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Dark_Rulez89 on 01 August 2009

Actually surprised good sales, I don't know why some ppl in here say that "500k" is bad for new ips like I.U and last remnant,I can name like 5 JRPG's on the PS2 that didn't even reach that wide. And too ROBOTCHICKENHEAVEN there were some GOOD RPG's on the Xbox like fable 2(It is an RPG:p),Jade empire just too name a few..They just lacked the JRPG genre really badly last gen since PS2 had them all.

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ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 01 August 2009

@dark_rulez89, actually i consider fable series to be a action/rpg game. but still a good game and series. kotor and morrowind i think were the best rpg ( kotor ) and action/rpg ( morrowind ) on the xbox.



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outlawauron on 01 August 2009
Undying said:
outlawauron said:
Undying said:
squarehead said:
wow those aren't very good numbers

Pull up PS2 numbers that exclude the top tier JRPGS(FF, KH, DQ, ect) and you will see a similar pattern. Almost all of the JRPGs on the 360 are new IPs. I think those numbers are pretty good for new IPs.

You must consider that the lower sales of those RPGs are due to lack of advertisement which was not a problem for Star Ocean 4, Lost Odyssey, The Last Remnant, etc.

And i would say that outside of Japan most of those JRPGs did as well as their PS2 counterparts.

Tales of Vesperia and Star Ocean 4 did less than half of their prequels. (Tales of the Abyss did 600k and SO3 did 620k I think)



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Undying on 01 August 2009
outlawauron said:
Undying said:
outlawauron said:
Undying said:
squarehead said:
wow those aren't very good numbers

Pull up PS2 numbers that exclude the top tier JRPGS(FF, KH, DQ, ect) and you will see a similar pattern. Almost all of the JRPGs on the 360 are new IPs. I think those numbers are pretty good for new IPs.

You must consider that the lower sales of those RPGs are due to lack of advertisement which was not a problem for Star Ocean 4, Lost Odyssey, The Last Remnant, etc.

And i would say that outside of Japan most of those JRPGs did as well as their PS2 counterparts.

Tales of Vesperia and Star Ocean 4 did less than half of their prequels. (Tales of the Abyss did 600k and SO3 did 620k I think)

If you exclude Japan, then the 360 JRPGs did about the same as PS2 JRPGs. If there were 20 million 360s in Japan, then yeah JRPGs would do better.




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sguy78 on 01 August 2009

Seems pretty low.



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darkhaven63 on 01 August 2009
Riachu said:
pearljammer said:
Riachu said:
pearljammer said:
Undying said:
squarehead said:
wow those aren't very good numbers

Pull up PS2 numbers that exclude the top tier JRPGS(FF, KH, DQ, ect) and you will see a similar pattern. Almost all of the JRPGs on the 360 are new IPs. I think those numbers are pretty good for new IPs.

I agree while most of the new IPs seem to be selling, at the very least adequate, the ones that are not new IPs, SO4 and ToV (compare to either ToA, ToD2 ToR - with the last two only available in Japan), have sold much less than their PS2 counterparts.

SO4 was hurt by mixed reviews and ToV was hurt by poor marketing.  

Point taken with SO4, but it's still considerably less than its predecessor. Even when considering it's only a few months into its sales - jRPGs aren't know for their legs.

As for ToV; I'm sure there wasn't much more in terms of marketing for ToA, ToD2 and ToR

The later two Tales games never got released in the West.  Also, I am only talking about the West.  In Japan, Tales games are marketed very well.

The hell? And they can't do that here because why? I'm pretty sure it they would've marketed their games here in the West, then more than likely they would see an increase in sales like they did with TOS(if memory serves but I'm pretty sure they got help from Nintendo). Now if they could market TOV on PS3 in the West with help from Sony (If it gets here however)....



   

Riachu on 01 August 2009
darkhaven63 said:
Riachu said:
pearljammer said:
Riachu said:
pearljammer said:
Undying said:
squarehead said:
wow those aren't very good numbers

Pull up PS2 numbers that exclude the top tier JRPGS(FF, KH, DQ, ect) and you will see a similar pattern. Almost all of the JRPGs on the 360 are new IPs. I think those numbers are pretty good for new IPs.

I agree while most of the new IPs seem to be selling, at the very least adequate, the ones that are not new IPs, SO4 and ToV (compare to either ToA, ToD2 ToR - with the last two only available in Japan), have sold much less than their PS2 counterparts.

SO4 was hurt by mixed reviews and ToV was hurt by poor marketing.  

Point taken with SO4, but it's still considerably less than its predecessor. Even when considering it's only a few months into its sales - jRPGs aren't know for their legs.

As for ToV; I'm sure there wasn't much more in terms of marketing for ToA, ToD2 and ToR

The later two Tales games never got released in the West.  Also, I am only talking about the West.  In Japan, Tales games are marketed very well.

The hell? And they can't do that here because why? I'm pretty sure it they would've marketed their games here in the West, then more than likely they would see an increase in sales like they did with TOS(if memory serves but I'm pretty sure they got help from Nintendo). Now if they could market TOV on PS3 in the West with help from Sony (If it gets here however)....

I can understand why Atlus and NISA don't try TV commercials but Namco Bandai are a large company, they should be able to advertise all of their high profile games.



 

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darkhaven63 on 01 August 2009
Riachu said:
darkhaven63 said:
Riachu said:
pearljammer said:
Riachu said:
pearljammer said:
Undying said:
squarehead said:
wow those aren't very good numbers

Pull up PS2 numbers that exclude the top tier JRPGS(FF, KH, DQ, ect) and you will see a similar pattern. Almost all of the JRPGs on the 360 are new IPs. I think those numbers are pretty good for new IPs.

I agree while most of the new IPs seem to be selling, at the very least adequate, the ones that are not new IPs, SO4 and ToV (compare to either ToA, ToD2 ToR - with the last two only available in Japan), have sold much less than their PS2 counterparts.

SO4 was hurt by mixed reviews and ToV was hurt by poor marketing.  

Point taken with SO4, but it's still considerably less than its predecessor. Even when considering it's only a few months into its sales - jRPGs aren't know for their legs.

As for ToV; I'm sure there wasn't much more in terms of marketing for ToA, ToD2 and ToR

The later two Tales games never got released in the West.  Also, I am only talking about the West.  In Japan, Tales games are marketed very well.

The hell? And they can't do that here because why? I'm pretty sure it they would've marketed their games here in the West, then more than likely they would see an increase in sales like they did with TOS(if memory serves but I'm pretty sure they got help from Nintendo). Now if they could market TOV on PS3 in the West with help from Sony (If it gets here however)....

I can understand why Atlus and NISA don't try TV commercials but Namco Bandai are a large company, they should be able to advertise all of their high profile games.

Although Atlus and NISA don't advertise, at least they give their games a chance (Ever since SMT: Nocturne came State side and was rather successful at least every Mega Ten , Devil Summoner, and Persona game has stated to come stateside, Unlike other companies *coughNamcoandSquareenixcough*) Hence why they are at the top of my list of favorite companies



   

Aion on 02 August 2009
Undying said:
squarehead said:
wow those aren't very good numbers

Pull up PS2 numbers that exclude the top tier JRPGS(FF, KH, DQ, ect) and you will see a similar pattern. Almost all of the JRPGs on the 360 are new IPs. I think those numbers are pretty good for new IPs.

This, what do people expect in sales from new ip's and poorly advertised, poorly reviewed. And the Microsoft fanbase never really were a fan of jrpgs.



 

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Simulacrum on 02 August 2009

Wonder why Tales of vesperia was outsold by new ip:s, since Tales is well known.



 

 

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