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Megadude on 26 May 2009

Sony should make a move for DQX "HD" if they really want to lock up Japan. Until then Wii will continue to dominate. There's the answer to the Wii owners loving RPG's. They know the biggest one in Japan is in fact coming to Wii.



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PullusPardus on 26 May 2009
NoCtiS_NoX said:

37% of the Wii owners snapped up the console up to be used as a health tool,



psrock on 26 May 2009

I am more intrigued by 48% of wii owners did not buy it for games.



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routsounmanman on 26 May 2009

Maybe that's why DQX, Tales of Graces and MH3 (although NOT and RPG) are all on Wii. Sounds fair; I bet most RPG fans, especially JRPG fans will own a Wii by the end of this gen.



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txrattlesnake on 26 May 2009
NoCtiS_NoX said:
Since there are few JRPG was released on the PS3 and there are more JRPG on the Wii. The answer seems obvious. No Tales yet. No SE JRPG yet. No Shin Megami Tensei yet. Almost all of the PS3 owners are MGS fan, RE fan, Yakuza fan, Devil May Cry fan. All of them are Action-Adventure titles.


That means there are a lot Japanese racing game fans left to pick up a PS3 for GT5 and a lot of Japanese rpg fans left to pick up a PS3 for the two Final Fantasies.



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BladeOfGod on 26 May 2009
Dazkarieh said:
I pity them...


I pity you...



rudyrsr8 on 26 May 2009

Was that to be unexpected?



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outlawauron on 26 May 2009
Rei said:

   Looks like a legit research for the most part, but .. Wii owners prefer RPGs? Wat?! The most successfull RPG on the Wii in Japan is only the 14th best selling game on the system (that, if you consider DQ Swords an RPG).

   I can believe that PS3 owners prefer action games, however, as top 3 most successfull PS3 games in Japan are all action games.

This is what's making me wonder as well. If there's so many RPG fans on Wii, why don't they buy them?



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Dazkarieh on 26 May 2009
BladeOfGod said:
Dazkarieh said:
I pity them...


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outlawauron on 26 May 2009
Soriku said:
outlawauron said:
Rei said:

   Looks like a legit research for the most part, but .. Wii owners prefer RPGs? Wat?! The most successfull RPG on the Wii in Japan is only the 14th best selling game on the system (that, if you consider DQ Swords an RPG).

   I can believe that PS3 owners prefer action games, however, as top 3 most successfull PS3 games in Japan are all action games.

This is what's making me wonder as well. If there's so many RPG fans on Wii, why don't they buy them?


Because most of them are niche and wouldn't have sold on other systems. The good sized series like DQ and Tales have sold well (and these are spinoffs!). The Wii just needs more of those type of games, and you can't criticize it for not being able to sell smaller games. MH3, DQ X, Tales of Graces, SW3, etc. are going to build a really good Japanese/RPG fanbase on the Wii, there's no doubt about that.

Eh, they sold alright. And that's only relative to RPGs in previous generations and this generation.

If Japanese Wii owners truly prefered RPGs, then why haven't they bought them? There has been a very, very small amount released on Wii, and the best selling couldn't break into the Wii's top ten.



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