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It is hard to say what Symphonia would have done releasing on PS2 exclusively instead, where it would have had competition and it would not have been promoted as much.A big part of why Symphonia succeeded was because it was on a genre starved console and got an ENORMOUS Nintendo push. People that normally would never have played it even with a PS2 did so because it was on the GameCube.

Vesperia, on the other hand, was on a console not known for Japanese games period, much less RPGs, and was also in the middle of Microsoft artificially pumping that console with jRPGs in general.

Would have loved to see Symphonia followed up by Abyss on the Gamecube with the same marketing push, though, since that's such a better game.