I wouldn't call XCX bad. Severely flawed? Yes.
Hopefully the Switch port fixes some of its issues.
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 shipped 1.31 million units. Best-selling "Xeno" title ever?
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I wouldn't call XCX bad. Severely flawed? Yes.
Hopefully the Switch port fixes some of its issues.
I enjoyed it and it's a technical marvel, but it's pretty busted game design wise
Ummm...... the number of piracy happening does not equal the number of Software sales lost there. It just does not work like that. Those pirates simply won't buy the game there.
Again, Selling roughly 31% more based on what we know from previous Xenoblade number is not bad at all. It is a significant rise. The fact that now Xeno 2 had even beat all Xeno series previous numbers mean that this is indeed a breakout hit. No one in their right mind would thought that Xenoblade can sold 2-3 million in less than a year especially when histories had showed that Xenoblade is niche title still searching for it breakthrough hits. And this time, it seems to have found it.
I am actually getting lost on what the hell u wanted to said there lol.
I disagree with almost every single word you said, exploration aside.
But this is not the thread for it.
The only thing that was bad was the main quest and the small text size. Other than that the rest was great.
Glad about the sales for Xenoblade 2 though. Well deserved.
One can hope for the inclusion of a cellphone feature, or whatever they would call it on Mira to call party members up to add them to your party whenever, wherever!
I love the game to bits, but manually going to their fixed locations each and every time is not what one might consider the beacon of intuitiveness.
Didn't Terra Battle more or less have a TLS2-esque content drop added to it already?
I actually still wonder about how the IP ownership works, since it seems like Mistwalker has a lot more control over it than you would have expected otherwise.
I don't think XBX did much better than 500-600k, right? Based on what we know plus the thing with the first boss and how many people have beaten it online.
Well the main quest is kind of important for an rpg. And the systems were waaaaay more complicated than in XB2 so I think if it does get ported there will be a lot of disappointed people who really enjoyed XB2 (like myself).
Or at least port the original game so it dosent look and run like crap. That game while good is hard to go back to now.
It did over 200k retail it's first NPD and fairly in line with the other games in Japan. I'd guess more like 700-800k tbh.
Yes. It's one of the Wii games that could most benefit from an HD remaster.
You should also ask uncle Sakaguchi to make a console game while you are at it :ap
Hey, a remaster would suffice. I never got to play the original because it was already scarce in NA so it sure as hell wasn't going to arrive to Peru.
Perhaps if Nintendo does a complete edition, or a Nintendo selects line with it in somewhere down the line. It'll probably flatline before then otherwise.
As for xenoblade X... I think the best argument against a switch port is it's so different to both 1/2 in a lot of ways, that I wouldn't be sure it would appeal to those who liked 2, and you wouldn't want to accidentally kill the series momentum (not that X did that the first time, so it might be pointless worry on my part).
While I have my gripes with the game (characters designs are really inconsistent, world exploring is weaker than in XB1 and even XCX, the summon blade system being cack) its still a really solid game with deserved sales. Will be interesting to see where Monolith goes forward with this series.
Didn't we hear that Nintendo had plans for mobile games of multiple RPGs (they did count Zelda as an rpg though for this). Fire emblem already has a mobile game so I feel like one of them has to be xenoblade
This would be a great project for the SRT/PXZ team if the leads hadn't left.
Delighted to see it pass this milestone. 2m does seem unlikely to me, but 1.5m would be an incredible accomplishment and seems very doable.
Excited to jump back in tomorrow and get the new blades. :)
Excited to jump back in tomorrow and get the new blades. :)
Yeah, it's ls tough to find, because a lot of the original source links you can find in the articles leading up to the na launch, and in the months after for xenoblade are dead now. Even the articles on it, like igns link to a 404 now.
The only one that's left that I can find is the torrent freak 2011 tracker, showing xenoblade debut into the world of the pirate king at about just under 1 million in December of 2011.
https://torrentfreak.com/?s=Xenoblade
Anything xenoblade specific, has just gone down over the years, and links to the pages now 404. Maybe someone good with archive pages or something can find them. It's beyond my skill set in this regaurd.
