These last Financial Q&As have been destroying my Aostia complexity
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Media Create Sales: Week 43, 2017 (Oct 23 - Oct 29)
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These last Financial Q&As have been destroying my Aostia complexity
Thank you very much!
I think it usually drops at 9 EST.
edit: or 8 I guess now thanks to DST
They are hinting at more Switch exclusives, timed or not, like Octopath. We can also expect a comeback of the Final Fantasy franchise in a big way. FF6 remake would be a perfect fit.
Cheers, interested to see if the switch drop will be big.
24 minutes of pure patience will produce a new Media Create report!
Are we talking about a remake the same as FFVII? I don't see why they would make that a switch exclusive.
Ha!
Doubt they will do another project as massive as FFVII:R for just a remake, so maybe they can remake FFVI in the Octopath Traveler style? In that case, it could be Switch exclusive because the Octopath Traveler is going to work on it, and they have been Nintendo exclusive for a while. All of it is pure speculation at this point, though.
No way haha. I think one project like FF7 is enough for them to handle. I was more thinking of a remake in the Octopath art style.
It was an old rumour. I personally don't believe it, at least for the exclusivity part. But it could be a timed one, FF6 is part of Nintendo hardware history in a sense. And of course it wouldn't be as ambitious as the FF7 remake.
Yeah, I can see a remake with the caliber of Octopath being an exclusive, though personally I would love it to be treated like FFVII and release it on everything.
Well my impression that publishers largely wrote the platform off looks like it was correct. The big difference is that Switch is selling much than I(and they) expected and software is also smashing expectations, even when they are relatively poor value propositions. I thought they would struggle and third parties would drop it straight away like the Wii U.
I still think there's a real risk that by the time publishers get around to providing stronger software the interest will have diminished, like the Wii.
I do think Disgaea 5 was an important release though. Anihawk has mentioned that it sent a ripple through the smaller Sony-focused publishers. If it would have underperformed in the west as it did in the Japan that would have been the end of that. It needs to be reinforced with other success stories as there is still obviously quite a lot of reluctance from some publishers.
I'm actually interested in how Nights of Azure 2 has performed worldwide.
treated as FF7R, as "lost in development hell for years"? ;)
And as of today, FF7R isn't slated for switch, but it fits well with what they said during their meeting, so it could be a possibility
And it's also on UE4, so that should lower the barrier to port.
Nah, they should keep nomura away and it should be good, a high budget remake would be nice but it's just a dream.
As for VII remake, I think it will come to switch after sony's exclusivity ends.
the Wii was a totally different situation. It required way more efforts to port anything. And the essence of the platform itself, the motion controls, had quite lost mainstream interest 2 or 3 years after the release and it had already pushed away the "hardkore gamerz".
Switch feels more healthy middle and long term wise IMO.
I really don't get these comparisons to the Wii. Yes the Switch is selling similar numbers but the demographic for the Switch is much more open to support all these different types of games versus the Wii and it's more casual audience. I don't think Disgaea 5 would even pull some of the total a Switch version did on Wii.
Media Create:
Switch 64,387
PS4 21,830
New3DS LL 11,116
New2DS LL 7,914
PS4 Pro 6,993
Vita 3,576
2DS 1,539
New3DS 287
Xbox One 114
PS3 56
Wii U 38
CoD: 168k
SMO: 116k
Girls Mode: 32k
hack: 61k
http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20171108074/
Switch 64,387
PS4 21,830
New3DS LL 11,116
New2DS LL 7,914
PS4 Pro 6,993
Vita 3,576
2DS 1,539
New3DS 287
Xbox One 114
PS3 56
Wii U 38
CoD: 168k
SMO: 116k
Girls Mode: 32k
hack: 61k
http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20171108074/
Disappointing Switch hardware numbers. CoD did really well, and Splatoon 2 legging along at 25k.
Matrix, Silicon Studio, Acquire, Arte Piazza, CyGames, h.a.n.d., Grezzo, Tose, take your pick. There's a lot of directions a FFVI remake could go and a wealth of developers to do it.
Oh, gotcha. Many thanks to you both for the clarification. Well, any reason they wouldn't be assisting on Metroid Prime 4? (Or a SSB4 port.)
Edit: just saw the original sequence of posts, so not SSB4 after all.
The Wii and Switch and WiiU are different.
Switch is selling like a portable.
Core software is what's driving Switch. Botw, oddessy, splatoon.
Third party and first party titles are selling well.
Switch is the most powerful portable on the market.
While underpowered compared to other systems, it has relatively modern hardware that can work with modern engines
Wii was driven largely by casual games and wiiu was so toxic that everything was generally underperforming.
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