Thomcult: Microsoft's top priority now needs to be investing havily into its online services like it has in the US and Europe, re-marketing those games that could have some appeal in Japan and securing more titles that will have mass appeal similar to that of Tales of Vesperia. Microsoft also needs to get itself sat back around the table with Square Enix for the possibility of bringing Final Fantasy XIII to the 360 in Japan too.
Microsoft will need to make real effort in the coming months to make sure that this success doesn't catch it by surprise and leaves consumers with the impression that it had given up on the region and that this success was a lucky accident. The Japanese market has shown with the Monster Hunter franchise that it is willing to come out en-mass for the sake of a single title. However, the last thing Microsoft wants to do is leave these new customers, who have shown them a great deal of good-faith with their enthusiasm for Tales of Vesperia, high and dry.
Nevada Dru from Bits & Pieces explores delayed gratification in JRPG's.
I really enjoyed this article, it was a good read. This quote gave me a chuckle, because it's true!:
"Pretty much every JRPG involves the player’s characters going from barely being able to lift a sword to killing God"
Final Fantasy 15 the ultimate delayed game with delayed story dlc shoveled in at the last second. Doesn’t ring the gratifying bell when I see that stupid car at all. Article+thumbnail is like describing a 5star meal while watching your cat clean its backside.
Replies(2)More specifically I would say JRPGs are progressive gratification. Basically like listening to prog music vs anything else which imo is the best. Even if a JRPG is all about the journey, generally speaking JRPGs keep getting better as opposed to other games which usually have their high points come in either too soon, or the best parts just aren't nearly as impactful.
Also don't forget the direct comparison that the old Square Enix president made. He said Western players like TWITCH games and eastern players love Cerebral games. Now it was taken as a racist slam. But he meant it as one of the reasons outside of development time and cost return on investment(ROI). But he had a true point people here are TRAINED to like instant stuff. And people there are trained to like delayed over the top stuff. It is not a intelligence slam. I'm glad I LOVE the later gratification! Because it is way better!
The Tales games may be less recognizable than the Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy games, but that doesn't mean that they aren't worth playing!
“Tales series is considered one of the top three Japanese RPG series next to RPG giants like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.”
How you gonna talk about the top three JRPG franchises and not mention Pokémon, the top selling series in the genre?
This is how the top JRPG series stack up
1. Pokémon - 340M
2. Final Fantasy - 144M
3. Dragon Quest - 78M
4. Monster Hunter - 52M
5. Kingdom Hearts - 30M
6. Souls - 25M
7. Tales of - 20M
Ten years ago, early in the lives of both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, Microsoft scored a coup when it secured the latest game from Namco's long-running Tales franchise - which had been almost exclusive to PlayStation since Tales of Destiny in the '90s.
Things got even more heated after Tales of Vesperia eventually did end up on PS3, in even better form, with new content and characters. But much to PS3 fans' consternation, Namco Bandai opted to keep the enhanced port Japan-exclusive.
Until last year, when Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition was announced for all existing platforms. The question remains: Was it worth the wait?
It is indeed. Havent felt this good for a tales game since....well vesperia on the 360. Namco needs to go back to these roots.
Phantasia will forever be my ideal tales game. But if they could do a solid remake in current engine I would be thrilled to relive that awesome game
I don’t think there’s any definitive ideal Tales game since they all have their own individual merit from one another
The next thing 360 will do is giving up cause its hopeless
I hope it does well :)
IU and Star Ocean coming the xbox360 should be okay if not better for a couple of months to come.
But when ff13 and ff versus 13 drop things may be different. MS needs to stay as the console with the most JRPGs if they want to capture the Japanese market I guess.
OFF TOPIC: does anyone know what happened to White Knight for the PS3?
The release of Too Human in Japan will surely spike hardware sales up
What's next for MS? The impact with the bottom which is rushing up to meet them fast.