Xbox360 RPG titles that aren’t available YET on the PS3 (some may become available at some point or another, but as of today these have no PS3 counter-part):
Mass Effect (91 meta score)
Lost Odyssey (78 meta score)
Eternal Sonata (79 meta score)
Tales of Vesperia (80 meta score)
Infinite Undiscovery (71 meta score)
Blue Dragon (79 meta score)
Sony on the other hand only has the following to it’s exclusive credit:
Disgaea 3 (78 meta score)
Folklore (75 meta score)
Keep in mind that these are just the ones that I felt were significant. The original Playstation when first released by Sony also surprised many of its competitors by taking a hold of the RPG market, a market that the other companies such as Nintendo and Sega, weren’t too interested in.
With that thought in mind, and the high production quality of many of these RPG’s, one has to begin to wonder, is it perhaps the RPG genre that will allow Microsoft to maintain it’s position over the PS3 in overall sales? I believe so. If Sony doesn’t do something quick and regain some lost RPG ground, they can be looking at some problems with their Japanese hardware/software sales figures.
If the recent release of Tales of Vasperia is any indication, RPG fans are abundant and hungry for some good RPG’s. Japanese fans lined up hours before stores opened (for the first time for an xbox360 game) in Japan for Tales of Vasperia. The market for RPG’s in Japan is undeniable. The success of a game follows to our shores here as well in the U.S., where many anime/manga/video-game/japanese culture fans and other gamers enthusiastically wait for an RPG to be released.
Disgaea 3 has been released in Japan for the PS3 for quite some time now. However, it just reached the U.S. one week ago.
With all of these indicators floating around and as a true RPG fan, I think as of today it is fair to say that Microsoft Xbox360 is far ahead of Sony’s Playstation 3 in the RPG realm.
Posted by abadar100 