I know. That's Square Enix's fault.
They're overreliant on Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest like how Sega is with Sonic.
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I know. That's Square Enix's fault.
They're overreliant on Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest like how Sega is with Sonic.
Yesh that is a bit sad. I knew the PS3 was lacking in million sellers but I always assumed the PSP was over flowing with them for some reason.
I don't really know if I'd say there is any potential for more PS4 million sellers other than FF7 remake. And I'm not sure where the dice will fall on that one till we see what ore orders look like
Last Alive turns a SRPG series into a shooter and you tell me it's not western focus? I'm not sure about Octopath. My impression is that pixel art is a bigger deal in the west than in Japan. Code Vein is Bamco's Dark Souls, guess where all the Dark Souls fans are.
that hasn't been true for a long time now. the last "successful" sonic game was Generations. since, their financials have been doing better and Sonic has been doing worse
This is true, but I'd say at least SE think they are focusing on the west.
To be fair, nobody thought that taking a dead franchise like Nier and putting a developer known for making underperforming games was a good idea, but look how that turned out.
When they first revealed the game it looked like they were trying to fill the MGSV void, but from what i've seen from the game that's not what they're going for. It does have bomba written all over it though, we'll see.
It's so painfully obvious how badly this is gonna flop worldwide, it's like watching an aeroplane losing all engines in the middle of an ocean in slow motion. You would think after Front Mission Evolved they would have taken their lesson, but it's Senix we are talking about here.
A game that has mechs and is less than two weeks away from release with hardly any advertising for the West but had plenty of official Japanese Square Enix livestreams is Western focused?
You remember how Western focused MHW was right? There is nothing even resembling a Western focus with Left Alive.
This is ironic considering that you had the majority of era complaining they wouldn't pay full price for a 2D game.
If pixel art was a bigger deal, then the biggest selling Final Fantasy games wouldn't be the ones made in 3D.
It's Anime Souls, and Dark Souls is also popular in Japan. You think that to reach the widest audience in the West would be to make the game look like some edgy anime in artstyle? When Dark Souls and even Bloodborne looks nothing like that?
Left Alive is basically them trying to get some money from MGS fans. I mean, it even has Shinkawa art. If anything, it's weird how this game was barely promoted in the west considering my first impression of it was that they wanted to appeal to the "I want japanese games on my next gen system" crowd.
My theory is that Square Enix is targeting the type of gamers who follow games closely online and don't need to spend a bunch of marketing dollars to reach, which would explain the lack of marketing for games like DQXI and Left Behind.
Even the Metal Gear Solid fans don't know this game exists.
You think live stream is promotion? It's literally free. My guess is the game went through some internal testing and people at marketing department simply decided it's not worth marketing.
Octopath is never meant to be FF, aka appealing to casual gamer. It's target is hardcore JRPG fan, and only in the west do JRPG fans crave for pixel art.
Anime Souls is still Souls, the game's design and promotion clearly show that it aims for the Souls fanbase. The team behind tje game has always been working on anime style, it also suits the low quality asset better. Hell I'd say most people who buy Bamco anime games are from the west anyway.
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So, you're saying they focused on the west because a niche fanbase craves pixel fan art when those same hardcore people you would find here on ERA complain how the game is full price.
Brilliant strategy of maximising sales.
Anyway, I'll stop wasting my time with anecdotes here. Even the staff who made the game said it wasn't made with western gamers in mind.
So it still has no western focus.
Only the most popular anime sells better in the west than in Japan. You're not going to see the Girls und Panzer game from Bandai Namco sell better in the west if they ever localise it.
That's why all the anime games that Bandai Namco release in the west are from Shonen stuff like Dragon Ball, Naruto and One Piece. Stuff that became popular from the anime/manga first in the west.
That same reasoning doesn't apply to something like Code Vein. There's been Souls clones already and they sold like crap because the fanbase only follows what From Software makes.
atm it's only Astral Chain. So yeah, not much. They used to release much more, but there's still time to announce more things I guess.
For now I would say Tetris 99 and Astral Chains.
I give you that Tetris 99 might be a reach tho. Town is a special case too.
Astral Chain? Is that a Nintendo or Platinum ip?
Kinda gray area there....
It's february, but so far just Astral Chain and maybe DxM?
who owns Daemon X Machina?
I know Nintendo is publishing. But Marvelous owns the IP or no?
Nintendo publishes and pays for the game, PG develops it and they share the ownership of the IP I believe.
Until we are sure about it, I'll reserve myself the right to believe that Platinum owns it.
It won't be at 100%. We had previous examples like The Wonderful 101.
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https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/10116
Not to dog pile. I'd say Astral chain and Town are the two most obvious. I'd say Daemon X Machina would not exist or at least not be anywhere close to its current state; if it werent for Nintendo. There may be a surprise or two still left for a new ip pr project.
While not wholly new, Super Mario Maker released its first entry in 2015. The series is still really new and I think they will bring a lot of exciting new features to the game. I expect the game to evolve like SSB64 did with Melee and Splatoon did with Splatoon 2.
astral chain is a Nintendo ip, just like Bloodborne is a Sony one
wonderful 101 is 101% nintendo though
wonderful 101 is 101% nintendo though
No way! We have February already, no more announcements this year, obviously.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Literally no, actually.
The demographic were the friends we left alive on the way.
Nintendo always shares IP with creators. Kirby is Nintendo/HAL, Fire Emblem is Nintendo/Intelligent Systems, Pokemon is Nintendo/Game Freak/Creatures, Wonderful 101 and Astral Chain are Nintendo/PlatinumGames etc
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Yeah, now that remembered, Town is not likely to be a 209 title.
The game completely disapeared from everywhere.
The game completely disapeared from everywhere.
It's a small scale eShop only title.
Probably shadow dropped around e3?
It could always be delayed.
But with that logic, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Animal Crossing won't likely be 2019 either since they haven't been mentioned since Town was announced.
That's not how Nintendo directs work
Unless you're also saying Luigi's Mansion and Animal Crossing are also 2020 games :p
So yeah, propably not delayed. But I just hope it don't get crushed in the craziness that will be the second half.
I wouldn't mind a delay.
I wouldn't mind a delay.
Code Vein is what you get when you try to clone something without understanding a single thing about what made the original thing popular