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Words Of Wisdom on 29 August 2008
Riachu said:
Sky Render said:
You should not wish for the market leaders to vanish. A lot of the survival of a game genre market's survival hinges on the dominant leader. Without them, no matter how good the alternatives are, the market will fall without them. We saw this in action about 10 years ago, when the adventure game genre died. The warning signs were there early when one of the two market leaders, Sierra Online, started producing games that sold less and less than usual. When Sierra Online and later LucasArts left the genre behind, the entire market for adventure games dried up and vanished. A lot of people blame other genres for cannibalizing the adventure game market, discounting the decline and departure of key players. A market cannot survive without a leader.

The real reason why Adventure games declined is because they primarily were on PC while the new gamers in the 90s generally prefered consoles.

A market can survive without a leader.  Many have and still do today.  In some markets, there is no clear leader at all.  This is especially true in new ones where no company has yet to get itself to that position (though obviously many are trying).  All the would-be Final Fantasy customers aren't suddenly going to vanish nor will they all decide to burn their consoles.  Some will leave and the market will shrink however the people already buying the smaller RPGs will remain and many people who enjoyed Final Fantasy will look to other brands to satisfy their desires.  These people looking for alternatives make up the hole in the market that all of the current RPG makers would be looking to fill.



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Simulacrum on 30 August 2008
forevercloud3000 said:
Simulacrum said:

Well Tales maybe for third but it wont sell so well.There is lot of those that are great JPRG games but wont just sell.

 

because the ones that tend not to sell that well really aren't that good. Tales of series fails (tremenously) when in comparison to ANY final fantasy and or DQ(and I hate DQ). DQ doesn't sell that well in americal either mind you. JRPGs suffer from the same sickness that FPSs suffer from, saturation. FPSs and RPGs last gen were a dime a dozen, many dont have the funds to pic up every mediocre game that comes out. That is why only the best of the best get noticed. If they cared about generating alot of sales they simply would make their games better, but they dont. The Tales series, as well as others, are simply there to generate a little bit of sales on a tiny budget, enough to make a reasonable profit. This is how the system works.

 

Well Tales of Eternia (for PSP) has sold 0.67k in japan alone.I think its 1 of best games ever made.

Grandia for Dc sold merely 1 million (Wikipedia) but Grandia for ps1,no record and to me Grandia is best game ever.



 

 

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.:Dark Prince:. on 30 August 2008
forevercloud3000 said:
Simulacrum said:

Well Tales maybe for third but it wont sell so well.There is lot of those that are great JPRG games but wont just sell.

 

because the ones that tend not to sell that well really aren't that good. Tales of series fails (tremenously) when in comparison to ANY final fantasy and or DQ(and I hate DQ). DQ doesn't sell that well in americal either mind you. JRPGs suffer from the same sickness that FPSs suffer from, saturation. FPSs and RPGs last gen were a dime a dozen, many dont have the funds to pic up every mediocre game that comes out. That is why only the best of the best get noticed. If they cared about generating alot of sales they simply would make their games better, but they dont. The Tales series, as well as others, are simply there to generate a little bit of sales on a tiny budget, enough to make a reasonable profit. This is how the system works.


If you're trying to say that sales show a game's quality then you fail miserably.

Persona 3 > FFXII, or at least FFX-2 (can't deny that one) but look at the sales. It's not the best of the best the ones that get noticed, it's the most well known and advertised ones.



 

Simulacrum on 30 August 2008

So its about brand and quality?
O well.



 

 

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