yup its fixed cause i've been playing it online for half a day now with only 2 network errors.

@oni ,,,how's online?

Congratulations!

It's still petty hard to melt. Before this generation started I could never have imagined that the best selling Japanese RPG on the Japanese home market would end up on a Playstation console!

Weird.

its just like Monster hunter online and that for me is a winner. Though monster hunter is better at it, this just copied it.

There is nothing to celebrate, it's just a plain fact (well, we'll know for sure soon enough) put in the OP title, that people have problem coping with.

You can play dumb (trolling?), but I'll tell you what went far over your head: the XB360 is not the benchmark for the PS3 sales in Japan, it just happens to be the only HD competitor there, and the one whom people were saying is the "JRPG king". This just proves all of these talks were pipe dreams. Talking about the HD JRPG is just there not to talk about Wii JRPG which still sold more than the other console ones in Japan.

And casuals never were into JRPG, stop the nonsense. JRPG are still niche outside of Japan, despite what you want to believe. WRPG a bit less thanks to the numerous ones on PC, thus why japanese devs try to westernize their JRPG (and fail). BUt JRPG never were a casual thing in the West. And especially in Europe.

If you were living in Europe, you would know that most JRPG are not even localized there, so they just can't appeal to casuals. Most of Europe doesn't have English as its mother language, and most people in the biggest markets (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) are not used to subtitles. As most JRPG there get shitty english dubs with subtitles, and a lot don't even get localized to anything beyond english (Persona are in english, Valkyria too, ...), JRPG just can't be popular in Europe.

Of course, the OP wasn't talking about anything besides Japan, where the JRPG sales matter.

I think it makes sense to ignore the big RPG systems.  Xbox 360 and PS3 are known as the worst current systems to put JRPGs on (least amount of JRPG fans, most expensive to make games for, the systems ruin companies).  However, even systems were it doesn't make much sense to put JRPGs on are still systems.  They need their loving too and this thread is perfect for them.

To be fair Blue Dragon sold 200 k when there were only what, 400 k X360s in Japan. WKC sells 200 k when there are nearly 3 million PS3s.

Install base =/= software sales

When OH WHEN will people learn about market saturation? :(

Blue Dragon's 200.ooo numbers were not debut numbers, they are LTD.

WKC's are YTD, and first week/first day debut figures. Theres a difference.

Plus blue Dragon was selling due to the popular artwork and design behind it. It was promoted as Akira Toriyama's next video game master piece in the league of Dragon Quest.

He wasn't talking about the genres, but about the games.

Most JRPG released on XB360 to date were mediocre or average at best.

One notable exceptions is ToV.

Even Trusty Bell was touted as very good, to be revealed to be mediocre once the port to PS3 was announced.

Lost Odyssey is the XB360 JRPG that sold the most WW, so it is the benchmark for HD JRPG.

Also, Trusty Bell invalidates yet another pipe dream that PS3 had no traditional JRPG so supposedly that's why people buy WKC.

Also, if it's confirmed that the shipment of WKC was 240k, and it sold nearly that, then it's surpassed expectations, as that would mean it's sold out. BTW, it seems like the game IS sold out in Japan.