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@Ralizah Artdink did the Xbox and PC ports. Atlus only had to work on the PS versions.

@Ralizah I don’t think it was ever meant to be demanding; the issue probably lies in Unity and the team not being experienced in it.

Unfortunately, The digital version of Soul Hackers 2 for the West was the only way to get some of the items and this is a physical chart…

@thefourfoldroot1 which would be my assumption but also

The biggest thing here is Americans buy more games but finish them less. Suggesting they also play more multiplayer games. Ala Madden, NBA, etc

Which makes sense.

Wow the comments section looks like Swiss cheese…

Anyway it will release on PC, most likely Epic first, then Steam.

That said we are talking 2023. I can see why they are concerned because I g trying to get a PS5 in Japan is difficult period. Hopefully the stock situation will be better but then.

@Ralizah well I agree angry tweets hardly mean anything. What does speak volumes about Japan, however, is Nintendo’s absolute dominance over there. Ergo the comments/tweets are kind of moot.

Playing this right after Ai Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative, yeah pacing needs work. I get it’s a VN but like so was the other one and there was t near the amount of back tracking this one does. And I’m not sure pacing is the right word as it seems to be a “feature”. I don’t know.

That said I really like the tactical battle system. And the Digimon recruitment system.

@GymratAmarillo no the game is in this state because and over-eager young dev team bit off more than they could chew. That and the project probably could have waited before being unveiled.

I feel like the PS version only exists for existence purposes. It’s not really to sell it old owners. Pretty sure the save data doesn’t carry over either.

But it’s kind of a d4mn if you do d4mn if you don’t. If there wasn’t a PS5 version people would complain.Then again no one complains about FF12 being locked at 30fps on PS5, but being 60 on the XSX.

I don’t know it just seems to me that the getting any game out of the gate these days seems pointless when all these games get “ultimate” versions.

@ShogunRok I pretty sure @Royalblues still plays. Maybe the poke will help. Royal, are you able to help?

@NEStalgia Not even Margret?

Not sure you can trust Igor…

@NEStalgia to be fair I initially thought Mona said it. Who I do trust.

I’m pretty sure that P3/P4 will go to PS4. I read the announcement as as blanket statement for “Native” PS5/Xbox Series ports of P5R. Teddie specially called them all “remasters”. I mean why else would P5R be getting native PS5 port? That makes little sense unless it includes an update of some kind.

I suspect the P3/P4 announcement will come later to release and will be on everything. Also, Atlus dropped two announcements from the line up.

I knew this was coming and had no exclusivity tied to it.

@pyrrhic_victory femme protagonist?

I have a feeling these will eventually be everywhere. I’m also not sure theiy are in fact “exclusive”. The only title with a date is P5R which is already on PlayStation.

@KidBoruto it looks to be a soft reboot of the spin off franchise. They even dropped “SMT” but more importantly “devil summoners” from the title.

@NEStalgia no =p

@Sheppard ah yeah gotcha. I think a year is a good estimate, depending or so. Someone thing like Destruction All Stars would be sooner.

@Sheppard they won’t. Christopher Dring interviewed Jim Ryan and said it would increase the cost. https://twitter.com/chris_dring/status/1508776476337975296?s=21&t=s77KhecCA-D0R0DJJEpV2Q

@NEStalgia I don’t think you deserve a handheld Disgaea game that runs well…

@Agramonte I don’t know it depends on the game. VNs run fine being Switch exclusives such as the Professor Layton series etc. Though I do agree bigger games should try to launch a PC version.

@NEStalgia if you absolutely need handheld version that runs good; you could do a Steam Deck

@Royalblues the thing that annoys me is that it was only a Switch exclusive in the West. Like why ?!?

This isn’t a “strike back”; deals usually take months to iron out the details. Bungie was looking for a buyer for a while. They just coincided around the same time.

@Ralizah it’s vanilla 5 part of the PS Plus Collection though?

I’m really happy its doing so well.

@Ralizah I can understand that especially when there is a ton of paid DLC on top of that.

@Amppari and you clearly don’t want to have a conversation of substance sorry my mistake.

@UltimateOtaku91 @Amppari the same thing it says about ND

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vg247.com/amp/the-last-of-us-part-2-cast-crew

Or any big AAA game.

