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pichu_pichu on 17 July 2008

maybe not, by much...



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Relias on 17 July 2008

Yes it will. (A little)



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1. Yoshi: He ate my car and spit out a toaster.

2. Igglybuff: Totally false advertisement. You can have as many as you like they don't buff nothing.

3. the Terms Hardcore/Softcore... We're talking Video Games. Not Porn.

4. The term Casual as relates to Gamers: We make them sound like outsider's that happen to play games.  If that were the case they'd own a PS3.

5. Donuts.... Beacause I drink Beer...... and the biggest fan of Donuts hates Beer.

6. Boycotts: Their so lame.

 

 

Lord N on 17 July 2008
thekitchensink said:

Not quite. The shooter genre is hopelessly overcrowded. That's why old shooters don't sell at all--there's always some great new one around the corner. The 360, which is the supposed JRPG king this generation, gets one new JRPG every few months.

 

 

While it may have the most JRPG's, I'd hardly say it's the JRPG king when they've al been unimitigated failures as far as sales and notoriety are concerned.
Not even Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata have managed to sell a million copies.

 

 



 

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thekitchensink on 17 July 2008
Lord N said:
thekitchensink said:

Not quite. The shooter genre is hopelessly overcrowded. That's why old shooters don't sell at all--there's always some great new one around the corner. The 360, which is the supposed JRPG king this generation, gets one new JRPG every few months.

 

 

While it may have the most JRPG's, I'd hardly say it's the JRPG king when they've al been unimitigated failures as far as sales and notoriety are concerned.
Not even Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata have managed to sell a million copies.

 

 

I meant 'king' as in 'has the most'.  In this situation, we're talking about Mr. RPG fan who buys FFXIII and wants something else to go with it.  He'll probably buy something more recent (unless an older one is cheap).

 



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Lord N on 17 July 2008
thekitchensink said:
Lord N said:
thekitchensink said:

Not quite. The shooter genre is hopelessly overcrowded. That's why old shooters don't sell at all--there's always some great new one around the corner. The 360, which is the supposed JRPG king this generation, gets one new JRPG every few months.

 

 

While it may have the most JRPG's, I'd hardly say it's the JRPG king when they've al been unimitigated failures as far as sales and notoriety are concerned.
Not even Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata have managed to sell a million copies.

 

 

I meant 'king' as in 'has the most'. In this situation, we're talking about Mr. RPG fan who buys FFXIII and wants something else to go with it. He'll probably buy something more recent (unless an older one is cheap).

 

 

Having the most doesn't make it the king when the sales(and hence the appeal) aren't there to back it up.

It just means that the 360 has a lot of low-selling games in a specific genre.



 

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Riachu on 17 July 2008
Lord N said:
thekitchensink said:
Lord N said:
thekitchensink said:

Not quite. The shooter genre is hopelessly overcrowded. That's why old shooters don't sell at all--there's always some great new one around the corner. The 360, which is the supposed JRPG king this generation, gets one new JRPG every few months.

 

 

While it may have the most JRPG's, I'd hardly say it's the JRPG king when they've al been unimitigated failures as far as sales and notoriety are concerned.
Not even Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata have managed to sell a million copies.

 

 

I meant 'king' as in 'has the most'. In this situation, we're talking about Mr. RPG fan who buys FFXIII and wants something else to go with it. He'll probably buy something more recent (unless an older one is cheap).

 

 

Having the most doesn't make it the king when the sales(and hence the appeal) aren't there to back it up.

It just means that the 360 has a lot of low-selling games in a specific genre.

You can say that about any genre though since most games in general don't sell well

 



 

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noslodecoy on 18 July 2008

I agree with Riachu. I think there will be a small jump in all JRPGs for the 360 (mainly LO) now that Final Fantasy XIII has been announced for the 360. I think the announcement will change the perception of the 360 for many JRPG fans who haven't committed to a console yet.



CDiablo on 18 July 2008

Definitely, the more XBOX sells itself as a RPG machine, the more of the RPGs on it will be sold......that includes Blud Dragon, LO, Eternal Sonata, ect.



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Riachu on 18 July 2008
CDiablo said:
Definitely, the more XBOX sells itself as a RPG machine, the more of the RPGs on it will be sold......that includes Blud Dragon, LO, Eternal Sonata, ect.

And so far, Microsoft are doing a good job even though the JRPGs have to depend a little more on Western sales than usual since the 360 has a low userbase in Japan

 



 

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CrazzyMan on 18 July 2008

Yeah, that will be interesting to see, how sales will go on now. )

The other question, How many people will buy x360 for FFXIII? =))

This year x360 did good job with RPG games:

Lost Odyssey
Tales of Vesperia
Infinite Undiscovery
Fable 2
Too Human
Fallout 3
Last Remnant

Next year:
Star Ocean:TLH

while PS3:
Disgaea 3
Valkyrie Chronicles
Eternal Sonata
Fallout 3

Next year:
White Knight Chronicles
Cross Edge
Last Remnant

Hmm.... yeah, it has chance to draw rpg folks THIS year, BUT next year it will be all about PS3. =)

Time will show, will M$ strategy work or not.



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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