It seems Kingdom Hearts 3, without any of the previous games being on Xbox One, is doing quite well.
Note that this is the US store.
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Kingdom Hearts 3 is #1 on US Xbox Store
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It seems Kingdom Hearts 3, without any of the previous games being on Xbox One, is doing quite well.
Note that this is the US store.
Damn.
Who knew?
At least we know Xbox users want to support Japanese games.
Just can't believe BO beat RE2...
Come on!
Who knew?
At least we know Xbox users want to support Japanese games.
Just can't believe BO beat RE2...
Come on!
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But Era told me listening to fans and include all the non numbered games in a bombastic climatic finale to all the storylines with some of the most popular Disney movies there are was too intimidating for newcomers and a recipe for failure!
Quick! Someone post the Polygon Review!
Hopefully this means Xbros get The Story So Far collection
Quick! Someone post the Polygon Review!
Jokes aside this is extremely well deserved
Hopefully this means Xbros get The Story So Far collection
Kingdom Hearts 3 is massive AAA game with Disney appeal. It was always going sell decently on Xbox especially in US where the userbase difference is not that big. We saw the same with FFXV. It's smaller JRPGs that rely on smaller niche audience where Xbox suffers.
That would be a dope, I could see them dropping it in a Inside Xbox episode.
It doesn't take much to move up these Xbox charts from what I've observed. Selling a few thousand copies can probably put you at the top. It's why while KH3 is at #1 right now it doesn't mean it's sold that many copies. I think some people here think that if you're in the #1 spot it means you've sold 100,000 copies or more and that isn't the case. Especially in a slow post holiday month like January when game sales are typically down a lot.
I mean, when you're beating Call of Duty in any measure of time, a game that routinely top 5s ALL YEAR LONG, I think 100k+ is a good estimate.
Ok. Who shopped this. Everyone knows Xbox owners don't buy JRPGs, let alone a third game in a confusing series without access to the first two games.
Come on.
Fess up.
Come on.
Fess up.
On what planet?
KH is the biggest JRPG in the west outside of Pokemon and Final Fantasy.
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Just what people were chirping in the RE2 vs KH3 thread. They were a bit delusional. Just making fun of them now.
I mean, KH3 was going to do well no matter what. It has Disney's backing and stamp so it doesn't matter if you're into the story or not, casuals would always play it because of Disney and X1 would do well on that front too since it's not a niche JRPG but a Disney game. Both FF and KH fit in this category and are really the only two exceptions. That's why FFXV was also #1 on X1 and did excellently on it. They both have mass appeal and are mainstream. Every other JRPG doesn't have this luxury, except Pokemon, but I don't consider it a JRPG.
Who's Era? Have I met them?
I feel like this post and this thread in general is a bit of jumping the gun. It's hard to extrapolate anything meaningful besides KH3's current position in the Xbox store. Anything more than that is just fodder for console warz type rhetoric.
I made my part. I'm not that big of a fan, but as I always say, any Japanese company supporting Xbox has my money. Luckily, I'm enjoying the game a lot, even more than the previous entries.
Hey, that's great. I always wanted to see more love for Japanese games on the system and seems folks were waiting the whole time.
Going to disagree with you there again based on what I've observed from these charts. I see games go on the weekly sale and end up topping games like COD all the time. I know damn well they aren't selling 100K just because they are discounted a little. Old games just don't sell like that especially in the course of a single week. Heck when Hellblade released on Xbox it was topping these charts too yet we know exactly how much it sold due to Ninja Theory showing us and it didn't get close to 100K in the week or 2 that they tracked it for their goal.
Just release a Story so Far on Xbox ffs
I would buy it instantly and an Xbox One X to play it at 60FPS
I would buy it instantly and an Xbox One X to play it at 60FPS
Hope it continues to have success on Xbox. Maybe that will mean they could port The Story So Far onto Xbox altho im not sure exactly they would touch up the older games to have Xbox inputs and all that.
I'm not sure why they wouldn't? They had to for the PS4 releases (changing Start to Options, Select to the touchpad, etc.).
Mainstream Japanese series like KH3 and mainline Final Fantasy's will do fine but beyond that are questionable.
The base PS4 can play can play the older games at 60 fps pretty easily if I recall. The One X would have no problem.
For how long will be in 1st place? When is the next chart update? Oh, it got 2 ratings with 5 stars.
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Not sure how often but it's fairly frequent. KH3 was at #2 yesterday. The Most Played page seems to update less frequent though.
same but you know how sometimes these companies just talk nonsense sometimes.
I actually don't remember Hellblade topping the charts. If I recall it was always selling pretty low and one of the highest rankings for it was in South America (I guess due to people getting it for a different price).
Regardless, you're right that we can't track exact copies sold from these charts. Hell no shop period allows for that. But the fact that KH3 along with numerous other Japanese titles are in the top 10 I think is nice to see. I certainly wouldn't complain about "selling 100k" if I saw DMC5 next month in the top seller spot for xbox either.
I think this was their highest rankings across the various regions stores:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...out-real-time-sales-on-xbox-live.35541/page-2
17th April
US #04
UK #04
CA #04
DE #01
FR #02
MX #06
BR #01
AU #07
In the US it was trailing only Far Cry 5 which was pretty new at the time, PUBG, and Fortnite both of which were at very high numbers back in early 2018. Despite that Hellblade still didn't do 100K worldwide even with all those high rankings in all those various regions.
Not saying KH3 isn't doing well because I'm sure it's doing fine. I just think that some people who see a game shoot to the top of these charts could get the wrong idea about how many copies are actually being sold.
Wonder if the Final Fantasy ports coming in April can hit that mark too. If so maybe it'll finally open some eyes to the fact that these games are wanted on Xbox.
To be fair, my wife - who has never played a Kingdom Hearts game and knows nothing about the story - has been watching me play and doesn't want to touch the game; she thinks that everyone is just talking nonsense half the time. So there are definitely people out there that feel this way.
It's pretty great to me, though.
Also, playing Kingdom Hearts on my One X looks amazing.
100% this, yet people seem to think big Japanese games dont do well on Xbox. For some strange reason people were looking at FF Type O to determine of there was interest on the Xbox, not even deep FF fans liked that game. If something is marketed well and treated as right, regardless of the platform it'll move units, especially if the game is good.
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People on this forum (an enthusiast gaming forum) actually thought there was no point in porting KH3 to Xbox because it wouldn't sell and that the only reason it released on Xbox is because SE announced the game before they realized how both consoles would sell.