Need I mention the Toys for Bob COD fiasco?

@ATaco I tried that but all the games at the store were copies of Madden 08

@Netret0120 same with COD, Assassins Creed, etc. The people that frequent boards like these etc make up a very small population of people actually buying games. Unfortunately =/

To give people an idea of how low the box charts really are -> https://mobile.twitter.com/Chris_Dring/status/1437340021779058688

This is what we are talking about very low sales.

@IonMagi https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-03-12-littlebigplanet-servers-offline-as-fans-report-ddos-attack

Midway down the page it says Vita was unaffected

https://www.google.com/amp/s/gamerant.com/littlebigplanet-servers-ddos-attack/amp/

And here’s is one of Ryan going into the servers https://youtu.be/e8_9dTnc-oc

So I thought the Vita severs were okay?
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I thought the Vita version wasn’t a part of this “debacle”.

I feel like I’m wasting my breath but here goes. If you bought Samurai Warriors 5 digital on Xbox you got a 5 dollar gift card plus enough points for another 5 dollars that amount is doubled if you have Game Pass ultimate (for the gift card). It works out to like 15 dollar more or less. Why wouldn’t you go digital then? That’s an extreme example but they run punch cards all the time and you get points searching with Bing. This without factoring something like GPU. Just look at NBA2k22; numbers weren’t great there either 23% for a sports game on Xbox. Hmmm?

@Ralizah Always the voice of reason

Been reading some reviews on this one and I think I’m going to pass. It’s super cute though.

@Lightning_FF13 yeah your definitely going to get the faster load times on an Xbox and they might do a native PS4 version if the GP version has a lot of users. I just think it’s a black sheep game right now; although the easiest to remaster.

As someone who purchase an XB1X for these games (specifically FF XIII-2) I get you, but I’m an odd duck..,

@Lightning_FF13 yup MS has full store integration works like it would if you buy FFXV from the store.

The issue with XIII is they’d have to stream it as it’s part of the PS3’s library. And I think Sony wants to add more download content to compete better. Given the underwhelming lack of popularity, I’m not sure they’d want to do a remaster either or rather against other titles.

Even the 1X enhancements were handled by MS not SE.

@get2sammyb it’s is. But the split is greater on Xbox; like Xbox is very digital. When they factor in Digital sales, the gap for RE 8 dropped significantly.

The initial RE8 split was 80/20

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-05-10-resident-evil-village-is-the-third-biggest-ps5-launch-so-far-uk-boxed-charts

And here’s for the month where Xbox jumps 31% https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-06-09-ps5-and-resident-evil-village-dominate-may-uk-monthly-charts

Which is pretty a big leap.

@ZeroOverOne same. This is super exciting at this point.

I suspect it’s Joker could be Morgana or Teddy though.

@uptownsoul Well although Hades is a part of the conversation, I was talking more in general less specially. Because even non game pass games like Nier have 10% splits with box copies.

But, no I don’t think it’s going to outsell anything; it’s not necessary. I’m just saying games pop up with 7% Xbox and people assume the game didn’t sell at all on that system. Only to find the digital sales turns into 30% which is a lot more reasonable and more indicative of the market.

@uptownsoul well without digitals sales and actually getting more concrete numbers from a more evenly divided country like the US; nothing is going to make good sense. The UK install base is far more in PS favor vs the US. Not a bad thing it’s just more difficult to compare what MS is saying based on percentages alone from a country that skews PS. And The NPDs that track the US are based on revenue not units, Hades is going to have difficultly charting.

@naruball look not trying to be argumentative or anything and the Switch isn’t even my console of choice but I think you have got a slightly narrow viewpoint.

The Switch has sold 89 million units as of last week, and it could have sold 90 by now. It’s only on its fifth year of life (Just started in March) and Nintendo has made a point of insisting they are going the full 7 years maybe even 8. It sells anywhere from 20-25 million units per year. By the time PS5 stock shortages are fixed; the Switch might actually pass PS2 numbers.

I don’t know what the future holds but I’m not going to discount what I see before my eyes either. Non enthusiasts are back to buying all things Nintendo.

@naruball Game of Year that’s your qualifier?

Sheesh the GA at large don’t even know those exist.

