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Boneitis on 15 November 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
@outlawauron

sure I'll see what you come up with in the morning as I'm still confused by what you mean by niche then lol

I thought niche was just an excuse for Wii games that don't sell very well.

Nobody can define niche, they just slap it on less popular games.



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KungKras on 15 November 2009

auch!

that's pretty bad for a game with the FF brand that they put effort into.

But still, it's a spinoff series. A real FF would probably have done much better.



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reaver_x on 15 November 2009

to get back on topic here im not that surprised by the sales. A vast majority of 3rd party games sell like shit on the wii ex. Conduit , madworld, Dead space Extraction etc and looks like an FF spinoff is no exception. But yea i agree that a main line FF game would sell a hell of a lot more. Hopefully this means that KH3 wont be on the Wii =)




 

 

                     

forest-spirit on 15 November 2009
Boneitis said:
darthdevidem01 said:
@outlawauron

sure I'll see what you come up with in the morning as I'm still confused by what you mean by niche then lol

I thought niche was just an excuse for Wii games that don't sell very well.

Nobody can define niche, they just slap it on less popular games.

A niche game target's a small fanbase. Niche games are often low-budget and doesn't have much advertising. I think :P



reaver_x on 15 November 2009

i dont think a company like EA will be pleased with the sales DS: extraction and doubt SE will be pleased either with crystal bearers. If there smart they wont put KH3 on the wii




 

 

                     

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damkira on 15 November 2009
Zucas said:
Oh geez I was expecting about 50k-75k first week. Obviously not even close. Guess the Japanese were not looking forward to this FF spinoff... even though they buy every one of them on DS haha.

It can easily reach those sales.. the 26k was only for first day.\

 



forest-spirit on 15 November 2009

The preview is up and CB probably did about 35k first week. Who's with me on some praying and chanting? Doesn't matter which God you pray to, just pick someone and hopefully one of us will be successful. Some one will have to do the hard task of selling his soul to the devil, but remember it's all for the greater good.



jarrod on 15 November 2009
Zuhyc said:
jarrod said:
hanafuda said:
'3D Dot Game Heroes just came out, and showed us how a high quality niche game sells on PS3.  Not any better than Wii it turns out.The only real high budget Japanese 3rd party game we've seen on Wii was Monster Hunter 3 and it's outsold everything on the HD consoles so far.'.

Demon's Souls? VC?

Also, FF CC is a high budget JPN 3rd party Wii game.

Demon's Souls isn't 3rd party.  Valkyria Chronicles isn't really niche either (decent budget, big promotion, Sakura Taisen successor).

FFCC is pretty high budget, but it has a host of issues working against and probably would've flopped just as hard regardless of console.

It is third paty. SCEJ did help developing the game though.

It's first party.  Sony produced, funded and own the game.  It's a Sony game, they just hired FROM to develop it.

 

outlawauron said:
jarrod said:
hanafuda said:
'3D Dot Game Heroes just came out, and showed us how a high quality niche game sells on PS3.  Not any better than Wii it turns out.The only real high budget Japanese 3rd party game we've seen on Wii was Monster Hunter 3 and it's outsold everything on the HD consoles so far.'.

Demon's Souls? VC? 

Also, FF CC is a high budget JPN 3rd party Wii game.

Demon's Souls isn't 3rd party.  Valkyria Chronicles isn't really niche either (decent budget, big promotion, Sakura Taisen successor).

FFCC is pretty high budget, but it has a host of issues working against and probably would've flopped just as hard regardless of console.

No matter how much promotion a game receives, it's doesn't change what kind of game it is.

Valkyria Chronicles, even in your twisted world where it actually had advertising, will always be a niche game due to game itself.

Japanese SRPGs aren't inherently niche.  Super Robot Taisen isn't.  Arc the Lad wasn't.  Sakura Taisen wasn't.  Final Fantasy Tactics isn't.  And when you get down to it, neither is Valkyria Chronicles. 

This isn't NIS, Compile Heart or Idea Factory shovelware we're talking about.  It's a SEGA game, with a bigger JP push than anything from the company last year besides the two Yakuza games, from the team behind Sakura Taisen, with an anime tie in and a sequel already in the wings.  Too much money, publicity and expertise was put behind Valkyria for it to be "niche" in it's homeland.  



hanafuda on 16 November 2009

'I thought niche was just an excuse for Wii games that don't sell very well.'.

lol

I think you nailed it.



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KungKras on 16 November 2009
reaver_x said:

i dont think a company like EA will be pleased with the sales DS: extraction and doubt SE will be pleased either with crystal bearers. If there smart they wont put KH3 on the wii

Dragon quest X and Epic Mickey will be the deciders for that.



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