Do you even know what you're talking about? Seems like you're just making stuff up to fit your argument. How would Sony even know how much it would sell? I mean if you just look at Persona, we're talking potentially a million copies sold for a port worldwide. That's a huge sum of money. Enough to fund an exclusive game with.
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Usually, that'd be great news for sales, some extra weeks of holidays. But, yeah... : |
To be fair, there was a mainline release between the two, and it even more properly fit in with the mainline series than 3. But as I posted above, there was a 15 year period between if... and Strange Journey.
Mainline but not numbered. I sort of put things like if..., Devil Summoner or Strange Journey in a different category.
Mat is expecting software to benefit from it, especially hang-out games which would be a place to interact with friends/family.
I'm not sure if that's a worthwhile distinction to make, moreso at the the of the release of those games, and especially not sales wise. From FC through SFC and onto Saturn, the series didn't have any convention of "numbered titles" in the Final Fantasy sense, a number simply meant a sequel in the same setting. III introduced the idea of general numbering, but considering the decline in sales from the Saturn entries, there's no reason that the lack of a number in the title would separate it from previous mainline releases, especially it was more in line with them (in both naming and thematically) than III was (although there were reasons to expect lower sales for SJ).
If there is no deal between Sony and Atlus for Persona Nagoshi can't do many things, he doesn't have so big power over Atlus. It might take time but it will eventually happen, Switch can't be ignored eternally for no apparent reasons.
Seeing how against any logical thinking Nagoshi is gaining influence at Sega instead of losing it, you never know
In Japan yes. Atlus said that Nocturne didn't meet expectations though.
Eff after the game awards Q1 was shaping to be really compelling
Games, oh yea I play those occasionally ;)
I presume Sony and whoever they are doing a deal with would conduct market research and they'd agree on an estimate. I dunno what Sony pays or benefits they offer but many many publishers/devs have been happy to do business with them. Sony have been very successful in this regard this generation. Kudos to them.
I see. Did they lower their expecations with IV in that case if that was seen as a success? Or what did it do worldwide?
I think Nocturne did decent in the west, but I'm not too sure. That's before my time following this stuff lol.
They overshipped the game in the US past the first soundtrack included print run
I did a quick search, and it seems that they expected 350k in Japan, is that what you're referring to as being disappointing sales? That was before the game released in the west. I wonder why they expected less for IV in that case, but maybe they saw that 350k was too much to expect. But 600k WW seems like a good result :)
I see, but didnt it take some time to get to that price point? I've seen some other Atlus games get bigger price cuts as well. SMT IV was $20 on Amazon.com for a while (at least according to this price history (select Amazon from the check box to the right). I actually bought a brand new and sealed copy of Digital Devil Saga for PS2 some months ago for about €15 :) I'm guessing thats NOS (new old stock), since i bought it from a retailer. I was surprised to see it for sale.
It would help if they decided to change the roster that has been the same since 2009 (that's 5 of 6 games), like seriously why they have so many characters that can only be used in one event
these console wars and have nothing on the ZX/CPC/C64 and the ST/Amiga wars
You would have been continually wrong if the Coronavirus hadn't limited stock.
This really just encapsulates everything you were in VGChartz.
Market research? But you made that suggestion based on the first week sales of the first game Atlus released on Switch. Maybe... just maybe... could it be possible that you haven't really thought this things out completely?
Nintendo has near 60% market share and near 80% combined with Pokemon company, crazySwitch Publisher Rankings: Famitsu Week 8, 2020
*Digital sales not included
the fact that u think ps4s success with third parties is due to sonys "hard work" rather than a lack of competition and japanese devs incompetence is quite laughable
redundant data lol. this week alone top 10 positions aren't the same between the 2 trackers.
