Materia-Blade said:
zorg1000 said:
Materia-Blade said:
I see many kind of games among wii's 50 best sellers. if you count the million sellers, the variety is really big.
whenever good rpg's are released on nintendo platforms, they sell acordingly. just check the gamecube, wich sold 1.5 million on FF crystal chronicles (a medium budget title with very restricted multiplayer) and had the best selling "tales of" untill recently.
Most nintendo fans are true gamers, with a good chunk enjoying a good rpg and sales always show that. I can't understand who would say otherwise.
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The top 50 games on Wii all fall under family-friendly multiplayer, kids games, fitness/dance/music titles, and traditional Nintendo ip. There is 1 single RPG in the top 50, 3 in the top 100 and 5 in the top 200, with only 3 selling over 1 million. The Wii audience was not big on RPGs, there is no denying that.
N64 had literally 1 RPG to sell over 1 million, Paper Mario. GC had a few decent selling RPGs, 2 Pokemon, Paper Mario, Symphonia & Crystal Chronicles.
Their have been 9 RPGs to sell over 1 million on Nintendo consoles in the 5th, 6th & 7th generations combined (over 150 million in hardware), 3 of which belong to the Paper Mario series and another 3 in the Pokemon series.
There is no denying these facts, the Wii audience was not very big on RPGs, just like N64/GC weren't either. If u were a big fan of this genre, u either needed a Playstation console or a handheld to get more than just a select few good RPGs.
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The numbers already proves the audience likes rpgs, there is no denying this fact. and what other consoles get is irrelevant to the discussion, the fact is that rpg's sell well on nintendo.
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The numbers prove that? Only 5 of the top 200 games on Wii were RPGs. Only 3 of them sold over 1 million. According to this site, Wii software sold over 930 million, RPGs make up a little over 13 million of that, or roughly 1.5% of Wii software.
Do these numbers really prove the Wii audience was big on RPGs?
