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NEWS: Japan's Video Game Rankings, May 12-18 [2025-05-24]

Nah it one issue more then the others. NO ONE KNOWS WHO SNK ARE and those that do have memories from 30 years ago or emu memories and now SNK has to fight Capcom with being able to under cut the cost of Capcom's hardware and at the same price.

People don’t know who SNK are and that’s why COTW failed?

Hasn’t Clair Obscur been kicking all sorts of ass the last few weeks despite being from a developer and publisher no one has heard of?

Clair Obscur also has many things going for it such a immense word of mouth and the selling point that it's a JRPG for people who don't like JRPGs. Which also might explain why it's not doing similar gangbusters in Japan since "JRPG if you hate Japan" might not be the best selling point for them. Not knocking the game or anything but a lot of praise for it is basically hating on JRPGs. I've already seeing the complaints about it's poor sales in Japan being because it has an adult cast and doesn't let you date the underage character and other stereotypical thing people like to complain about Japan.

By critical metrics, the last truly great Japanese-developed JRPG was 2016’s Persona 5 (with honorable mention to 2019’s Kingdom Hearts III). Last year’s Metaphor: ReFantazio was an admirable stab at a new story and setting from former Persona devs, but otherwise, the domestic JRPG scene has since become dominated by remasters and remakes. Industry giant Square Enix is preoccupied not only with sticking the landing on the third and final installment of its multipart remake of 1997’s Final Fantasy VII, but it’s also working on a remake of the original Dragon Quest (1986) and Dragon Quest II (1988) — following up a similar reworking of Dragon Quest III (1988) released earlier this year.

This is hardly a problem specific to Square Enix. Over at Nintendo, Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition released in March, remaking the 2015 game of the same name

It’s not that these remasters and re-releases make for objectively bad games, but they do little to move JRPGs as a genre forward. The plucky studios of Japan’s past have since become or been subsumed into giant corporations, whose inexorable profit motive rewards commoditization of nostalgia over creative and financial risks aimed at the future.

You can't compare an RPG to a fighting game.

RPGs are a popular genre that are easy to get into

while fighting games are not popular

and are some of the most daunting and challenging games to get into with steep learning curves

Now, if there was an indie fighting game not attached to any existing IP that sold 3 million copies in a month then that'd be impressive.

Clair Obscur also has many things going for it such a immense word of mouth and the selling point that it's a JRPG for people who don't like JRPGs. Which also might explain why it's not doing similar gangbusters in Japan since "JRPG if you hate Japan" might not be the best selling point for them. Not knocking the game or anything but a lot of praise for it is basically hating on JRPGs.

The best you can hope for is an SNK VS Capcom game doing well because it has Capcom's name on it.

Which is interesting since the director of the game mentions Final Fantasy 8 being one of his favorite games that made him fall in love with the genre. And the game said to take inspiration from other Final Fantasy’s

But they hate JRPG’s?

Didn’t work too well for Marvel vs Capcom Infinite.

Despite its terrible launch, Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite is actually the highest selling Marvel vs. Capcom game now. Capcom's 49th highest selling game overall. Possibly due to there being a lot of bad Marvel movies and comics these days with people wanting something remotely good with those characters.

The people who actually made the game love JRPGS. It's the fans or other people who are using the game as a weapon to attack JRPGs or Japan as a whole.