being said here. You are naming off games on a region locked console to counter that Region free is important. That doesnt even make sense.. |
Either my grammar is off, or you have completely miss understood what I said :/
I was talking about Yakuza’s sales in reference to Skyward Sword, not SS itself. You were claiming Yakuza's sales to be unimpressive because it was region free. I was saying that while yes, Skyward Sword is region locked; yakuza still outsold it in Japan by over 200,000 copies. That would mean you either think Skyward Sword (and proportionally SMG2) have unimpressive sales in japan, or you would be saying that over 1/3 of Yakuza’s sales were imports, as that’s the only way you could claim its sales to be less then Skywards Sword’s in Japan (which would mean that, combined with its western sales, yakuza 3 sold more outside of Japan than inside. Seeing as it’s about as Japanese as a game can get, I think you will agree that’s rather absurd). It can only be one of those two ^^
So either you've gona a bit nutty, or you would be admitting that at least two of Nintendo’s biggest franchises having undesirable sales in Japan (on a platform with a bigger install base no less, since you seem to love throwing that around) :P take your pick~
And yes, region free is important, but when it comes to Japanese games that applies to a very small minority (Japanese is not a language commonly spoken outside of Japan, like most Asian languages). I myself like region free because it lets me play US games on EU consoles, which can be very convenient since the EU gets a lot of late releases. People living pretty much anywhere except the US would probably feel the same. (Occasionally Europe gets a game first :P occasionally… ¬_¬).
PS: I’m not saying your logic isn’t correct, just the scale you are claiming it applies too. I’m sure being region free does increase the sales of Japanese games, but it’s very unlikely to be any more than a few % for the biggest released, let alone a game as niche in the west as Yakuza. ~
Edit: I should also note, the 600k is not for worldwide, it's just japan. You seemed confused about that earlier. Worldwide is closer to about 1 million each. Its sales outside of Japan were pretty impressive considering the nature of the game.
