Except people aren't calling them stupid for making the game multiplatform but rather for mismanaging it and the franchise as a whole. It's not even remotely comparable to ATLUS making some games exclusive to certain platforms for seemingly little reason. Hardly double standards. That and a not insignificant number of people have certainly port begged for games like SMT V to come to PlayStation.
There's definitely a very different vibe to this thread than other ports. Reminds me a lot of those early Monster Hunter World reactions.
Except most aren't exactly upset it's multiplatform but rather how it's been handled. You're trying to make it out to be a console war by bringing up Atlus for some reason
You're welcome :)
Yep. Good Level-5 news today :D A new Dark Cloud would be nice. But I hope it's more like Dark Cloud 1 and less like Dark Cloud 2 :P
yeah there so much projecting from some people, as if they were waiting for something like this to call out people's reactions, and the reaction isn't what they expected but they're doing it anyway. frankly i don't see anyone here giving two shits about this series becoming multi platform at this point, and sales will most likely prove that no one outside here cares either.
Well you can play your PS4 games on PS5. So this won't cause any problems :)
Well the issue might be more so that PS5 games will overshadow a late PS4 port, especially for a franchise in decline. Hell, plenty of PS4 games, like TLoU 2 and FF7R Part 1, will do that as well
Well new games will always overshadow old games. But I think fans of games like Yo-kai Watch aren't necessarily TLOU2 or God of War fans. So Yo-kai Watch 4 being available on PS4 and PS5 is nice. It will make Level-5 some money. The question is "how much".
Oh of course but it's unlikely the game will even get much attention or marketing to help it draw out an audience on the PS4 or the Switch, for that matter. If it comes out late, then it's coming out in the hype for the PS5/XB2. It'll make money for sure but I can't help but feel it'd have done more if games like this came out at a better time, like say when it was popular to help it draw attention
Ditching Nintendo partnership in the west is what doesnt make sense. The addition of PS4 will very possibly not be enough to offset the loss of sales by not having Nintendo push this game
That is my problem. It would also mean much less marketing that would offset all the extra sales gained by a PS4 version
Well Yo-kai Watch 4 will be a port of an "old" game. So of course it won't get a lot of marketing. Should have launched the PS4 port day 1 with the Switch version. In the end, this will be a "port of an old game" when it launches. Nice for people who don't have a Switch and want to play it with better graphics on their TVs. A multiplatform release is a good idea for this IP.
i doubt it. i don't think level-5 ported the game to ps4 just for japan, that'd be pretty dumb. so now we have to see who they're new publisher is. or maybe they're self-publishing. they're doing that for the new layton ports if i'm not mistaken.
That's my point. It should've been a Day 1 multiplatform release, ideally worldwide and prior to the release of the PS5/XB2. As it is, it's just gonna come and go whenever it ends up coming to the west
I mean, this is the same company that decided to remaster Ni no Kuni and treat it as two separate games in terms of marketing. They are perhaps not stupid enough to leave a PS4 port in Japan, but they are stupid.
So it must be a great idea to port it to PS4, right? That interest! LOL
Oh crud, and I forgot all about the game releasing next week! Another incoming bomb from Level 5!
That would be even better!
Yeah, but it's a good sign. Maybe the next YW game will launch day 1 as a multiplatform game now :)
Well that assumes they don't move on to a new IP by then...but perhaps that new IP will be multiplatform
The game has the same dichotomy in Japan, where Level-5 self-publishes: the "For Nintendo Switch" version and the remastered branding for the PS4 version.
The next YW is a remastered Switch port of the first YW and it is not multiplatform though.
True but I don't remember Layton and Inazuma Eleven dropping so fast.
Yeah I don't mean ports/remasters of the old 3DS ones. More like new stuff :)
I mean if you are seriously trying to introduce a new audience to a franchise it would make sense if the first game that started it all is also multiplatform. :p
What Yakuza has to do with YW? Also Switch sells well in asia, if its version ends up being not successful in asia I doubt a PS4 one would be
i wouldn't be too sure about a new yo-kai watch any time soon. i mean this one went from a million seller to 200k sales, how low can the next one go? i think this is it for the series, other than ports of old games.
Yeah, but the older ones got published by Nintendo, no? You never know what kinda contracts exist behind the scenes. Maybe they can't bring the old 3DS ones to a different platform. Well, at least 4 is finally coming. A nice start :P
Level-5 needs new IPs. So let's see :)
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