But you don't Really need anything more, the original debut of 1 million makes the point quite succinctly.
There is confusion beyond that, because people brought up all the unreachable torrent sites that don't provide numbers, with some estimates being twice as high or more. Well, sure, it's conceivably possible, but that also applies to every other game, and it' also conceivably possible the most pirated game of all time isn't even on any list. But you can only work with what you got. But again, even if the number ended up at 2 million (And the highest I saw was 1.2) the initial 2011 amount 6 months before the na release, is more than enough to get the point of the games handling problems across.
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I am truly shocked that the first Xenoblade game to be released on a relevant console without any ridiculous release date/territory issues is the best-selling entry in the series. Truly shocked am I.
Hopefully Nintendo realizes that the game did well because they released it at the right time and on the right console, not because it went out of its way to pander otaku.
Hopefully Nintendo realizes that the game did well because they released it at the right time and on the right console, not because it went out of its way to pander otaku.
Tensions rise in the Xenoblade thread where people are forced to see the success of the things they hate.
but, it bested even old Xeno games so the "pandering to otaku" worked
What the hell lol
Anyway, I liked XCX, and I bought this at launch and need to actually play it. I love Monolithsoft and wish them all the success in the world.
Sure the reason why Fire Emblem Awakening sold its best also too is also because it had tons of waifu. Not because it had better gameplay, tons of improvement from its previous release and much more likeable artstyles. Yup. Not those things sure.
Whats with all these Salt?O_O
People were really banking on those character designs sinking the game.
Gears and Saga didn't release in a region. And Blade 1 was a gamestop exclusive. Blade 2 is like the only Xeno game that did not suffer from distribution issues. (I'm ignoring XCX, because it was on the wiiu) That said, it doesn't take away the fact that it is a well received game. While not my thing, loads of people enjoyed it.
Xenogears and Xenosaga only came out in Japan and the US, not Europe. That's pretty much the reason.
The game did well because they made a good game. The waifu stuff might have a small effect on sales but I'm 100% sure not even MonolithSoft would think that to be the cause of success.
Well Right time and Right console is just part of it.
It's also a good game. Wouldn't continue to sell if it was bad/poor word of mouth.
I mean it's sales are such that it'd probably still end up best selling even if they had been released in Europe
I don't mind being sub-native, I just don't want to be unable to see where I'm going or what I'm fighting lol
This forum is the only place I find fixated on the character designs. Pretty much no one I know who played it in real life or really any other place do I find this the focal point of discussion.
Like I don't think anyone cares whether they do or do not get rid of the waifus. That's why this discussion baffles me.
Like I don't think anyone cares whether they do or do not get rid of the waifus. That's why this discussion baffles me.
Nah, I've seen conversations about the designs (mostly Pyra and Rex) being the focus on other places such as several discords I'm in. This isn't exclusively an ERA thing.
Sure but well the first didn't and the third didn't. They put out a direct sequel to a game that never released. That shit was not going to sell. That's ignoring troubled development of the game.
No ones taking away the achievement of what Blade 2, however all of the previous games were hampered by something
Just Xenosaga 2. The middle (and least beloved, no less) installment of a series heavily built around plot continuity. There was no way it was going to do well without the context provided by its predecessor.
The gulf really isn't that wide.
I mean, yes, but also, it's not true to say that Xenosaga didn't have a second release.
And actually, people are taking away the achievement of what Blade 2 did. You can simultaneously think that the series has been hampered a lot but its release schedule and that Blade 2 did very well. That's not what some posters seem to be implying, and it's a bit frustrating to see, because the game did well on its own merits.
Okay, but that's not what you said.
And eventually, it probably won't matter that XG and XS1 and 3 weren't released in Europe because XB2 will probably still sell better than those three games plus a hypothetical PAL release.
I've seen them both on public disords and those that are locked behind invites.
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