Famistu gave SSBB a 40/40. They are hardly any kind of indication as to what western reviewers will give a game. As for what the game has, well I would say it has a much better development team behind it. Level 5 has gotten quite the cult following in recent years, and offers a very consistent experience. By all accounts it is similar to their other games, which have been recieved fairly well. Do you have a real arguement aganst it?

c0rd said: dolemit3 said: Because the Wii owners, unlike the PS3 owners don't care less for JRPGs. Mario games only for them. Haven't you noticed why DMJ had to include the "HD" JRPG as a conditional? Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Square Enix 0.50m Pokemon Batoru Reboryūshon Nintendo 0.31m Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Namco Bandai 0.22m WKC has yet to top any of these. It will overtake the Tales spinoff next week, but lifetime against Pokemon should be close. It doesn't have a chance at the Dragon Quest spinoff. Big name JRPG's on the Wii will sell, period. Have we already forgotten the announcement that DQX is arriving on the Wii? edit: Forgot to mention MH3. Only Mario on the Wii, right? OT: Sales are a little better than I expected, not bad. Still, the PS3 hasn't quite yet proven it can sell JRPG's better than the 360 worldwide, which was the argument (I thought) some of the "Xbots" claimed, one I agree with. As for people calling Square-Enix idiots for putting their games on the 360, I'm not sure what to think... if you're implying WKC showed the PS3 is a more viable JRPG platform, I suggest looking at the Wii's DQ spinoff, which opened at 310k first week over a year ago.

If you read the thread, I said HD because 360 owners said that out of the HD consoles, that the PS3 has not proven itself to sell JRPGs, while the 360 has.  I also explained this in another post, but apparently you lack reading comprehension skills.

I also said that Wii/DS/PSP own in JRPG sales.

Yeah, everyone knows that a game's first week in Japan is 2/3 of its lifetime sales there. That's why there are hundreds of counterexamples to disprove that. Oh wait, that doesn't make any sense.

White Knight may not sell 700k copies combined with America and PAL, and maybe it will. Definitely possible, but it's tough to say. If American sales could surpass the Japanese sales (which happens with a lot of JRPGs) then it would have a good chance. Tales of Vesperia is the best scoring JRPG on the 360 (as to my knowledge) but look at its sales compared to lesser scoring games. Lost Odyssey sold tons more in the west with lower review scores. Lost Odyssey may still have a chance at a million, and were its Japanese sales higher, it would definitely reach that goal. If White Knight has lots of commercials in the west, it would sell well there.

As for hype on game sites, there was almost no hype for a lot of 360 JRPGs until a couple days or weeks before they came out in the west. You're certainly not going to see many Japanese gamers on English-speaking forums, and American/PAL gamers aren't going to hype themselves to hell for a game that doesn't even have an announced release date in their regions. Stop with the Sony hate. It's stale.

Slimebeast said:

If anything the Fam 40/40 score on SSBB is another indication that Western reviewers are harder on Japanese games. Is there a single example where Famits has given a lower score to a JRPG than the score on Gamerankings?

I don't have any argument against WKC per se, but rather that I fail to see anything about it to justify it selling more than 500,000 copies tops in the West (which would be great since the X360 JRPGs usually seem to stop at 350,000 copies). Hype is near 0 on Western gaming sites.

Well, I dunno... FolkSoul (not same genre) maybe had better than perdicted sales on the PS3? So, maybe the strongest argument would be that all these JRPG hungry fans in the West that bought a PS3 for FF13 might flock to White Knight Chronicles.

Because the Wii owners, unlike the PS3 owners don't care less for JRPGs. Mario games only for them.

Someone help me please: Did this thread get even better than this? Cause I don't really feel like reading all 200+ posts, but maybe I missed something gold.

Tales of Vesperia is the best scoring JRPG on the 360 (as to my knowledge) but look at its sales compared to lesser scoring games. Lost Odyssey sold tons more in the west with lower review scores. Lost Odyssey may still have a chance at a million, and were its Japanese sales higher, it would definitely reach that goal. If White Knight has lots of commercials in the west, it would sell well there.

Yeah, everyone knows that a game's first week in Japan is 2/3 of its lifetime sales there. That's why there are hundreds of counterexamples to disprove that. Oh wait, that doesn't make any sense.

White Knight may not sell 700k copies combined with America and PAL, and maybe it will. Definitely possible, but it's tough to say. If American sales could surpass the Japanese sales (which happens with a lot of JRPGs) then it would have a good chance. Tales of Vesperia is the best scoring JRPG on the 360 (as to my knowledge) but look at its sales compared to lesser scoring games. Lost Odyssey sold tons more in the west with lower review scores. Lost Odyssey may still have a chance at a million, and were its Japanese sales higher, it would definitely reach that goal. If White Knight has lots of commercials in the west, it would sell well there.

As for hype on game sites, there was almost no hype for a lot of 360 JRPGs until a couple days or weeks before they came out in the west. You're certainly not going to see many Japanese gamers on English-speaking forums, and American/PAL gamers aren't going to hype themselves to hell for a game that doesn't even have an announced release date in their regions. Stop with the Sony hate. It's stale.