And why is that? I don't get where you got this idea from.

konichiwa - Probably has to do with the whole theory that in the West, games tend to sell better if they're reviewed well.

@konnichiwa

Why didnt Haze sell?

Why didnt Lair sell?

Why didnt Too human sell?

mrstickball said: Dgc1808 said: Rei said: Where do people take this "jRPGs get 50% of their sales from Japan" thing from? Unless we are talking about Dragon Quest I dont get it. Final Fantasy sells more in the West Kingdom Hearts sells more in the West Star Ocean sells more in the West Same for Tales of lately, and all recent new IPs like TLR, IU, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon. Saying that japanese market is more important for jRPGs than the western one is very 1995-ish. Ever since FFVII came out it has been the other way around.   Final Fantasy XII: Sales History Region Japan America Others Total Total Sales 2.42m 1.83m 0.84m 5.09m Week 1 1,819,872 571,945 n/a 2,391,817 Week 2 242,040 151,479 n/a 393,519 Week 3 89,133 148,282 n/a 237,415 Week 4 42,108 177,734 n/a 219,842 Week 5 25,925 91,411 n/a 117,336 Week 6 16,675 94,978 n/a 111,653 Week 7 15,493 97,348 n/a 112,841 Week 8 14,133 71,374 n/a 85,507 Week 9 6,834 34,282 n/a 41,116 Week 10 6,126 27,295 n/a 33,421 Final Fantasy X-2: Sales History Region Japan America Others Total Total Sales 2.41m 1.82m 0.98m 5.21m Week 1 1,561,553 n/a n/a 1,561,553 Week 2 192,730 n/a n/a 192,730 Week 3 85,345 n/a n/a 85,345 Week 4 47,816 n/a n/a 47,816 Week 5 31,961 n/a n/a 31,961 Week 6 21,546 n/a n/a 21,546 Week 7 16,811 n/a n/a 16,811 Week 8 11,797 n/a n/a 11,797 Week 9 7,455 n/a n/a 7,455 Week 10 6,401 n/a n/a 6,401 Again... Final Fantasy X: Sales History Region Japan America Others Total Total Sales 3.02m 2.74m 2.19m 7.95m Week 1 1,906,152 n/a n/a 1,906,152 Week 2 254,290 n/a n/a 254,290 Week 3 93,401 n/a n/a 93,401 Week 4 51,515 n/a n/a 51,515 Week 5 40,998 n/a n/a 40,998 Week 6 27,287 n/a n/a 27,287 Week 7 18,135 n/a n/a 18,135 Week 8 11,522 n/a n/a 11,522 Week 9 8,703 n/a n/a 8,703 Week 10 6,338 n/a n/a 6,338   I think the point has been that the West, not NA or Europe, has sold more copies of said Final Fantasies than Japan alone....Which, in each of those cases, did outsell them.

Europe is part of the West???? This is news to me....

Always love having a discussion on JRPGs, and I hope you enjoy VC as much as I did.  Fulfilled almost all of my hopes for the game, the only thing I wished it had done better was to delve a little deaper into the war storyline and make it more like playing a WWII movie, I think that could make a great JRPG.

I forget, have you gotten Persona 4 yet?  It's another title that really hit the sweet spot for and hit all of my hopes in what it would be.

Compare that to VC and those games sold awesome.

Actually no, those games sold like crap compared to VC..

the reason VC didnt sell is because SRPG's dont tend to sell well especially on consoles. I didnt buy Valkyria despite the good reviews because I dont like the SRPG genre.

@ZenfoldorVGI why is it that u seem to always give such rational answers??u my friend i have very much respect for,as others here seem to be saying hahahahahha it outsold the jrpgs on the 360 all the while forgetting that the said 360 has such a small userbase in japan,i more admire what the 360 has done with it,s jrpgs than the ps3 as a whole this game should have done better if u go by what the (SOME) ps3 owners ON THIS SITE were leading us to believe,so once again thank u ZenfoldorVGI. 

Parts of Europe are. Spain, UK and Russia are all in the Western hemisphere.

The bigger argument is that European gamers share their taste with the Americans far more than the Japanese, which is usually (at least as far as I've seen) part of the whole 'East vs. West' gaming argument.

Japan >>>>>> NA >>> EU for FF sales

No point in downplaying it at all, FFXIII sales on PS3 in Japan alone will be higher then FFXIII sales in NA and EU combined for the 360. Be sure to quote me on that. ;)

Saying the rest of the West combined sells more FF copies then Japan alone simply shows what big a player Japan is, hate how love down play this.

Anyway for WKC it was 132k sales too many, hear nothing but awful things about the game on Japanese gaming forums.