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Magnific0 on 06 February 2009

Pretty good numbers for Demon's Souls...what did Famitsu score it again?



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blackstar on 06 February 2009

demon's souls looks weird in every trailer I've seen,
hope software makes some profit



Stats87 on 06 February 2009
Magnific0 said:
Pretty good numbers for Demon's Souls...what did Famitsu score it again?

 

9/7/7/6

Dengeki gave it 85/85/85/95



Valkyria00 on 06 February 2009
shams said:
re: Wii & RPG titles:

In terms of RPGs, the Wii is easily the weakest platform. The 360/PS3 have more and better RPGs - not to mention bigger budget RPGs. The DS kicks its butt. And the PS2... well, better not mention that.

On top of that, the Wiimote just isn't designed for RPGs - at all. Maybe it could be - but not traditional RPGs, no way. Action games... Sports games... but not RPGs.

Heck, it hasn't even got a SINGLE decent RPG from Nintendo: Golden Sun, Paper Mario (Super Paper does NOT count), Pokemon, Mario RPG, ...

In fact - I have pretty good collections for both the Wii & DS. I don't have a SINGLE Wii RPG (no, Zelda doesn't count). On the DS, I have 8...

Just about says it all. RPGs may *never* take off on the Wii, just like fighting games won't.

Are you serious?

OT:Disappointing sales for Another Code. I still hope they bring it to NA. I dunno if the DS did will Im too lazy to check...

 



Barozi on 06 February 2009
Lafiel said:

@ Barozi )

take a deep breath and calm down

(I hope)no one wants to say Ninja Blade was bad only because it sold badly (as expected I guess? - well, I personally expected it to do a little bit better though) and in turn you don't have to try to talk down Demons Soul's merits of selling relatively well by making it seem like RPGs always sell bucketloads - there are many (J)RPGs even on the DS (the best sold system ever in Japan), that didn't even get close to 7k sales

The funny thing is, I never said anything negative about Demon's Souls' sales. I even think they are pretty decent.

Anyway I was talking about consoles here and not handhelds. I should have made this more clear.



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outlawauron on 06 February 2009

Demons Souls seem to be selling out.



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luisgvm on 06 February 2009

in the demons souls live feed the game looked really great. the gameplay was not slow like in the first gameplay trailers, and the game is reallyyyyyy hard and the graphics are great (well at least for me) and the opening cinema is freaking amazing¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ and the game is kinda scary too, it have that dark atmosphere. lets hope it keeps selling great.



shams on 06 February 2009
wenlan said:
shams said:
Well, lets be fair here. Demon Soul is a pretty big budget game, aimed squarely at the Japanese market. Sales look pretty promising - although its bound to be top-heavy.

That is so not true.  Japanese retailers completely screwed up for this one.  They underestimated the demand of this game and ordered too few copies for sale.

Honestly, with so little information about this game before launch, and the art style of this game is so westernized, who would have thought that this game could be decent and Japanese core gamers totally buying into it.

Well, it seems a very Japanese market game to me. Nothing to do with sales though - its no surprise retailers haven't order a huge number of units.

So how many games that are NOT established IPs have actually done well in Japan over the last 6-12 months? Any?

 



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BKK2 on 06 February 2009
Soriku said:
shams said:
re: Wii & RPG titles:

In terms of RPGs, the Wii is easily the weakest platform. The 360/PS3 have more and better RPGs - not to mention bigger budget RPGs. The DS kicks its butt. And the PS2... well, better not mention that.

On top of that, the Wiimote just isn't designed for RPGs - at all. Maybe it could be - but not traditional RPGs, no way. Action games... Sports games... but not RPGs.

Heck, it hasn't even got a SINGLE decent RPG from Nintendo: Golden Sun, Paper Mario (Super Paper does NOT count), Pokemon, Mario RPG, ...

In fact - I have pretty good collections for both the Wii & DS. I don't have a SINGLE Wii RPG (no, Zelda doesn't count). On the DS, I have 8...

Just about says it all. RPGs may *never* take off on the Wii, just like fighting games won't.

 

All the 360 has this year is SO4, and the PS3 has FF XIII (Japan only), Demon's Soul, and X Edge. Bigger budget, yes. But they're HD games. Of course they have bigger budgets. But quanitity wise? That's a huge no.

X Edge is a pretty low budget game, not all HD games have big budgets, especially in Japan. See Agarest Senki, Disgaea etc.

 



Xyrax on 06 February 2009

Depressing numbers all around. Not even worth hopping into a heated debate about what flopped and what sold well when everything started below 25k. Its a real shame whats happening over there with console gaming.