Zelda isn't big in Japan. Or is it?

[baloofarsan]

Ka-pi96 said:

baloofarsan said:

USA has 2.5 times as big population as Japan (North America is 2.8 as big) If you factor this in you will see that there is not that big of a difference in the relative sales. For some reasons Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Link's Awakening and The Minish Cap sold considerabley less in Japan than NA when sales are adjusted for population.

Yeah but even so usually Japanese games sell better in Japan than the US so it is a bit of an oddity.

Besides if you are going to factor in population then Europe with like 2 times the population of the US looks really bad for videogame sales.

Yes, Europe is really bad: costs for localization, sales organisation for every country and low sales figures. Europeans should be happy for the support we get.

Nintendo games that sell well in Japan are: Pokémon, SMB, Animal Crossing. Outside of Nintendo the best sellers are FF, MH & DQ.

The JRPGs we want to associate with Japan do not sell that well (even when adjusted for population): 

Tales of..., Phantasy Star and Kingdom Hearts sell much better than Shin Megami Tensei, Etrian Odyssey or Atelier Meruru.