| badgenome said: Are there Tales fans who own and even prefer Nintendo systems? Sure. But the sales make it pretty clear where the audience primarily resides. It's not even close. It isn't as simple as larger install base = more sales. The 3DS has outsold the Vita many times over now, but it's not uncommon for multiplatform games to sell more on the Vita. More relevant to this discussion, Tales of Graces F vastly outsold Tales of Graces despite being a late port to a system with a much smaller install base. |
The sales make it pretty clear indeed, the audiences are about the same. time and time again, the tales of games had similar numbers on Nintendo and PS systems. and for a long time, tales of symphinia was the best selling in the franchise, on 1 quarter of the ps3's installed base.
I'll explain it even better. The franchise's best selling entries barely sold above 1 million when released WW. Yet, the ones released on nintendo systems keep getting a consistend 500k+ (if you consider some of them would be released outside japan), wich is pretty much what we see on PS platforms.
