Metallox said:
Most likely, but this certainly was the most expensive game in the series to date and, as far as I know, it was decently publicized over there, and yet it didn't seem to reach too many people outside of the core fanbase. They were probably betting on the West (like most JRPGs nowadays), and well, they caught my attention enough to buy two Premium editions, it had a good opening in the UK, so I'm confident the game will end up doing good. |
We've seen in quite a few examples that this doesn't correlate with much growth in Japan but has a much bigger impact in other markets.
Kind of off topic, but this just reminded me how criminal it is that Yokai Watch 4 didn't come to the west. Would of easily been the biggest entry by a huge margin, especially now that its multiplat (Swicth+PS4). Hopefully they're paying attention to the record sales lots of JRPGs are having in the west. Although I'd prefer to play it on PS5, I'd also take Nintendo exclusively publishing it if its the only way to get it over.
