bcn-ron said:
I also suggest looking up US sales of XBox 360 JRPGs. They don't sell enough to make up for losing most of the Japanese audience. Maybe that was once the hope, but a false hope it turned out to be.
To be fair, the PS2 had a massive gulf between Kingdom Hearts / FF... and everything else.
All numbers from NPD leaks on public sites (no special data here) as of January 2008:
KH > 3 million
FFX > 2.5 million
KH2 > 2 million
FFXII > 1.75 million
...
Star Ocean > 600k
DQ8 > 500k
Xenosaga 1 ~500k
.hack 1 ~400k
...
Everything else 250k or less, with stuff like Persona 3 at the top and even "hits" like Nocturne being 5 digits or low 6.
Without speculating on 360 LTDs, since we don't have numbers for those, LO did 200k month one which would put it pretty much squarely in that second category, which is where it should be relative to profile.
I don't know how anyone could have expected any of the currently released jRPGs on 360 to break more than the top non-KH/FF jRPGs on the PS2. Even Xenosaga and .hack crawled to those numbers (2k a month over ~100 months is 200k, for example)
Airkiru said:
I guess you're not familiar with the 'business entity concept'.
Are you suggesting executive to executive bribes?
(For those not familiar; business entity concept basically means the company is separate from its owners, business money is business money.)