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thelifatree on 15 April 2010
kingofwale said:
thelifatree said:
Blood_Tears said:
I think DQ X has a shot at the title when it launches.

I think it will sell more than elder scrolls or FFXIII because, there are tons of wii's in Japan, and for the most part DQ is more popular in Japan than FF. And square will probably make
a lot more money off it too, cause I assume the development costs would be a lot lower than FFXIII.

However in the states... I don't think it'll sell more than it usually does, which isn't a whole lot.

way too much assumption. there are way more DS in Japan, while DQ9 sold less than FFXIII overall.

 

also, is DQX even confirmed to be Wii exclusive yet?  Sorry, I never played DQ series

hey,  After thinking about it... you're correct and I'm wrong. haha

I don't know if DQX is wii exclusive... I thought it was.



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Grey21 on 15 April 2010
riecsou said:

This generation in home console FF XIII became this week the best selling RPG toping Fable II which was holding the lead. The top before FF XIII were: Fable II, Elder Scroll IV Oblivion, Fallout III and all on the Xbox360 (a bit unexpected since Playstation is suppose to be the home of RPG). The numbers are:

FF XIII (PS3): 3.59 M

Fable II: 3.53 M

Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (Xbox360):

Fallout III (Xbox360):


In total sales FO3 is still ahead of FF13, ofcourse that will chance eventually. FF is just an incredibly powerful franchise, but wRPG are more popular in general hench Fable, Oblivion and Fallout being'closest to FF13 in sales. So if you want to buy a wRPG then you have more choice, if you want a JRPG you get a lot of average games and then FF13 so the choice is obvious. SO what I'm saying is you can't credit the sales to the greatness of the game (FF13) itself but to the franchise's power and the competition.



thelifatree on 15 April 2010
Grey21 said:
riecsou said:

This generation in home console FF XIII became this week the best selling RPG toping Fable II which was holding the lead. The top before FF XIII were: Fable II, Elder Scroll IV Oblivion, Fallout III and all on the Xbox360 (a bit unexpected since Playstation is suppose to be the home of RPG). The numbers are:

FF XIII (PS3): 3.59 M

Fable II: 3.53 M

Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (Xbox360):

Fallout III (Xbox360):


In total sales FO3 is still ahead of FF13, ofcourse that will chance eventually. FF is just an incredibly powerful franchise, but wRPG are more popular in general hench Fable, Oblivion and Fallout being'closest to FF13 in sales. So if you want to buy a wRPG then you have more choice, if you want a JRPG you get a lot of average games and then FF13 so the choice is obvious. SO what I'm saying is you can't credit the sales to the greatness of the game (FF13) itself but to the franchise's power and the competition.

If you include PC, FO3 and Oblivion, they will probably have more than FF13 forever.

but there are good JRPG's Out Like Resonance of Fate, and Valkyria Chronicles. It's just RoF is extremly niche, which does =/= sales. And Valkyria Chronicles is SJRPG, but both of those were advertised by Sega, and Sega really sucks at advertising. And doing such things as releasing RoF at the same time as FFXIII was not very smart.

But this is off topic, but if I remember, before Elder Scrolls Morrowind on xbox. There were RPG's on PC, and RPG's on Consoles... I didn't hear JRPG used until PC RPG's started being on consoles. But I was a youngin' I coulda been oblivious



Frazzl on 15 April 2010

It may be the best selling current-gen RPG thus far, but it's definitely not the best one in my opinion. It just shows the importance of a brand name when it comes to sales.



imran_nxt on 15 April 2010
thelifatree said:
kingofwale said:
thelifatree said:
Blood_Tears said:
I think DQ X has a shot at the title when it launches.

I think it will sell more than elder scrolls or FFXIII because, there are tons of wii's in Japan, and for the most part DQ is more popular in Japan than FF. And square will probably make
a lot more money off it too, cause I assume the development costs would be a lot lower than FFXIII.

However in the states... I don't think it'll sell more than it usually does, which isn't a whole lot.

way too much assumption. there are way more DS in Japan, while DQ9 sold less than FFXIII overall.

 

also, is DQX even confirmed to be Wii exclusive yet?  Sorry, I never played DQ series

hey,  After thinking about it... you're correct and I'm wrong. haha

I don't know if DQX is wii exclusive... I thought it was.

Guys, DQX exclusive for wii was confirmed by SE longtime back. I dnt have the link rite now but i think it was a news article on vgchartz also..



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thelifatree on 15 April 2010
Frazzl said:
It may be the best selling current-gen RPG thus far, but it's definitely not the best one in my opinion. It just shows the importance of a brand name when it comes to sales.

And that some people think it's the best one...

but, yes a brand name always important, except for that singy thing on wii, i forgot what its called :P... hell in the psone era, all Square had to do was publish a game and it sold because of the square logo... (and a lot of the games were awesome.



thelifatree on 15 April 2010
imran_nxt said:
thelifatree said:
kingofwale said:
thelifatree said:
Blood_Tears said:
I think DQ X has a shot at the title when it launches.

I think it will sell more than elder scrolls or FFXIII because, there are tons of wii's in Japan, and for the most part DQ is more popular in Japan than FF. And square will probably make
a lot more money off it too, cause I assume the development costs would be a lot lower than FFXIII.

However in the states... I don't think it'll sell more than it usually does, which isn't a whole lot.

way too much assumption. there are way more DS in Japan, while DQ9 sold less than FFXIII overall.

 

also, is DQX even confirmed to be Wii exclusive yet?  Sorry, I never played DQ series

hey,  After thinking about it... you're correct and I'm wrong. haha

I don't know if DQX is wii exclusive... I thought it was.

Guys, DQX exclusive for wii was confirmed by SE longtime back. I dnt have the link rite now but i think it was a news article on vgchartz also..

I thought so, I think this one will stay exclusive... just you know SE and exclusives these days :P?



NSS7 on 15 April 2010

FF Versus XIII will top FFXIII if it stay PS3 exclusive (heard lot of X360 rumor).



NSS7 on 15 April 2010

I mean without combine both ver of FFXIII, Versus XIII will outsell FFXIII on PS3 and become top selling RPG for console



Kira_Shinigami on 15 April 2010

bravo