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mrstickball on 07 August 2008
Riachu said:
Shadowblind said:
Beja-Beja said:
lol let the 360 take one week in japan it will fade out soon enough. Good for Microsoft though lord knows they need a hit. I wonder how this game will sell when it eventually goes to the ps3 or how it would compare to Eternal Sonata. THe Wii Tales game sold well i dont expect this game to reach it htough.

Probably pretty bad. Western gamers seem to shun stylish JRPGs.

 

Anyway, Glad that Tales of vesperia is doing so well. Hope it does well over here too.

 

It's just the Western 360 owners who shun stylish JRPGs. In fact, even though I see ToV selling better than IU in Japan, I wouldn't be suprised if it was vice versa in the West.

 


I think a lot of it has to do with public perception of the X360. It's been fighting the stigma of being the shooterbox, and what not. If someone was to say, when Blue Dragon/Sonata launch, that we'd be getting more and more stylish JRPGs, that you wouldn't find too many X360 owners that believed that.

As JRPG sales increase on the X360, and JRPGs are seen as being a very strong selling point of the X360, JRPG sales will increase. We've gone from Floposaurus Rex (Blue Dragon) selling like 100,000 copies in it's first month+ in the US, to seeing Lost Odyssey do that in a week, and have great legs.

Also, looking at Blue Dragon, it's sold 50,000 copies in the US this year. That's a pretty noteworthy addition of sales. Eternal Sonata has also sold an additional 68,000 copies in the US this year. This leads me to believe that the JRPG userbase is growing in the US as new games come onto the scene, and JRPG-ers are rediscovering new copies of the back catalog of good JRPGs.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

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Zucas on 07 August 2008

MrStickBall- I really don't think its so much about perception of the 360 but the company who makes the 360, MS. I really think if that exact same 360 in everything up to date had been released exactly like that but the company who made it was say, Namco. Or hell maybe even an American company like Electronic Arts, I think it would have sold a lot better.

I really just think its animosity towards MS and their practices whether true or not. Luckily the influx of JRPG's should start to show that MS is trying harder and help sales.



crumas2 on 07 August 2008
mrstickball said:
erikers said:
I love that they always get in huge lines for any big game that comes out. I wonder if there's a person who waits a few hours, walks into the store and picks the game up and laughs at everybody who waited.

The game could always sell out, or a walk-in might not find a X360 to buy...Who knows.

But at any rate, a person couldn't laugh at anyone by walking into the store and buying it after a few hours - those that waited will have already been home playing the game.

 

 

Having been someone who's occassionally waited in line to watch a late-night premier, buy a new OS or game, acquire a new gadget, etc., I can honestly say that I have never done so to make sure I got my copy or to get it as soon as humanly possible.  Every time I did this I went with a friend and had a blast meeting other people who were just as passionate about gaming, etc.

 

So, it's not about being there first... at least not for me.  It's about being part of something that people are passionate about.

 



Roma on 07 August 2008

I hope it dose well it is very beautiful and deserves too do well



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(