Will Xenoblade sell more on Wii, or 3DS?

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Jumpin said:

Nuvendil said:
Very hard to say. Yes the Wii had the larger install base, but there were a lot of extenuating circumstances. Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii didn't catch on much in Japan resulting in it being delayed for the West and coming out in 2012 when it looked even more dated than it would have if it had launched on time. Also, it got zero fanfare coming to the west, no advertisement, no promotion, nothing. I didn't even know it existed until well after launch when I saw it on a store shelf. This was also at the end of the Wii's lifespan when the gaming core - who had been on board early on - had written off the Wii as a gimmicky casual device and stopped paying attention. The cherry on top was that it got a limited printing and was sold at one retailer chain.

The New 3DS version doesn't look like it will have to deal with that as it is a launch game for the N3DS, which means it's going to be pushed at least on some level and Xenoblade Chronicles X has put the series in the spotlight more so than it has ever been before.

With all that in mind, it could do more on N3DS, but it's not certain either way.

It came out in the west in 2011. One year after the Japanese launch, which is fairly normal for RPGs that aren't from Square.

it came to EUROPE in 2011, but it wasn't untill 2012 that the whole west got the game.