Dark Souls Producer says Wii U audience doesn't care about Dark Souls.

[Michael-5]

oniyide said:

Michael-5 said:

So much wrong with this....

First of all you're over-generalizing. XenoBlade, Last Story, and Pandora's Tower are 3 JRPG's which are not mainstream, and also Nintendo. So with your category's no one wants these games, yet XenoBlade sold as well as a typical Tales of title.

Second of all, Dungeons and Dragons is a WRPG Board game. It has a completely different demograph then the JRPG fanbase, so if anything very few people would like both D&D & Dark Souls

Third, I think any truly hardcore JRPG fan is by definition also a Nintendo fan. Like I said above, many of the best JRPG's tend to be Nintendo or Sony exclusives. XenoBlade Chronicles for Wii, as well as Infinite Space for DS, Fire Emblem Awakening for 3DS, Baten Kaitos for Gamecube, Golden Sun for GBA, Tactics Ogre for N64, Chrono Trigger for SNES, etc, etc have been among the best JRPG of their respective generations. How can you be a real hardcore JRPG fan, and not a Nintendo fan at the same time? I fit into this category.

its actually quite easy if you started gaming in the PS era then that system had the best library for JRPGs period, nothing else came close. N64 had like a dozen titles in that category. That passed on to PS2, which had a better JRPG library. One could make an argument for GBA in those days but most of those were ports...which isnt bad.

Before PS1 SNES was JRPG king, and after PS1 Nintendo still dominated the JRPG scene on handhelds. Yes a lot of handheld JRPG's were ports, but that isn't a bad thing. Many SNES/PS1 era Japan only JRPG's first localized on the GBA/DS (e.g. Final Fantasy III), and a lot of games were really fun remakes (FF I, 2, 4-6 really felt good on the GBA). Plus to be fair, a lot of great handheld JRPG's aren't ports. Pokemon, Radiant Historia, Infinite Space, Golden Sun, Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest IX, etc.

As for console RPG's, yes PS is still the RPG machine, but Nintendo has still managed to get a must have RPG in each gen. XenoBlade is arguably the best JRPG this gen, and The Last Story isn't far behind. N64 also had some real gems with Tactics Ogre and Paper Mario. Gamecube had some great stuff too with Skies of Arcadia, Tales of Symphonia, and Baten Kaitos. With Nintendo consoles being the cheapest, a real hardcore JRPG fan likely owns all the Nintendo systems as well.

P.S. I think a hardcore JRPG fan also owns a 360 too. Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery, all great, and all pretty cheap now.