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Edge's big feature on Nagoshi's career: Monkey Ball, F-Zero GX > 1.5M WW, Yakuza origins and future
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You know it's him when the title smells really console war click baity lol
I didnt even know a WiiU version existed until a couple of months ago. Japan only.
I thought this was about the companies becoming affiliated with the real life yakuza. I need to go to bed.
Not sure why Microsoft would reject it considering they let anything come to their consoles. Nintendo however, is very weird sometimes so I can understand them.
If I'm not mistaken, of all the big 3 publishers, Sony is the only one who accept Yakuza game.
The concept, the ideas, the story, the game-play, etc.
So that's why with all the Yakuza games on PS until now.
We need a monkey ball creator. Community made tracks. That shit would blow my mind.
We know the sales numbers for GX he provides are either flat out wrong or skew so heavily to cheaper sales that the game still underperformed for Nintendo.
I completely agree that Nintendo still should make another one, but it must be produced cheaper and probably by an outside team since the market is probably still less than 1million people at a price of $40.
I completely agree that Nintendo still should make another one, but it must be produced cheaper and probably by an outside team since the market is probably still less than 1million people at a price of $40.
We need a new Monkey Ball, or a remaster of the first two please. Also: F-Zero SX or just a HD remaster.
When Japanese devs talk like that is not just publishing the title, but funding it.
This is all news to me. Guess I should've blamed Sega less for this seemingly weird ex-exclusivity.
Not everything is happiness and rainbows, there was a time when the Yakuza brand was all but dead in the West. Luckily people eventually saw the light, because the games themselves have always been great. Even Dead Souls, yes.
I thought so but wasn't Microsoft investing a lot in Sega's games back then?
Yup. History is repeating itself yet again. I'm glad more games are coming to PC though
To me, this shows that demand isn't being met on just the Sony platforms, which makes sense, because not all gamers only game on Sony platforms. I am interested in Yakuza 0, and I'll probably grab it eventually on Steam, but I'd buy it much faster if I could take the game on the go with me, I just have no interest in spending $500+ on a GPD Win 2.
As for the new systems comment, I wonder if he means a more radical change in mechanics presentation to attract and interest new players without intimidating them.
I hope it comes to everyone, it's such a great series, with some of the absolute best characters ever.
Though they are in kind of a bad spot, as the Yakuza games are very much not something you can just blast through back-back without major burn out and there's really no other way to catch those two platforms up without offering a collection at some point.
Though they are in kind of a bad spot, as the Yakuza games are very much not something you can just blast through back-back without major burn out and there's really no other way to catch those two platforms up without offering a collection at some point.
The fact they're even talking about this now kinda seems like talks are going on so hopefully, the next major game in the franchise should be coming to every platform.
It's such an addictive game (Yakuza 0), pretty much all I have been playing the last two weeks. The side activities and substories are so good. I'm just mad I'm not better at some of them, will probably have to skip the dancing related substories. No chance I can score higher than 2000 on any of them. lol
I really hope this gets a larger audience, and they keep making them forever.
I really hope this gets a larger audience, and they keep making them forever.
It'd be great if players on every platform could have the chance to play the Yakuza series. It's amazing that it's on PC these days and I hope it drops on even more platforms.
they know whatever they come up with is going to be inferior to gx
Seriously, every time it's been brought up on the forums in the past people say with near absolute certainty that it was a major failure. This article says not only that it sold well, but also that it really impressed Nintendo.
Dammit. I want a new one
You're ignoring the fact that Nagoshi had to actually fight Sony as well over Yakuza. The Yakuza series was an uphill battle to be made and he had to fight ethics regulations to get it made.
It's more the series is declining in Japan and blowing up elsewhere, especially after 0 and with growth comes more platforms.
Jesus, look at this corporate flag, fanboy bullshit here. I've purchased every Yakuza game to date that has been released in the west, so you may say I'm a fan, but I'd just buy them all again if they were rereleased on Xbox One X or PC. PC, fortunately, seems like it's going to happen, but why in the hell wouldn't you want it on as many platforms as possible? Just childish console war nonsense.
PS4 is a very successful console 'else where', heck it's decline in japan could actually be partly due to PS4 selling poorly there. It regularly sells less than 20k units, finding it's way to more markets is key to the long term success of the series IMO, especially with a new console generation looming and PS5 not being a guaranteed success in Japan.
I know the PS4 is, probably why the series is blowing up elsewhere and I think is bigger than ever, despite declining/stagnating in Japan, which would have been a death sentence for the series a few games ago.
I assume a big reason it's now on and more are coming to PC is because of the growing popularity in other parts of Asia, where PC is a lot more dominant for example.
I doubt there's much growth to be had with Switch (new engine games, Yakuza 6 onward, won't run on it) or Xbox, but I also doubt there's any damage to be caused at all either, so more Yakuza for everyone please.
The first game had no addtional funding from Sony, it was all Sega, a gamble from Nagoshi on a tight budget which is why the first game doesn't have as much as content as its sequels. It paid off though. The video posted above goes into detail on it.
Nintendo only lists million sellers on their chart. And only then when they achieve those 1 million within the same fiscal year they were released in. That's why stuff like Fire Emblem Awakening or the Wii U version of DKC Tropical Freeze never appeared on there despite them being known to sell above a million. The slow rollout (July for JP, August for NA, October for EU) probably contributed to the game not moving that million units until the end of the FY in March.
SEGA didn't publish this so there's no reason to attribute the sales to them.
I'm actually really shocked at the F-Zero sales. I always thought it was a sales disaster. Are we 100% sure this is what he said? No mis-translation or something? Is Nagoshi himself sure of the 1.5 million?
Either way, 1.5 is deserved for such an awesome game. Now someone needs to convince Miyamoto they should just make a sequel with added online. I don't care if it's a 1 on 1 copy with only online being new.
The Yakuza bit is kinda expected. Nogashi needed to do a lot to convince people around him to go ahead with the series, even his own bosses. I could understand Nintendo not wanting this back then, but I'd expected it to be on Xbox at least. I just hope they change it now and release everything on all platforms.
And give me Super Monkey Ball Sega. Now.
Either way, 1.5 is deserved for such an awesome game. Now someone needs to convince Miyamoto they should just make a sequel with added online. I don't care if it's a 1 on 1 copy with only online being new.
The Yakuza bit is kinda expected. Nogashi needed to do a lot to convince people around him to go ahead with the series, even his own bosses. I could understand Nintendo not wanting this back then, but I'd expected it to be on Xbox at least. I just hope they change it now and release everything on all platforms.
And give me Super Monkey Ball Sega. Now.