/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9704171
>>9704201
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I think in general Japan didn't care quite AS much about al kinds of action games as they did about other genres—JRPG, first and foremost, but also fighters, racing, and all kinds of weirdo genres they like. Neither they cared about Star Wars or WWE.
The PS1 top games (picrel) draw a pretty obvious picture. The top 4 is FF7-9 and DQ7. these alone would sell any console in Japan.
Crash games sold OK, but not great. No Spyro there either. maybe Japan simply didn't care about platformers as much as US did.
I think the biggest mistake people make is overestimate how much people ACTUALLY cared about Mario / Zelda. it never was quite as big as they think, both in US and Japan. just not enough to sell a whole platform.

>>9581380
>I'm seeing a lot of healthy sales there.
"Healthy"—maybe, "for a system that only had an install base of about 6 Million"—maybe. But then you look at PS, and Saturn pales in comparison.
Also, note that power gap between VF2, the launch titles and the rest of games. As well as the unhealthy amount of VNs and anime games on the list.