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outlawauron on 21 April 2009
Vetteman94 said:
outlawauron said:
Euphoria14 said:
outlawauron said:
And I think I need to mention that I'd pay obscene amounts of money for that Valkyria painting/picture/poster.

I am sure everyone knew that without you needing to mention it.

I also think you should automatically win the VC contest just because you spread more word about this game than anyone else by far. SEGA should send you something for being quite possibly the games biggest fan.

I wish. If I were only closing than a few thousand miles away from SEGA of America where they have had a few events, I'd be there.

I don't want to win the contest only because I already have the figures and the art book. The love needs to be spread.

Yes spread it to me, even though I dont have a chance in hell of winning that contest.

It's alright. You can do it. 

I'm not entering.....



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PullusPardus on 21 April 2009

And as a victory fanfare heres something for every fan! =]



Vetteman94 on 21 April 2009
outlawauron said:
Vetteman94 said:
outlawauron said:
Euphoria14 said:
outlawauron said:
And I think I need to mention that I'd pay obscene amounts of money for that Valkyria painting/picture/poster.

I am sure everyone knew that without you needing to mention it.

I also think you should automatically win the VC contest just because you spread more word about this game than anyone else by far. SEGA should send you something for being quite possibly the games biggest fan.

I wish. If I were only closing than a few thousand miles away from SEGA of America where they have had a few events, I'd be there.

I don't want to win the contest only because I already have the figures and the art book. The love needs to be spread.

Yes spread it to me, even though I dont have a chance in hell of winning that contest.

It's alright. You can do it. 

I'm not entering.....

Its alright,  I settled for the SE from Japan, and I'll probably pick up the other figures on ebay or something

 



Kasz216 on 21 April 2009
outlawauron said:
Kasz216 said:
leo-j said:
rover said:
The fact that this is so highly rated, that the Playstation brand is considered "the best platform" for JRPGs and yet this has sold so little doesn't speak well to the health of the genre as a whole.

~350k WW sales can't be making any of the creators happy.

I think beyond Japan these JRPGs can't really be considered system-sellers in today's age.

Or, perhaps PS3 owners have spoken about what entertainment titles they want... and they aren't JRPGs.

On the 360, Tales of Vesperia seems to have outlined that there are too many of these types of titles on the 360 for the market to support.

The difference in sales between the two (Vesperia on 360 and Chronicles on PS3) is only 80k units, and that's with Vesperia no longer being produced in the US...

Weird days indeed.

or the fact that its not a JRPG, its a SRPG, which tend to flop on consoles.

Consoles?  More like everywhere.

Yep. Can't think of SRPG that sold well without Final Fantasy in the title.

Super Robot Wars SRPGs come to mind.

Though to be fair... 90% of those have tons of famous anime robots in it.

OG outsold it too though... and that was just original characters.

 



outlawauron on 21 April 2009
Vetteman94 said:
outlawauron said:
Vetteman94 said:
outlawauron said:
Euphoria14 said:
outlawauron said:
And I think I need to mention that I'd pay obscene amounts of money for that Valkyria painting/picture/poster.

I am sure everyone knew that without you needing to mention it.

I also think you should automatically win the VC contest just because you spread more word about this game than anyone else by far. SEGA should send you something for being quite possibly the games biggest fan.

I wish. If I were only closing than a few thousand miles away from SEGA of America where they have had a few events, I'd be there.

I don't want to win the contest only because I already have the figures and the art book. The love needs to be spread.

Yes spread it to me, even though I dont have a chance in hell of winning that contest.

It's alright. You can do it. 

I'm not entering.....

Its alright,  I settled for the SE from Japan, and I'll probably pick up the other figures on ebay or something

They go for ~$30 on ebay. The new swimsuit figures go for more.



"We'll toss the dice however they fall,
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall,
Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,
To dance with Jak o' the Shadows."

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Mirson on 21 April 2009

That's a cool poster in the OP. Good news.



rover on 21 April 2009

Haha... Wow, everyone's really touchy in this thread.

My apologies. Apples to apples, oranges to oranges.

Valkeria is not doing as well as it should/could for a title of its quality. This seems to speak more about PS3 owners - who AREN'T buying it than anything else.

If you make it and no one buys it, despite fantastic reviews, what does that say to the developers who poured millions into its creation? People are dumb? Not much comfort as their publisher reconsiders whether they should invest in these types of games moving forward, or at best reduce the budgets and scope.

And the Vesperia reference was merely to point out that good titles go unplayed on both consoles.

Which again, says more about the purchasing patterns of the owners of the consoles than anything else. The PS3 version of Vesperia probably won't fare much better than the 360 version.

This title will probably end up in a "best games on the PS3 most people never played" list.



Vetteman94 on 21 April 2009
outlawauron said:
Vetteman94 said:
outlawauron said:
Vetteman94 said:
outlawauron said:
Euphoria14 said:
outlawauron said:
And I think I need to mention that I'd pay obscene amounts of money for that Valkyria painting/picture/poster.

I am sure everyone knew that without you needing to mention it.

I also think you should automatically win the VC contest just because you spread more word about this game than anyone else by far. SEGA should send you something for being quite possibly the games biggest fan.

I wish. If I were only closing than a few thousand miles away from SEGA of America where they have had a few events, I'd be there.

I don't want to win the contest only because I already have the figures and the art book. The love needs to be spread.

Yes spread it to me, even though I dont have a chance in hell of winning that contest.

It's alright. You can do it. 

I'm not entering.....

Its alright,  I settled for the SE from Japan, and I'll probably pick up the other figures on ebay or something

They go for ~$30 on ebay. The new swimsuit figures go for more.

Each or for the set?

 



outlawauron on 21 April 2009
rover said:
Haha... Wow, everyone's really touchy in this thread.

My apologies. Apples to apples, oranges to oranges.

Valkeria is not doing as well as it should/could for a title of its quality. This seems to speak more about PS3 owners - who AREN'T buying it than anything else.

If you make it and no one buys it, despite fantastic reviews, what does that say to the developers who poured millions into its creation? People are dumb? Not much comfort as their publisher reconsiders whether they should invest in these types of games moving forward, or at best reduce the budgets and scope.

And the Vesperia reference was merely to point out that good titles go unplayed on both consoles.

Which again, says more about the purchasing patterns of the owners of the consoles than anything else. The PS3 version of Vesperia probably won't fare much better than the 360 version.

This title will probably end up in a "best games on the PS3 most people never played" list.

That's not it at all. It wouldn't have sold much better on any platform. SRPG have limited fanbases. Go look at the sales of Fire Emblem. A very big RPG series and the Wii version hasn't even sold 500k!



"We'll toss the dice however they fall,
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall,
Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,
To dance with Jak o' the Shadows."

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markers on 21 April 2009

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