My brother and i split ...he got the best WRPG (DA) and i got the best JRPG (DS) ..and when we're done playing we trade =)

In the past, I also thought that Sony fans in general preferd JRPG's to Western RPG's. But when I look the numbers from this site, I was very surprised to see that RPGs in both PS1 and PS2 were dominated by main FF games BIG TIME. One of my favorite on the PS1: Legend of Dragoon, didn't even reach 2 Millions WW. I made a thread entitled: "There are a few RPG fans, but a lot of FF fans". I think you might find it interesting.

the console to Dragon Age attach rate is pretty close for both games. I would imagine if Sony had 20+ million PS3 sold in America like the 360 they would be pretty close in sales!

I have the game. I think most skipped cos they were complaining about frame rate drops on the ps3 version. I did experience these frame rate drops but I dont think they made the game unplayable like many would lead you to believe.

Also, it would seem like when the game launched, ps3 versions were hard to find in many retil stores for some reason (going by posts on gamefaqs.com). I had no trouble finding it cos I buy all my games from amazon.com

i know it pisses me off to!

However my reason for now owning this game is... its to violent! *goes to buy assassins creed II* lulz for hypocrisy!

The problem you're seeing is not that it sold badly for what it is on the PS3, it sold great on the Xbox 360 and that causes you to percieve a problem with the PS3 versions sales. Theres nothing wrong with the sales on the PS3 its just that the Xbox 360 had first dibs on Oblivion, they had Fallout 3, Exclusivity on Fallout 3 DLC, Fable 2 and Mass Effect 1/2. If the above games sold systems for the Xbox 360, then the gamers which bought the systems will continue to buy WRPGs for that system. The Xbox 360 has a core RPG audience and WRPGs sell up to around 3M and not more whereas the PS3 does not have as large of an audience for this time of game even relative to overall console sales.

i think the PS3 fanbase is just jmore harder to please then any other because we ussed to geting the best. I mean we have Sony first oarty 2nd party at our disposal.

In my opinion games dont get better then htat most of the time.


And this game in my opinion is shit. Along side.

Mass effect
Fallout 3
elder scrolls oblivion
borderlands and a few more

They are in my opinion crap. I prefer if you wanna categorize it Jrpg's

I'm a PS3 owner, and I was going to buy it...untill I found out about all the DLC that would soon follow, I figured I'd simply wait for a game of year edition similar to fall out 3 and get it then, and if they don't do one, then I simply will not buy it, simple as that really.

My thoughts exactly!

A couple of reasons I think. First of all, the Xbox has an advantage over the PS3 when it comes to WRPGs, and they sell better on the Xbox. Second, BioWare is much more widely known among the Xbox community than it is among the Playstation community. There were probably a fair number of people whose number one reason for buying the game was because BioWare's name's on the box, they really have a dedicated following, and since their major releases of the past six years have all been on Xbox, it gives it an advantage there. Squilliam's right too with his other examples, and I'll point out all of those developers released a title on the original Xbox while none of them did on the PS2, which is another reason why WRPGs are more popular on Xbox.

Also, to whoever was commenting about watching videos of the battle system and being bored, I have to tell you that that is probably one of my least favorite parts of this game (essentially it's just the KOTOR battle system anyway). What makes WRPGs, and this game in particular, fun for me is conversing with NPCs, following the twists and turns of the storyline, reading the codex entries which provide an amazingly deep backstory for the game, and making decisions and seeing how they play out. If the game were just a bunch of levels with the battle system tacked onto it, I wouldn't buy it either, because combat is really not the reason I buy these sort of games. Some may see it differently though.