Listen, Switch has passed PS3/360, you really think PlayStation is going to stay on top for too much longer? It’s nipping at PS4’s heels as we speak. Globally, the Switch is selling more units than Sony almost universally everywhere. This is without the “blockbusters” as you pointed out. Although to be fair, Switch has BoTW2 and Splatoon 3 on the Horizon. Not to mention, they have Pokémon and SMT V this holiday. And Arceus in Jan.

My point is here is don’t think Sony is safe because some games skip Switch. They won’t forever because people are even willing to use cloud to get their games on the system. Like Hitman 3.

@Th3solution funny you mention that. The Capcom Leak suggests a new Resident Evil game, but with Switch as the lead platform. Like MH Rise?

It’s really hard to gage because so many games skip Switch or they come later. But the notion that its character design when games like Sakura of Rice and Ruin sold better on the Switch o.O or end up having better legs like SW5.

I’d also like to point out, COD was the only reason this didn’t happen earlier this year. COD the most Western game you can get -

https://www.gematsu.com/2021/01/famitsu-sales-1-4-21-1-10-21

Literally Call of Duty is the reason it took the Switch another 8 months to push PlayStation numbers in Japan out.

@Necodriver While I think we agree in some respects it's not the character design that's the issue. I think you're getting too into what would be an over all surface level problem. I mean Geshin has some pretty generic designs and that's pretty popular. And Kaine from Replicant is dressed the same, but that game didn't do as well as Automata. Also, Ghost of Tsushima did pretty well and Jin doesn't look like a typical Japanese game protagonist.

God Eater 3 had character designs that you are mentioning, but it still didn't due super well, it did better for sure that some of the other Bandai Namco titles. However, the previous entries had much better user base. Code Vein had to make a lot of deep discounts in order to sell as well as it did. Again it's not the "Character design". Incidentally, Code Vein isn't on the Switch and God Eater 3 was a later port. Kind of funny for a game that was known to be a Handheld Monster Hunter game. But I'll get into that later in this post.

No, the issue the over all game design and aesthetics. I can't find the Twitter quote, or I'd quote it. Anyway, a Japanese twitter user actually applauded that Xbox's first party exclusives in the new gen were a Flight Sim and Racing game. Not a shooter or an action game. Incidentally, Xbox is doing a lot better this gen in Japan than last gen. It's not flying off the shelves or anything, but it's definitely found a tiny niche group.

Look just making a character look a certain way is not going to solve a fundamental issue in that the games bones aren't necessarily good for that market. Going on about Scarlet Nexus is kind of funny because it's not on the Switch to compare the sales. Which is another issue being ignored here. You can talk about Westernization, but let's look at one fact here-

*Switch combined SKUs has literally double the install base of the Playstation Combined SKUs." In Japan.

Not putting a game on the system with the largest install base kind of makes it difficult to sell to that country don't you think? Imagine how people feel when games don't make the conversion to PlayStation? It's the largest install base is a common argument.

I'm not disagree with your points about the big AAA games coming from Japan being Westernized, I just think your too focused on one aspect.

Edit: Accidentally pushed Reply before I was done.

@rjejr Defining Duke had an interview with Mike Rose as did Nintendo life, I believed it was mentioned in both. There is often an uptick in sales of GP titles; at least multi-player which is attributed to the friend purchasing a copy to play with.

@Amppari the Xbox chart doesn’t include Digital.

@The_New_Butler so why would anyone expect the reverse? Or better yet get mad ? Makes no sense.

If Insomniac comes out with a Sunset Overdrive Remaster, should I expect to play it on my Xbox then?

@AndyKazama I guess we’ll see how it goes. Hopefully even though niche this will trigger more interest in the series. I believe it’s possible but it’s hard to say.

@anoyonmus that’s not how copyright works. It’s super illegal not to credit the owner. That’s why at the end of every new Smash character trailer they have copyright a paragraph long.

@anoyonmus yeah I get that and yes we don’t know the details of the rights. However, the case of Wonderful 101 is very specific. And really given what we’ve seen in the past Nintendo isn’t really okay with publishing their games elsewhere.

Also, the fact that KT scrubbed Nintendo off the trailers suggests that Nintendo’s control of the title must be very limited.