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MANUELF on 05 March 2009
Undying said:

Might as well post this.

Xbox 360
Lost Odyssey .91m
Blue Dragon .62m
The Last Remnant .58m
Infinite Undiscovery .46m
Tales of Vesperia .29m
Eternal Sonata .26m
Star Ocean: The Last Hope 0.17m (will go up drastically)
Enchanted Arms .14m
Phantasy Star Universe .10m
Spectral Force 3 .04m
Zoids Assault ~.02m
Operation Darkness .01m

PS3
Valkyria Chronicles .36m
White Knight Chronicles .33m (JP) (will go up)
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice ~.21m
Enchanted Arms .16m
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom .12m (JRPG?)
Eternal Sonata ~ .12m
X Edge .05m (JP) (will go up)

Wii
Pokemon Battle Revolution 1.30m
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors 0.59m
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn .40m
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World .36m
Dokapon Kingdom .08m
Rune Factory Frontier .04m
Opoona .04m
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (JP) .04m (will go up)
Baroque ~.03m
Harulanaru Toki no Naka de 4 ~.01m (JP)

As you can see there is no better console this gen for JRPGs than the 360 unless your game is called pokemon.

 

 And you call yourself a RPG fan? that's not even a RPG, is a medium to battle with 3D graphics. 



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Neoraf on 05 March 2009
Darc Requiem said:

Hard times for JRPG fans? No hard time for fanboys. JRPG fans buy the consoles with JRPGs. Fanboys buy consoles without JRPGs and whine about not having any JRPGs to play. Then they proceed to hit up video game forums and troll posts for the JRPGs they can't play because they didn't bother to check the release lists before making their purchase. This isn't 2005. It's obvious where the JRPGs are going at this point. Either buy the hardware that can play it, or shut up about it and give the rest of us true JRPG fans some peace.

This.

The PS1/PS2 era is over.
If you want to play JRPGs, you know what to buy.


 



     

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arsenal009 on 05 March 2009

Well last remnant sold decent & infinite undiscovery & star ocean will probably get to 600k sales as well. I don't see what the problem is.



MANUELF on 05 March 2009
Neoraf said:
Darc Requiem said:
 

Hard times for JRPG fans? No hard time for fanboys. JRPG fans buy the consoles with JRPGs. Fanboys buy consoles without JRPGs and whine about not having any JRPGs to play. Then they proceed to hit up video game forums and troll posts for the JRPGs they can't play because they didn't bother to check the release lists before making their purchase. This isn't 2005. It's obvious where the JRPGs are going at this point. Either buy the hardware that can play it, or shut up about it and give the rest of us true JRPG fans some peace.

This.

The PS1/PS2 era is over.
If you want to play JRPGs, you know what to buy.

 

Fixed



Riachu on 05 March 2009
Serapheart said:
Does anyone think that Square should start making games that aren't RPG's or games that aren't based off their existing RPG franchises?

They are already doing the latter with The World Ends With You, The Last Remnant, and a few other games that haven't been released outside of Japan yet.  It wouldn't be a good idea for S-E to do the former though.  With a few exceptions, most of there non-RPG games have been mediocre at best.

 



 

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Dianko on 05 March 2009
outlawauron said:
Barozi said:

I'll just quote myself from another thread:

Now to those people who scream "oooh SE you fail !!!".
They (SE) released the game (SO4) on the 360 for a reason. They knew it would not sell that many copies in Japan, but they surely received a bunch of money from Microsoft. Besides that the game engine was practically paid by MS. Never forget, MS published Infinite Undiscovery together with Square Enix.

The Last Remnant uses the Unreal 3 engine and SE had huge problems with porting the game to the PS3. However for a mediocre JRPG The Last Remnant sold great and you can't deny that. Even Infinite Undiscovery made a nice profit.

What now? You actually think IU actually made money?

 

Square-Enix almost certainly made money on IU. MS paid for the development, SE just had to publish it. Not only that, but SE saved millions on SO4's development since Tri-Ace used IU's engine.



Lord_Yggdrassil on 05 March 2009
MANUELF said:
Neoraf said:
Darc Requiem said:

Hard times for JRPG fans? No hard time for fanboys. JRPG fans buy the consoles with JRPGs. Fanboys buy consoles without JRPGs and whine about not having any JRPGs to play. Then they proceed to hit up video game forums and troll posts for the JRPGs they can't play because they didn't bother to check the release lists before making their purchase. This isn't 2005. It's obvious where the JRPGs are going at this point. Either buy the hardware that can play it, or shut up about it and give the rest of us true JRPG fans some peace.

This.

The PS1/PS2 era is over.
If you want to play JRPGs, you know what to buy.

 

Fixed

 

New JRPG's. Not ports/Remakes.



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MANUELF on 05 March 2009
Lord_Yggdrassil said:
MANUELF said:
Neoraf said:
Darc Requiem said:
 

Hard times for JRPG fans? No hard time for fanboys. JRPG fans buy the consoles with JRPGs. Fanboys buy consoles without JRPGs and whine about not having any JRPGs to play. Then they proceed to hit up video game forums and troll posts for the JRPGs they can't play because they didn't bother to check the release lists before making their purchase. This isn't 2005. It's obvious where the JRPGs are going at this point. Either buy the hardware that can play it, or shut up about it and give the rest of us true JRPG fans some peace.

This.

The PS1/PS2 era is over.
If you want to play JRPGs, you know what to buy.

 

Fixed

 

New JRPG's. Not ports/Remakes.

He never mentioned NEW games, and even with that the DS has A LOT more JRPGs than the 360.

 



outlawauron on 05 March 2009
Dianko said:
outlawauron said:
Barozi said:

I'll just quote myself from another thread:

Now to those people who scream "oooh SE you fail !!!".
They (SE) released the game (SO4) on the 360 for a reason. They knew it would not sell that many copies in Japan, but they surely received a bunch of money from Microsoft. Besides that the game engine was practically paid by MS. Never forget, MS published Infinite Undiscovery together with Square Enix.

The Last Remnant uses the Unreal 3 engine and SE had huge problems with porting the game to the PS3. However for a mediocre JRPG The Last Remnant sold great and you can't deny that. Even Infinite Undiscovery made a nice profit.

What now? You actually think IU actually made money?

Square-Enix almost certainly made money on IU. MS paid for the development, SE just had to publish it. Not only that, but SE saved millions on SO4's development since Tri-Ace used IU's engine.

Again, I'll say this. Do you think that IU actually made money? (as the amount of money spent into making the actual game was less than the amount brought in from sales)



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Avarice28 on 05 March 2009

Square enix should get "bought" out by EA and then and only then would we see "true" multiplatform games. Oh! plus we would get a final fantasy every year next to a copy of madden.  I am being sarcastic but the reality is their last few games with the exception of SO4 are just "meh" IMOB.  So I think they are going the route of most third parties and should be all absorbed by EA so we can stop this "exclusive" crap once and for all.