Double Take: Xenoblade Chronicles X Sales Indicate Market for JRPGs on Nintendo Consoles

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spurgeonryan said:

OneKartVita said:
Personally I think the sales are inflated due to the lack of competition for RPGs on the Wii U and secondly due to the lack of games in general.

Nintendo fans didn't have much else new to choose from in November and December so it's inevitable that X gets a boost. 200k+ in the US is definitely good for the game but you're not going to see 3Rd party RPG developers rushing back to support them.

 

Most games on thhe system are inflated due to lack of other options. Sadly for Xeno blade I do not think there were many who downloaded it. Way to difficult.

Yet in Japan we know for certain that digital sales of the first month were 23k, about 25% of the retail sales of the same month.By now is obviosly higher, but it gives a clear example that the game size is not stopping people to buying digital instead of retail