US Sales data:>SNES300k>PS1500k>Nintendo DS250k>Mobile200kI always assumed Chrono Trigger sold millions but apparently nobody fucking bought this game. Which is weird because online it has such a huge following and regularly hits the Top 3 of JRPG lists etc. So...are people lying about having played it? Are there tons of people on the internet sucking off Trigger who never even touched it? I know emulation is a factor but even so, people are gonna generally pirate the games that sold really well too.
>>12759703half a million copies sold on PS1 alone sounds like a decent amount to me
>>12759703>I always assumed Chrono Trigger sold millionsIt did, in Japan.>but apparently nobody fucking bought this gameThose were solid sales for the genre in the West back then in pre-FFVII days.>Which is weird because online it has such a huge followingSuper Metroid and Earthbound are other online sensations with relatively modest sales. Ever learned what a cult video-game is?>So...are people lying about having played it?So you're a zoomer making another bad faith thread to avoid having to play video games in order to discuss them.
>>12759706>It did, in Japan.The SNES version sold 2 million, all other versions in Japan failed to break a million.>Those were solid sales for the genre in the West back then in pre-FFVII days.The DS and Mobile ports were long after that though, and had huge install bases, so it's weird they sold next to nothing.>Super Metroid and Earthbound are other online sensations with relatively modest salesAnd Earthbound especially is well known for being a game people talk a lot about but haven't played.I've played Chrono Trigger to completion twice, I'm just curious about whether it's a case like Earthbound, where secondaries claim to love it but haven't touched it.
>>12759703>Are there tons of people on the internet sucking off Trigger who never even touched it?Yep
>>12759704It's not a flop, but it doesn't line up with the level of universal acclaim the game recieves online.
>Video games bad and no one ever has played them, it's literally impossible to play video gmaes
>>12759704why niggercattle always supports the worst versions of products? It's like with remakes today
>As of June 2026, Bieber has sold an estimated 150 million records Wow his music must be awesome based on these sales records!
>>12759726>>12759737Point to where I said Chrono Trigger was bad. Point to where I said low sales = bad game.READ what other people write instead of arguing against the fictional person in your head that you shadowbox in the shower. I'm asking if a huge amount of so-called CT fans on the internet are in fact lying about having played it. There's no deeper meaning to this thread beyond that you mentally ill, deranged psychos.
>>12759751No.
>sales above a million in a region means no one ever has played this game, NO ONE, I am a mathematical genius!
I'm playing CT for the first time recently, such a good game. I'm at the part where you get the Chrono Trigger and need to win this doll at the fair
>>12759723People can emulate it, yknow
>>12759726notice how the zoomer is white and you aren't?
>>12759774You didn't even read the OP, you just skimmed. Fuck off.
>>12759779Well even if you mentioned it, that is the answer to your own retarded and pointless question, sorry you don't like that answer.
>DON'T ANONS KNOW THAT PER EVERY 500K BUYERS ONLY 1 PERSON PLAYS IT ACCORDING TO MY ADVANCED STATISTICAL MODEL? STOP MOCKING MY THREAD!
>>12759703Sales alone don't give you the full story. It was highly regarded and successful among RPG fans from the start, but also more people played it than sales alone suggest, even without emulation. Used game sales and rentals were huge back then, along with just sharing among friends/family, and CT got very good word of mouth. It's also safe to say that many more people played it after Final Fantasy VII came out and made Square huge. People were seeking out and playing anything notable Square put out, new or old. But yeah, I don't think anybody is trying to say Chrono Trigger was a Donkey Kong Country/Street Fighter 2/Pokemon level megahit in terms of sales. It was a success for the genre, but not on that level. Always more of classic among RPG players than something every gamer played. But I see no reason to assume people saying they like the game haven't played it, especially not based on sales numbers. It's been one of the top recommended JRPGs since the 90s.
>>12759784>>12759785Two types of anons. Same message, different approach.
>>12759703Everyone emulated it on Zsnes back in the day.
It also had the Toriyama appeal, lots of people into Dragon Ball Z got interested in Chrono Trigger. DBZ was getting big in America in the late 90s.
I've beaten the game twice. I've never paid for it>butYou lost and got raped.
>>12759703No one cares about the US, faggot.>As of March 2025, all versions together have shipped more than 5 million copies worldwide.[153]
>>12759703I think you're really underestimating how big of numbers these are. You probably haven't even seen 10k unique posts from different people online talking about Chrono Trigger, let alone 200k.
>>12759703Millions more emulated it for free, which the numbers can never and will never reflect.
this retarded posted this thread on /v/ for (You)'s btw, don't reply.
