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Riachu on 13 June 2008
Strategyking92 said:
too many games this year for me, so i'll pass on this one up

I'm not crazy about jrpg's, but I am interested in eternal sonata. Is the story good?

Some will argue the story in Eternal Sonata gets plain absurd later on in the game but I don't know myself since I only played the demo.

It is too bad you will miss out on LO. I've been playing it and it is really good and proves that a turn based RPG can still be fun. I have a similar dilemma as you do. After I beat LO, I plan on getting either Tales of Vesperia or Infinite Undiscovery but I only want to play one big JRPG at once and it isn't helping that they get released pretty close to each other and I will be playing other games at the same time.



 

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De85 on 13 June 2008
RPGJock said:
Rock_on_2008 said:
Lost Odyssey will reach that total of 1 million by the end of 2008.

Unless it get a price drop around the holidays, I don't see it happening. The new "hot" always buries the old, and SE has the name behind their RPGs, wheather you like them or not.


 Not necessarily, we've seen time and again that large launches can boost sales for all games on a given platform.  The reason is that many more people are in the stores that would ordinarily not be.  They see other games similar to the ones they like/are buying and may pick them up as well.  



Riachu on 13 June 2008
De85 said:
RPGJock said:
Rock_on_2008 said:
Lost Odyssey will reach that total of 1 million by the end of 2008.

Unless it get a price drop around the holidays, I don't see it happening. The new "hot" always buries the old, and SE has the name behind their RPGs, wheather you like them or not.


Not necessarily, we've seen time and again that large launches can boost sales for all games on a given platform. The reason is that many more people are in the stores that would ordinarily not be. They see other games similar to the ones they like/are buying and may pick them up as well.

@RPGJock

You're basically saying that people would be more interested in getting IU and The Last Remnant than LO, am I correct? 

 



 

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Strategyking92 on 13 June 2008
Riachu said:
Strategyking92 said:
too many games this year for me, so i'll pass on this one up

I'm not crazy about jrpg's, but I am interested in eternal sonata. Is the story good?

Some will argue the story in Eternal Sonata gets plain absurd later on in the game but I don't know myself since I only played the demo.

It is too bad you will miss out on LO. I've been playing it and it is really good and proves that a turn based RPG can still be fun. I have a similar dilemma as you do. After I beat LO, I plan on getting either Tales of Vesperia or Infinite Undiscovery but I only want to play one big JRPG at once and it isn't helping that they get released pretty close to each other and I will be playing other games at the same time.


 

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Bitmap Frogs on 13 June 2008
Riachu said:
Yojimbo said:
I hope not really hate that game there is better JRPGS on 360.

Enchanted Arms was generic

Blue Dragon was generic and a pretty big disappointment

Heard Eternal Sonata was pretty good but only played demo

Lost Odyssey has frame rate issues and what not but it doesn't break the game at all unlike some other games i.e.Killzone 

 

 


Bull. Blue Dragon was a good game as long as you could stomach the generic chars and storyline. The game pacing got pretty damn good the last two disks, the toriyama monster designs are as usual excellent (it's a pitty their engine didn't support facial animations) and the ending setting makes the lack of a BD2 a damn shame. 





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*bleu-ocelot* on 13 June 2008

By the time LO reaches 1mil,FFXIII will be out and you know the rest...



CrazzyMan on 13 June 2008

Maybe yes, maybe not, DEPENDS only on when FFXIII will be released. =))
While, i am pretty sure, that know which HD jrpg will pass 2 mln., 3 mln. 4 mln. 5 mln. and etc. copies. =))
Anyway, if that makes you feel better, then you should just hope, that FFXIII won`t come in this year, neither in january 2009. =)
And probably won`t, but who knows... :))



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2009.04.30 - PS3 will OUTSELL x360 atleast by the middle of 2010. Japan+Europe > NA.


Gran Turismo 3 - 1,06 mln. in 3 weeks with around 4 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Gran Turismo 4 - 1,16 mln. with 18 mln. PS2 on the launch.

Final Fantasy X - around 2 mln. with 5 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Final Fantasy X-2 - 2.4 mln. with 12 mln. PS2 on the launch.

 

1.8 mln. PS3 today(2008.01.17) in Japan. Now(2009.04.30) 3.16 mln. PS3 were sold in Japan.
PS3 will reach 4 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 25k.

PS3 may reach 5 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 50k.
PS2 2001 vs PS3 2008 sales numbers =) + New games released in Japan by 2009 that passed 100k so far

Everstar on 13 June 2008

Yeah i think it will get to 1m



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ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 13 June 2008

i think it will reach 1 million sales this year, because with all the other rpg's coming out on the xbox 360, it will only help spread the word about rpg's on the system and when ppl check out these new rpg's on the xbox 360, they will notice lost odyssey and might give it a shot. also i think it will drop to $39.99 around october at the latest for the holiday push, and with that into account that should make up the difference to reach the 1 million mark.



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Slimebeast on 13 June 2008

Before FF13 is even released, the X360 will have:

Lost Odyssey - 1 million
Tales of Vesperia - 750,000
Infinite Undiscovery - 750,000
Star Ocean 4 - 1 million
The Last Remnant - close to 1 million

Not to mention the biggest W-RPG on consoles this gen:

Fable 2 - over 4 million and counting.