I can't speak to the sales in Japan, but I imagine releasing it in North America in the middle of the holiday crunch (first week of November) really didn't help things. Pushing out a new IP during that period just feels like a bad move.

Yeah trophies would have been cool. Especially for beating the 'hard' levels. Holy sh1t those were hard.

I don't think marketing for that game was good. I have a lot of friends thath have PS3 but don't know about VC, they think it is some generic Jrpg.
Atlus is doing good job with marketing Dsouls, educating people about the game, that is why a lot of PS3 owners are interested in that game, i think that is essential thing to do with new IPs.

Actually it has sold more than 500k, and Sega is quite happy with the sales. May be it has something to do with the recession, who knows?

Of course SEGA is going to say something like that, if they were "happy" than sequel would be also for PS3, not PSP. it is VC2 not some spin off. It is good that they believe in IP and want to support it, and i am sure it will come back to PS3 eventually, but i doubt they were "happy". 500k was good durring PS1 era, and VC desereved at least 1.0-1.5 million

I agree with you that it deserves at least 1.5 million sales, but at the same time I don't think Sega expected this game to sell a million. In any case I hope the sequel is great. May be the third one will be on ps3, who knows?

What JRPG has sold that many this gen let alone a an SRPG?

It's a neich game, 500k for a neich game with little advertising that spread by word of mouth is fantastic. What it deserved and what it had realistic expecatations of selling are two different things.

I agree while 500K isn't a bad figure, the game deserves better sales, at least a million IMO. Sega made the canvas engine for this game so another PS3 bound VC makes sense.

Not to mention that it has sold almost twice as much as TOV, a traditional jrpg. That's quite impressive in a way.

Just as a reference Amazon was selling ToV at $15 very recently and then it went back to $20+. VC lowest price point was $30 (Gamespot). It sold out and it's currently $40 everywhere.

The PSP version is cheaper to make and the system is more popular than the PS3 in Japan. So it's not really surprising to see VC2 end up on PSP.

at least VC became popular enough to get sequels AND an anime adaptation ... for a new titles this was unexpected .. and this proves that sega has some plans for this franchise ...

VC1 sold more than 500k which is very very good for a niche SRPG (a genre thats not known for selling tons).
The sad thing is, VC2 will probably achieve something similar to VC1 but it'll cost much less to produce.
Sad times :(
I want another VC for PS3.