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Bitmap Frogs on 14 December 2008
oliist said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
BengaBenga said:

Please don't believe that. Sony simply doesn't have the money to buy L5 and it wouldn't have an added value as JRPGs don't decide console sales.

 

DQ does in Japan.

 

Actually it is the other way around. The winning system gets DQ.

 

And the hardware sales spike that happens whenever a DQ game is released is totally unrelated and probably caused by a moth batting its wings in Cuba?

The winning system gets DQ sure, but whenever DQ launches hardware sales surge. Ergo, DQ moves units.

Anyways, BengaBenga's statement is ambiguous...





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Slavedemonxi on 14 December 2008

Hopefully the sales are really good. They've definitely got my sale.



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BengaBenga on 14 December 2008
Bitmap Frogs said:
oliist said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
BengaBenga said:

Please don't believe that. Sony simply doesn't have the money to buy L5 and it wouldn't have an added value as JRPGs don't decide console sales.

 

DQ does in Japan.

 

Actually it is the other way around. The winning system gets DQ.

 

And the hardware sales spike that happens whenever a DQ game is released is totally unrelated and probably caused by a moth batting its wings in Cuba?

The winning system gets DQ sure, but whenever DQ launches hardware sales surge. Ergo, DQ moves units.

Anyways, BengaBenga's statement is ambiguous...

Ehm that's totally correct.

But since Dragon Quest is a Square Enix franchise I still don't know what Sony would win with buying L5.

 



Squall_Leonhart on 14 December 2008

I think Sony's main gain would be to finally have an RPG department within their 1st party studios, and we all know how big RPG's are in Japan, and usually all round the world (as seen with the FF games) so this would be nothing but a good thing!

Depending how much they would want for them to be bought, as that could be painful lol



Aiemond on 14 December 2008
Squall_Leonhart said:

I think Sony's main gain would be to finally have an RPG department within their 1st party studios, and we all know how big RPG's are in Japan, and usually all round the world (as seen with the FF games) so this would be nothing but a good thing!

Depending how much they would want for them to be bought, as that could be painful lol

 

Square may be outsourcing DQ X to Level 5, we don't know yet. Anyways, does level 5 want to be bought by the third place company in financial trouble? It does not make any business sense.



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Zlejedi on 15 December 2008
BengaBenga said:

I was talking about Japan. But I'm really curious as to what WKC will do in the West. PS3 is relatively strongest in Europe where the RPG genre is weakest. And seeing the PS3's top sellers in the West makes me think the PS3 userbase is very shooter/sports minded.

Nah if you look at it shooters sell much better on x360.

Imho PS3 user base is more sports racing and arcade oriented then shooter loving (after all Resistance 2 did badly and CoD was dethroned on PS3 by PoP which didn't happen on x360)



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BengaBenga on 15 December 2008
Squall_Leonhart said:

I think Sony's main gain would be to finally have an RPG department within their 1st party studios, and we all know how big RPG's are in Japan, and usually all round the world (as seen with the FF games) so this would be nothing but a good thing!

Depending how much they would want for them to be bought, as that could be painful lol

 

The thing is that having a JRPG department would not help Sony in any way. JRPGs simply aren't that popular anymore. Sure the big franchises are succesfull and FF and DQ are definitely system sellers, but the average RPG isn't.

The Japanese market alone doesn't warrant the millions Sony would have to pay for L5. When is the last non-big franchise RPG that broke 500k in Japan.



hunter_alien on 15 December 2008

Well IMO it can easily do 200-300k + in Japan alone first week, or ~ half of the opening of MGS4... its IMO bigger then DMC 4 but smaller then MGS4... so if it could do 300k in Japan, 15k in the US and 50k in Europe... it could be hard to achieve this, but not impossible ;)



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Riachu on 15 December 2008
BengaBenga said:
Squall_Leonhart said:

I think Sony's main gain would be to finally have an RPG department within their 1st party studios, and we all know how big RPG's are in Japan, and usually all round the world (as seen with the FF games) so this would be nothing but a good thing!

Depending how much they would want for them to be bought, as that could be painful lol

 

The thing is that having a JRPG department would not help Sony in any way. JRPGs simply aren't that popular anymore. Sure the big franchises are succesfull and FF and DQ are definitely system sellers, but the average RPG isn't.

The Japanese market alone doesn't warrant the millions Sony would have to pay for L5. When is the last non-big franchise RPG that broke 500k in Japan.

The sales aren't as good as they used to be but I am sure it is simply because a lot of the high profile JRPGs this gen aren't that great.  S-E should be ashamed of releasing The Last Remnant in it's unpolished state.  Keep that up and JRPGs will go the way of adventure games.

 



 

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leo-j on 30 December 2008
BengaBenga said:
Japan: 200k LTD
US: 250k LTD
Europe: 200k LTD

=650k LTD

 

 lol haha

Wow benga Benga

I cought you red handed, you said 200K LTD IN JAPAN, you edited your other post to 350k, wow your so clever.



 

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