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RolStoppable said:
Mr Khan said:
SaviorX said:
The Wii will probably have 10 JRPGs by the end of its lifetime (I don't know how many are out now) and I only see one more that we don't know about coming.

Japanese devs supported the PS3 and 360 mostly with the JRPGs, to mixed success. The other smaller companies devoted themselves completely to the DS and PSP handhelds, leaving the Wii right in the middle with pretty much nothing. When it comes to New IPs on consoles this gen, Japan rarely made an impact.

That's the main problem. Wii's the middle child in Japan, getting no attention.

Nah, the Wii's more like the dog locked out of the house on a rainy day.

Actually the Wii is more like the pretty girl on the schoolyard that all the 'popular' girls ignore because she gets all the attention elsewhere.



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the jrpg lack is mostly a Nintendo problem in general, there has been a jrpg drought since n64



If you want J-RPGS , you can pick a Wii there is tales, arc rise fantasia, Xenoblade ans Last Story, now if you are really looking into this game of games , you cant wrong with a DS , i think a new JRPG comes out every single week.



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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
RolStoppable said:
Mr Khan said:
SaviorX said:
The Wii will probably have 10 JRPGs by the end of its lifetime (I don't know how many are out now) and I only see one more that we don't know about coming.

Japanese devs supported the PS3 and 360 mostly with the JRPGs, to mixed success. The other smaller companies devoted themselves completely to the DS and PSP handhelds, leaving the Wii right in the middle with pretty much nothing. When it comes to New IPs on consoles this gen, Japan rarely made an impact.

That's the main problem. Wii's the middle child in Japan, getting no attention.

Nah, the Wii's more like the dog locked out of the house on a rainy day.

Actually the Wii is more like the pretty girl on the schoolyard that all the 'popular' girls ignore because she gets all the attention elsewhere.

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But i gotta say i having a lot of fun with some Wi japanese titles (not RPGs but still) Joysound Wii rocks o-O
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GO PATS! 2012 THE YEAR OF NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS'S 4TH SUPER BOWL!

A patriot to the end. GO PATS!

Now playing> THE LAST STORY (Wii) Best RPG I EVER PLAYED. *-*

Nintendo could u please just take my money and give me back my 3DS?!

jarrod said:
Xoj said:

vesperia was old port and it outsold all tales even wii grace, wii have twice the userbase.

While true, I think the context and timing of each release played HEAVILY into that.  Vesperia PS3 came right in time to perfectly ride the Slim relaunch and momentum (and was arguably the first "big" game to do so), had fantastic word of mouth from the previous 360 release (plus enough new content to ensure every hardcore Tales  fan rebought it), and launched alongside the First Strike film (with TONS of co-promotion).  Graces meanwhile launched a week before FFXIII (something JP retailers even called suicide, and chiefly blamed the weak launch on) and was almost unplayably buggy (to the point where Namco had reissue new discs... 3 months later).  In Graces favor was a new game (from Team Destiny, arguably the more successful of the two Tales teams), and both games got system bundles (as did Vesperia 360 originally).

I still think timing was the biggest factor though.  Had Vesperia PS3 and Graces each launched six months earlier or six months later, I think they'd have probably sold around the same (say ~250-300k).  Had Vesperia PS3 launched a week before FFXIII, it might not have even outsold the 360 version.

Damn.

Context is important, huh?



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Wii doesn't get much support in general because 3rd parties don't want to give it any. When 3rd parties would rather develop iPhone games over Wii games, there's no excuse big enough to defend this blatant bias.