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bigtakilla on 30 August 2017
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irstupid said:
curl-6 said:

The first trailer I think was inflated due to being part of the big Switch reveal which was probably the highest profile Nintendo event ever in terms of online exposure.

XB2's trailers so far look to me like they could've been from pretty much any run-of-the-mill JRPG from the past 5 years or so. Aside from the awesome music, nothing really makes it stand out.

Well the second trailer could have been overshadowed by say Mario, or Metroid news, ect.

You ahve to remember that as popular as Xenoblade may seem, it is still a niche game. It's not a Final Fantasy. Hell it's not even a Fire Emblem. Maybe a fire emblem before Awakening, but not the now newly hit status Fire Emblem has achieved. xenoblade has not reached the masses yet.

bigtakilla said:

Is it so hard to grasp that there were people who were hyped about this game even from the first trailer. Look at the first trailer for Xenoblade X, looks pretty unimpressive especially for the subsequent trailers, still so much hype!

There probably were some people hyped. Key word SOME. That first trailer would not have reached million views on youtube today if it released. It would be looked at as some mediocre rpg.

XCX and XC2 trailers, even their worst are 1000x more hyped than Xenoblades first trailer.

It was not it's trailer that got Operation Rainfall. Operation Rainfall was due to 3 RPG's being skipped at coming over. We were in dire want of RPG's and NOA of skipping those three. This was also 2 years AFTER the trailer that it started. I don't know when Xenoblade released in Japan, but I feel like it was before Rainfall started. I seem to recall during the most of rainfall campaign if not the entirety that people wanted Xenoblade badly becuase of how awesome the game WAS, not how awesome it looked. Meaning it was out.

Looking up online, the game was released in japan in JUNE 2010.

So 1 year after a game came out, an operation was started in order to localize it. I woudl say without a doubt the desire for that game would be  based on consumer reviews/critic reviews over a trailer.

Well essentially you have to look at the audience it played to. Wii owners that were into jrpgs. That crowd was hyped, but how big is the jrpg crowd to begin with? 

Then there's the normal boost subsequent trailers that are more refined brings. Heck, look how much attention it gained AFTER release, but is anyone going to say there was no hype prior to them selling $100 used copies. There was always an audience hyped.