Riachu said:
noname2200 said:
Riachu said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Its a niche genre where MOSt Hardcore fans are present.....and Vg chartz being a gaming website will have hardcore gamers |
Do Americans hate JRPGs? I don't think so but I just want to make sure
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No hate, from what I can tell, just indifference. RPGs in general aren't anywhere near as huge outside of Japan as they are within. Although a lot of Western games incorporate RPG-esque qualities (stats and the like). And I don't think Western RPGs outsell their Japanese counterparts on a consistent basis in the West. |
I could have sworn that Mass Effect got a vast majority of its sales in North America and Fable was the fastest selling Xbox game when it came out if I remember correctly
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You are correct, and you can add in other games as well. But that doesn't contradict what I said. Apart from Bioware and Bethesda RPGs, Western RPGs aren't particularly big, and even then the Japanese heavy-hitter, Suare-Enix, still give both of those companies a run for their money in the West. With the recent exception of Oblivion, Final Fantasy Whatever outsells Western RPGs in the West (note: there may be another Western game or two I'm missing, but there won't be too many). By the way, that includes Mass Effect, the biggest Western RPG of last year (1.9 million vs. 2.5 million in the West for Final Fantasy XII, the latest main entry in that series).