>>12759820Yeah. It doesn't take a ton of people to leave a big cultural footprint either. If only 30k people play a game, but all of them think it's amazing and talk it up online, it's more likely to be remembered than some shovelware that sold millions because it was sold in the bargain bin at OfficeMax for years.
FFVI sold even less than CT and is just as discussed and fondly remembered, while FF7 Rebirth and other remake sloppas that have sold literally millions are barely discussed anywhere. Fuck off OP you dumb faggot, hang yourself.
>>12759703There's nothing strange about a game that didn't sell explosively well being on "Best of" lists.The people who make lists like that buy and play lots of JRPGs, not just the absolutely most popular ones.Look at this list, it's the highest rated SNES RPGs on GameFAQs.Plenty of these never released in America, or are wildly obscure in general.
>>12759841>OP having a meltyback to >>>/v/, tranny
>>12759848>MeltyWhy are you using homosexual slang?
>>12759703Rushing polls to convince everyone their games are the best is a trademark SNESfag move, just look at Earthbound.
>>12759858>Rushing polls to convince everyone their games are the best is a trademark SNESfag move, just look at Earthbound.That's the entire gamefaqs meta. They only allow a certain cabal of fanboys and if any other game outside of it organically catches traction they form a coalition of kvetch and call it a "brigade"
>>12759703I've been playing snes emulated games since 1998, did it not occur to you that people were playing the relatively rare game pirated?
>>12759917Did it not occur to you to READ THE FUCKING OP IN FULL before opening your dumb cunt mouth, you stupid prick.
>>12759843OP can't rotate an apple in his fat empty head, he's not gonna be able to pick up what you're putting down here.
The game sold 5 million worldwide, retarded fag.
>>12759703>I always assumed Chrono Trigger sold millions but apparently nobody fucking bought this game.What is emulation and roms? babby's first time on the internet?
>>12759941>Another dunce who can't read before running his mouthStop skimming and REEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAD the OP before you reply.
>>12759958The OP's point is bad even if he pays lip service to it being available to emulation, it invalidates his entire argument.
>>12759795Same with Earthbound and the early Fire Emblem games. No one actually bought it when it came out
>>12759971I remember in high school in the mid 2000s when my friends discovered Earthbound. Both it and Fire Emblem grew in popularity after Smash Bros.
>>12759975I tried to play earthbound a few times after smash hit but I always bounced off it, it took the wii u release for me to actually get into it, so I guess I didn't pirate that one, great game.
>>12759719>DS and MobileNo shit retard, ports of old games generally did not sell as well as current releases. The only anomaly in your data, the high PS1 sales, is explained by anons point about the pre- vs post- FF7 west. After FF7 (and Pokemon), the western JRPG audience expanded substantially. The same time perior was also when Dragon Ball Z got popular in the US, and Toriyama's art style became more recognizable. (Crono Trigger's snes release predates DBZ's popularity in the US).
>>12759854why are you projecting?
auster thread, clean it up jannies
>>12759723Because the people who play it, enjoy it, and find a lot to praise and very little to criticize. The few vehement critics always expose themselves as troglodytes not worth giving the time of day. Even most people who call it babbys first jrpg admit that it's really good at being babbys first jrpg.
>>12759723Why do you believe that sales equate to quality? There are plenty of garbage games with huge sales numbers, Chrono Trigger was a late snes game in a genre that was not popular and that also cost a small fortune to get in the west, it was never going to be a big seller.
>>12759703>US Sales data:>SNES>300kpost the US sales data for every SNES game if you are trying to make a point.
>>12759998>P wordI win. GG no re. I accept your surrender.
>>12760045>Why do you believe that sales equate to quality?Why can't you read?I said it gets praised online so much and for so many decades YOU WOULD LOGICALLY THINK it had sold tens of millions of copies, because GENERALLY you don't see games with smaller playerbases being talked about THIS MUCH. Jesus christ, have to walk you through it like you're a toddler.
>>12759703jrpgs in general are absurdly overrepresented in online discourse
>>12760125>i win!! i win!!!!fucking hell this is a really bad melty, imagine being this much of a manchild lmao
okay, now add in emulation playthroughs
>>12759703I don't remember ever seeing it in stores to begin with. And I was aware of it becuase I liked FF II and III and read about it in gaming magazines so I would have bought a copy but it was like some rare commodity. I only ever saw used versions going for extortionistic prices and as curiius as I was I wasn't going to pay $100+ for a used cart in 1998.If you ask me square was doing that "we want to sell this to a western audience but aren't sure the audience is there" shtick so they did a somewhat conservative production run and once it sold out they didn't make more under the assumption that everyone who wanted it already bought it. Because otherwise it makes no sense. Secondhand SNES carts were dirt fucking cheap in the late 90's (what a time to be alive) and there were copies of everything to be had, including square's other RPGs. But not Chrono trigger. Every available copy was hoovered up immediately and if you wanted a used one it went for way above its initial retail price. The demand completely exceeded the supply, so if sales were low that was square's own fault for misreading the market.
