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Yo-kai Watch 4 coming to Playstation 4
- Thread starter Xenosaga
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Just uploaded on Level-5's official channel.
Recouping losses? Struggling with Switch tech?
Strange that a series that spent its life on Nintendo (and mobile) is suddenly making the jump to Sony.
Watch as this doesn't change anything about localization.
This is probably just them trying to get some additional sales.
Maybe they think this will counter cost of adding in the hundreds of Yo-kai they promised to add post-launch
How is this possible?
How do they go from creating the biggest phenomenon in Japan since Pokemon with Yokai Watch, to crashing and burning in so little time? What went wrong?
I'm scared for my man Layton too, I don't want his house to burn down.
Pretty sure it's this (and everything else right now).
Astonishing mismanagement. Nobody asked for a Ni no Kuni movie, but they had one made anyway. It bombed.
Nobody asked for a port of YW1 for Switch so soon after YW4. But it's coming anyway.
Megaton Musashi is still nothing more than a trailer.
Snack World failed to launch, and the market they made it for (Merica) still doesn't have it.
Sold about 150,000 copies (Dengeki says it's 60% of the initial shipment) during its first week. A huge step down from the previous games.
won't do much, ps4 is on a decline in japan, so is the series, hell in the u.s i think the anime is canned!
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ouch. I think I remember the game was selling millions when the series was in its peak..
This might work? If you've got a Pokémon/Digimon itch and don't own a Switch, hey this if for you.
I'm pretty sure there will be overlapping markets here, so it's definitely not a zero audience thing.
Level-5 just shot themselves in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase Yo-Kai Watch for any system, nor will they purchase any of Level-5s games going forward. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Level-5 has alienated an entire market with this move.
Level-5, I suggest you publicly apologize and cancel Yo-Kai Watch for PS4 or you can kiss your business goodbye.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase Yo-Kai Watch for any system, nor will they purchase any of Level-5s games going forward. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Level-5 has alienated an entire market with this move.
Level-5, I suggest you publicly apologize and cancel Yo-Kai Watch for PS4 or you can kiss your business goodbye.
Desperation move.
They should just pretend this game never happened and make a new 4 following 3's gameplay. 4 battle system is trash and static.
They should just pretend this game never happened and make a new 4 following 3's gameplay. 4 battle system is trash and static.
Their target audience already has a Switch. The strength of the brand is pretty bad right now. I honestly don't see this selling well at all.
I remember how the watch toy was too hard to get back in 2014-2015, where in some places the only way to buy it was by lottery. And I will never forget how Jibanyan replaced Pikachu in some visuals like on Korokoro.
Franchise has been in a downhill since 2016 and I blame Level5 management.
Yo-Kai Watch 4 hasn't even released in the west yet, and those localizations are usually done by Nintendo, so they'd have to have another publisher pick the title up if they want it on PS4 for overseas territory.
I literally just finished it on Switch a week ago, despite the horrible performance issues o.o
Anyway, game is great, and makes me way more excited for the next Ni No Kuni than Ni No Kuni 2 did lol.
Anyway, game is great, and makes me way more excited for the next Ni No Kuni than Ni No Kuni 2 did lol.
If you were like me and hated the combat of 1 (and the little bit of 2 I played), then this is significantly better, and way closer to the original Ni No Kuni.
Desperation is a stinky cologne.
It's pretty crazy to think just how big this series was earlier in the decade, only for Level-5 to Level-5 the fuck out of it in recent years.
It's pretty crazy to think just how big this series was earlier in the decade, only for Level-5 to Level-5 the fuck out of it in recent years.
Level5 trying anything they can do to save the series. It's their fault for it losing so much steam so quickly. Rather than throwing everything they got and releasing year after year of games. They could have spread it out like Pokemon so people weren't overwhelmed with it.
