Since yesterday another high-anticipated game has hit the Japanese stores; Lost Planet. Today the first salesfigures have been revealed, saying that the game sold a little more than 20.000 copies on the first day.
Although it is absolutely no bad result for a first day, it just seems that Microsoft can't do anything good in the Japanese eyes. Despite games such as DOAX2, Blue Dragon and Lost Planet being released in the same month, sales figures are still below average.
I had it all wrong...Blue Dragon is awesome!
Lost Odyssey is one of the best jrpgs of that era but got killed because it was bought up and released on the "wrong" console.
Great game. The 360 had some really good turn based games back in the day. Absolutely loved Lost Odyssey too. I think they are both Sakaguchi creations.
This game together with Lost Odyssey, The Last Remenant and Tales of Vesperia convinced me to buy a 360. This game made my 2007 which ended off with mass effect.
Honestly, a fantastic game, especially if you were a fan of old-school JRPGs. I hate that this genre rarely can come back to these roots.
Destructoid: I remember where I was when Blue Dragon was announced. Although I already had an Xbox 360 and was ready for it, some folks I knew bought one just for it given who was involved (Nobuo Uematsu, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Akira Toriyama): as Mistwalker and Microsoft Game Studios made a mad dash to put out more games from Japanese studios on the Xbox ecosystem.
Blue dragon was fantastic. Love that game. It was my biggest reason for getting a 360.
i wanted to play it, but ...
1. its on xbox
and 2. i missed it when it was on gamepass ha.
I thought it was pretty good but I personally I think Lost Odyssey is better
Also, I know a lot of JRPGs are cheesy but damn…this one was amped up to 11.
I really wish Mistwalker would remaster these games... they're too busy with mobile unfortunately.
The Summer Game Fest 2023 revealed a new Akira Toriyama game called Sand Land, and it has more potential for greatness than a new Blue Dragon would.
Imma call bs on this. Sorry a blue dragon sequel would be dope and much needed. While this one I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I'm interested. I'm kinda stuck on vehicular action. That's where it's losing me.
Why can’t we just get both? In this gamer world of ours, it seems like it’s always one or the other. Games like these seem like they would print money for these development studios if they released multiplatform.
microsoft is playing the sony and nintendo strategy now, please japan first then the rest of the world, distinction treatment...
Hmmm, I think Microsoft have pleased the rest of the world already. Sony pleases Japan halfassed and F***s the rest of the world. 2 million units sold by the end of the year...yeah right. 1 million would be an achievement.
Just goes to show you. Japan is warming up to ms just a little bit every other year. I'm sure in 5 years or so when the new wave a consoles come out Japan will be ready for ms
By the time it has it's first price drop, in 6 months to a year, (which Sony can't do for a couple years), there will be several 360-exclusive games that will appeal to the Japan market. A $250-$300 Premium console, and several quality Japan-centric exclusives....they won't be able to ignore it anymore.
jajajaja, ms pleased the world, thats why they charge their consumers double and wont edmit it.. and why are you all diffending ms like bill gates is doing your moms?? in 5 years ms is goin back 2 making software for sony like sega same faith same dastany hohahahahaho.. and soon will see lost planet coming to the legend ps3.