>>12759703Early online gaming culture was an echo chamber.
>>12759941>>12759964>muh emulation The music is half the reason to like this game and it was fucking dog shit on ZSNES.
>>12759703Is there a timeline of when those PS1 copies were sold?Final Fantasy Chronicles was one of the games that Square kept selling on their web store until the early 2010's. Chrono Cross was also sold there and it's known to have sold extremely well as it's by far the most common silver-bottom PS1 disc.
>>12759727CT came out at the very end of the SNES life when PSX was already out in Japan, so i wouldn't be surprised if most people experienced it for the first time on PSX
>>12760543I dont believe CT was ever sold as a single stand alone playstation disc in north america, only as the bundle with FFIV.Japan had a stand-alone CT playstation release which is what is what western emualtor users are most familiar with (the cover art for their game laucnher, even though they are running the chronicles version).
>>12759703I didn't play Chrono Trigger until it came out for DS and I have to say it's definitely in the top 10 SNES games. I was kind of disappointed it wasn't included on the SNES Classic. My dad and I waited in line all night to get two copies of the NES and SNES classics.
>>12759703>Which is weird because online it has such a huge followingwhy?video game players, even console ones, would have been disproportionately early adopters to the internet before high-speed was widely in homes.
>>12759706>other online sensations with relatively modest sales.Castlevania is the poster child for this, only the first game actually sold well, every other title sold worse including the beloved SotN.I think only the 360 games sold better and even then I'm unsure.
Trigger fanboys have a very strange fixation with the game and are very loud and obnoxious. They attribute depth to the characters that simply isn't there, except arguably in Lucca, but only thanks to the sequel, which they hate, because of their weird fixation on the one-dimensional characters and utter lack of reading comprehension.
>never once paid for chrono trigger>have played through it 3 times
>>12761120This is kinda what I was getting at.Chrono Trigger's hardcore defenders don't sound like people who played the game once themselves, they sound like people who watched a youtube video or two about the "deep lore" and regurgitate obscure talking points no one would realy bring up otherwise. I'm not saying Chrono Trigger is a bad game, I played it, I liked it a lot. But there does seem to be a heavy Earthbound-type element at play where a not insignificant percentage of people saw it on youtube or twitch and adopted it as their personality without playing it themselves.
>>12761120>>12761167you're probably right, but this is kind of a common phenomenon with anything that is held in high regard the way Chrono Trigger is. you're always gonna have fans who are kind of posers, and youtubers who play up the whole reaction thing. The few people I know personally pretty much agree that the plot isn't that deep and it's everything else the game does so well that makes it memorable.
>>12761196>The few people I know personallywho have played through the game, i mean
>>12761167>Chrono Trigger's hardcore defenders don't sound like people who played the game once themselves, they sound like people who watched a youtube video or two about the "deep lore" and regurgitate obscure talking points no one would realy bring up otherwiseI've been on the internet since 1997 and have never seen anyone like this. If anything, the general consensus is that the story is fun, with likable, memorable characters and exceptionally good pacing for a videogame, but the lore is shallow and premise kind of nonsense.
>>12761239>I've been on the internet since 1997 and have never seen anyone like this. ILucky you. I personally have seen extesive posts, bordering on headcanon, mostly target at Shala and Lucca that utterly run away with themselves and get lost in the weeds trying to add a level of depth that just isn't there in what amounts to a very by-the-numbers (if albeit the best example of) typical JRPG progression in terms of gameplay, story and general game feel.
>>12761239>I've been on the internet since 1997 and have never seen anyone like thisI've seen it from earthbound way more than chrono trigger. There are probably three new earthbound videos released today praising it despite never playing it, but they bought a copy to display behind themselves while streaming.
>>12761120That's true for every fandom that initiates pre-teens.
>>12759807America is the only country that matters.:^)
>>12761120I can't say I've ever met anyone like this.
>>12761251Where do you see this shit? Does tumblr even exist anymore?
>>12759703I would be willing to bet large sums of money that more people played it than actually paid for itI finished it on an emulator in the early 00s. and I was already being told about it by people who were playing it on an emulator
>>12761321Well it's certainly more relevant for this topic than most countries. Chrono Trigger was only officially released for a long time in Japan and North America, until the DS version.
>>12762496Yeah, this. Even offline, I remember someone at school talking to me about playing it on an emulator. Along with emulation, you've got to remember second-hand sales of the game. I got the game on a real cartridge back in the late 90s, but I never bought it new.
