Sony Dominating RPG Scene in Japan

Plenty of RPGs will be shipping this month in Japan...but only one of them will be appearing on a machine without a PlayStation logo.

[imoutofthecontest]

Meruru and Yakuza are gonna sell barrel loads....

[SpaceSquirrel]

Yakuza of the End is finally coming out.

[TheColbertinator]

Not too hard anymore with Nintendo and Microsoft practically ignoring the biggest genre in Japan at the moment.

Japan doesn't care for Xbox and Nintendo relies on Pokemon as its main RPG.

[VampiricDragon]

only microsoft.

Nintendo just released an rpg last month dude.

And when the 3ds gets going. Watch out

[StbI990]

just no

[the_kutaragi_baka]

glad for this...

the market need jrpgs..

[VampiricDragon]

jrpgs are booming at the moment on all systems

The ps3 is the only system where jrpgs have gone down from its predecessor.

ds,psp,wii,360 are all up. And the 3ds for being only 4 months old has a metric ton in development

[MinusTheBear]

Actually there are plenty of JRPGs on the PS3, a lot of them just need to get localized. Not many Japanese companies are big enough to develop for the PS3 while the PS2 was much cheaper and easier.

[Istanbull]

The predecessor of the PS3 has the biggest RPG library, why do u compare it to a 4 year old console like the PS3? Also, PS3 now has more rpgs then 360, only this year rpgs like WKC2, Atelier Meruru, Hyperdmension Neptunia and others

[femshep]

now the trend just needs to come to the west so FPS wont be the top genre

[Tachyon_Nova]

I doubt people who play FPS games only will have the patience for RPG's.

Edit: @ irfan - Yeah I should have clarified that by saying 'most' FPS gamers won't have the patience for RPG's, there will of course be some who do. However, I doubt wether enough FPS gamers could be converted into RPG gamers to make it the biggest genre.

[femshep]

yeah and when they do play them they complain cause its not like call of duty even if the games are really good

[Frak]

PS3 FTW

[FlashXIII]

But how many of the rpgs that are coming out going to be translated to English? I couldn't give a two shits about how the ps3 is dominating in Japan with games I'll never get to see or play.

[VampiricDragon]

most of us do care. Because as a real rpg fan we do whatever it takes. And alot of them are.

[Inception]

From the article:
- Yakuza of the End. Chances gettin english ver is big, consider Yakuza 3 n 4 already localized by SEGA.

- Tiny Batlers. Well i'm not so sure about this but it's made by Level 5 so chance for english ver is big.

- Atelier Meruru. 100% NISA will localized it, just like Atelier Rorona and Meruru.

Other titles in that articles already localized (Valkyria Chronicles, Tales of the Abyss [PS2])

[knifefight]

A lot of those have things going for them like you point out, but there are also some notes that make them not quite sure things.

Yakuza 3 and 4 did come over, but PS3's Yakuza: Kenzan did not and neither did the PSP spinoff. It seems like numbered entries make it over consistently but spinoffs are another matter. I HOPE it comes over, but there's reason to doubt.

Atelier Meruru will depend entirely on the sales of Atelier Totori. It took NIS America so long to announce localization on Totori because the company was waiting for Rorona to prove profitable.
On DS, Atelier Annie came over, but Atelier Lina didn't because Annie's sales were too low.

Meruru does indeed have a good chance, but only if gamers buy Totori.

Tiny Battlers, yeah, that could go either way.

[Inception]

@knifefight
Well the reason Kenzan not localize is because Yakuza 2 sold very poorly in US. In fact, if yakuza fans not made some petition for SEGA, i don't think we ever seen Yakuza 3 and 4. So i still hope Kenzan, Black Panther (PSP), and of the End got localize...

Imho, for small company like GUST, they don't need very big sales to localized their game. For example, Rorona sales in japan are low (sold like 130.000 copies) if we compare to big hitters like FF / DQ. And when they released it in the west, it just sold 70.000 copies. But those sales just above their expectation. So i think it's save to assume that GUST / NIS will localize Meruru.