Why Phantasy Star Zero did not sell as well as Phantasy Star Portable?

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Words Of Wisdom on 19 December 2009

patjuan32 said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

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Sega decide to go for the local multiplayer option, which is big in Japan, for PSP while opting to use the online mutiplayer option on the DS. Online gaming in Japan is not very popular. This is why PSP sold better than PSO.

Considering PS0 has online and offline multiplayer, I have no idea what your point is.

I do not recall,PS0, PSZero having a local Mutiplayer. It just has an online Mutiplayer and a story mode with AI partners. Maybe there is a way to play the game with friends offline?

PS0 has...

Story Mode (single player)
DS Wireless Play (offline multiplayer)
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (online multiplayer)

And its online multiplayer allows you to connect directly to other players and play the game co-op with up to 4 people.

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MaxwellGT2000 on 19 December 2009

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One thing is, while neither had ads or promotion, the PSP game was put on sale the second week it was released in Gamestops gamer days sale, so the games were put into a bin front and center of every store vs the DS game that was likely buried/mixed in with every other DS game.

The US sales are pathetic when compared to the Japanese sales. PSP sold over 600k in Japan alone, while it still barely broke the 150k in the US and EU. Zero is doing better in the west it would seem, but it did terrible in Japan compared to PSP.

The thing is that PsP is pretty much a futuristick MHP. And thats why Japanese gamers love them. These games sell well on the PSP, but they struggle to find an audience on the DS...

Ah for some reason I had in my mind about American sales since PS0 hasn't been long hit the states, ignore me :P

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outlawauron on 19 December 2009

Words Of Wisdom said:

outlawauron said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

patjuan32 said:
Sega decide to go for the local multiplayer option, which is big in Japan, for PSP while opting to use the online mutiplayer option on the DS. Online gaming in Japan is not very popular. This is why PSP sold better than PSO.

Considering PS0 has online and offline multiplayer, I have no idea what your point is.

Considering PSP has offline and online multiplayer, I have no idea what your point is.

You haven't played PSP have you so you really have no idea what point I just made or why your statement is mostly wrong.

I was just joking with you as I believe we've had this exact conversation before.

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chriscox1121 on 22 December 2009

christmas sales have boosted this game quite a bit recently. I think it would be awesome if we could get a Wii anniversary edition that had episode 0,12,4 or at least 1,2 and 4. Although, i would that probably wouldn't be good in the sense of me having no life at all.