24th December 2006, 1:19 PM
Quote:How well did Tales of Symphonia sell? The PS2 is saturated with RPGs, only the best of the best stand out now. Tales has always been just a little above average. It did relatively well on the GC because it was one of very few RPG options. It probably didn't do as well as they wanted it to though which is why you didn't see more games in the series on the GC.
450,000 US GC or something? Better than Baten Kaitos, which DID get a GC sequel (which did terribly, probably because people liked ToS more than Baten Kaitos...), and as I said quite bit better than Legendia or Abyss US sales. In Japan the PS2 ones (there are five PS2 Tales games in Japan) did sell better than Symphonia on GC, I think, which is why the decision was made; it had nothing to do with US sales, as always.
Namco didn't put Tales of the Abyss on GC because Namco, like Sega, makes bad decisions about which platforms to put its games on.
Quote:Capcom has previously released most of their big games on Japanese consoles, the GC and Playstation. They left some rather crappy left overs for the Xbox. Not so now. Capcom's Dead Rising has sold close to one million. Lost Planet and both of the demos released earlier this year on Xbox Live became the fastest and most downloaded demos at their time. Resident Evil 5 went multiplatform and is headed for 360 as well as PS3.
That's not quite true... Xbox didn't have Capcom exclusives, but at least they released a bunch of their 2d fighting games on it... GC only got CvS2. :(
Other than that though that's mostly right. If you said that as "PS2" instead of "Japanese platforms" though, I'd say.