FinalEvangelion said:
Kasz216 said:
FinalEvangelion said:
*~Onna76~* said:
@Final... Former generation was entirely different. RPG's were on a productive scale, you wouldn't believe it. Therefore.. how can gamers change so fast? I haven't changed of being a RPG fan. I have a WII and a DS like I had a GBA and GC in the former generation. I have a PSP and PS3 like I had a .... well PS2 only in the former generation. Despite the fact I have a WII / DS you don't see me buying brain training games, cooking and how to run your houshold. Just about 2 years ago, RPG's were dominating the lists all the time and all of the sudden... poof... gone. Not a surprise if they keep on waiting with releasing or releasing on the wrong consoles which make the game bound to sell bad  Plus, Paper Mario isn't really a RPG, more an action / adventure, like Folklore is on the PS3 and Dragon Quest Swords is just a short hack n slash game, nothing more. You can't compare these games with the almighty Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Tales of..., Shin Megami Tensei, or any other kind of die hard RPG. |
Yeah, Japan seems to have the tendency to change overnight and do so all at once. In America, people liked FPS games last two generations and still like FPS games today like there is no tomorrow, despite the Wii being here. The anime industry is also not in such good shape as it used to be too, but that's a different story, although both go hand in hand with jRPGs. My guess is that the jRPG / anime scene is now reduced to the people that hang out in Akihabara all the time. |
Yet PS2 and DS RPGs are still selling well to my knowledge aren't they? |
Do you know what World Ends with You numbers are? For the PS2, they still have most of the old jRPG base. The first true jRPG test on PS3 will be WKC, when ever that's supposed to get out. Valkyrie of the Battlefield did better than I had expected. I honestly didn't think it would make 75k sales LTD in Japan with the way things were going. |
Is that even out in Japan? All I see for it is US numbers. You've got to keep in mind that they're RPGs as well.
I mean how many RPGs on the PS2 sold more then 500,000 units? (Which is what the source predicts for that particular game.)
Not many.
When you take out the ones not DQ, FF or involving FF... the numbers are quite small.
That's why basically every RPG is low budget in the first place.
Also if RPG fans are outgrowing them... why are they still buying them? Isn't it possible just that Japan doesn't want to buy 360's and PS3 is just to overpriced for your average RPG fan?
