If that's Sega's company wide approach (which seems to be the case), then Atlus won't have much say in the matter I imagine.
Johnny & Associates: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fuck you.
still on hopium it comes one day. The fact it's on Luna now gives my a ton of hope
It makes sense. Sega hasn't really meddled to much with Atlus.Sega wants Atlus games to release ‘on multiple platforms’ going forward
Fingers crossed the next Persona comes to PC.www.pcgamer.com
It kind of seems like Atlus is a bit disconnected from Sega. I've heard some people mention that Atlus with Sega is kind of Mojang with Microsoft, where they are pretty independent.
I think when it comes to development side of things, Atlus acts pretty independently but marketing and publishing wise, they seem to be a lot more involved with Sega. For instance Atlus helps with most if not all of the RGG studio games marketing and publishing duties as well as help them (and other Sega games) with localization.Sega wants Atlus games to release ‘on multiple platforms’ going forward
Fingers crossed the next Persona comes to PC.
It kind of seems like Atlus is a bit disconnected from Sega. I've heard some people mention that Atlus with Sega is kind of Mojang with Microsoft, where they are pretty independent.
Yeah I definitely think Sega is influencing some decisions at Atlus. I just don't think Sega has really forced them to do anything like they could with RGG and Yakuza.
Lol I gave up on that one and got the PS4 version on sale recently. Though maybe a PC port will somehow happen before I get to it.
In the context of these games being old releases especially the latter yakuzas, I think the sales aren't that bad at least. Yakuza 0, Kiwami 1 and 2 were released after a year of each release on PC while the others took their sweet time in coming to PC, after 2 years of Kiwami 2's release on the platform.
7 was half price like a week after release.
Idk, "quite strong" sounds like they're more than happy with it.
As of 2020, Yakuza sold 14 million copies across all platforms it was available then. By 2018, it was 11 million.
The series has gone from ~7 million copies in June 2015 to over 17 million by March 2021 (though iirc, they included pachislot and other ancillary products in those numbers?), so they're decently chunky.
If it sold 2.8M copies since 2019 in PC and it sold only 3M copies from 2018-2020 (14M - 11M) in all platforms, most of the copies sold in 2019-2021 were on PC.
Series barely does 1mil per entry (and that was only in the PS2 glory days, and then more recently once the series started getting localised well). To get 3mil extra PC sales (though who knows how much each person paid for each of those) is far from bad. Its a nice extra avenue for the series to blossom, much like getting the games on Gamepass for Xbox users to give them a shot.
Johnny's is probably (besides the known reasons for not going to PC) also not down with the inevitable Kimutaku nude mods. haha
That's really good numbers then for PC. It's going to pay off long term for Sega as long as they keep doing day one releases.
There is no chance for that one I think unfortunately so PS4 version is going to be it (licensing I suspect).
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This is why I am not a huge fan of using big name actors or people in games. Stuff like this can make licensing nightmares long term. It's better to just make original characters.
There are loads of name actors in every Yakuza game. Just in Like a Dragon, Sawashiro was the great Shinichi Tsutsumi:
Oh wow TIL. I assumed Yakuza 0 was the only one that used real actors for characters. So I was wrong and it's a non issue then. When I think about it, I actually can't think of any games that got pulled or couldn't get rereleased due to an actor saying no. It's usually due to musicThere are loads of name actors in every Yakuza game. Just in Like a Dragon, Sawashiro was the great Shinichi Tsutsumi:
The situation with Kimura is just an anomaly.
i can see where you are coming from but to put things into perpective, from what i read Valkyrie chronicles was ported by 4 people.
