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GAMEXPLAIN SOURCES: Platinumgames will launch a kickstarter to fund Switch/PS4 ports of The Wonderful 101
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So I've always wondered and I think I already know the answer, but if you give money to a kickstarter and it fails it's goal, they keep the money right?
Nintendo Life and Push Square are part of the same network of websites.
They're not wrong though. That game won't stay exclusive forever.
no. though I think KS has a type of funding that allows for that? I know other platforms do. it's rarely used, and I don't believe PG will utilize it.
There's a full-year number.
Media Create Sales: 2013 CY {2012.12.31 - 2013.12.29}
400. [WIU] The Wonderful 101 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.08.24} (¥6.930) - 14.134 / 14.134
Edit: And that's with a launch shipment of 30.000 units (source)
doesn't ps4 make more sense? devs aren't going to stop releasing ps4 games for at least 1 or 2 years after ps5 is out, and every ps4 game will run on ps5 anyway. this way they have a way bigger userbase.
Thank you. I didn't knew that.
I'm sure it will come in handy in the future.
You'd rather they not release the niche as hell game, that no-one in their right mind would fund a port of at all then?
I think this is the exact kind of thing Kickstarter should be used for.
If you want it to happen that is. I guess it's time for TW101 hardcore fans to do their thing, if the kickstarter is indeedly a thing this might be a now or never kind of scenario.
lol. if it helps, i consider nintendo life to be a garbage click-baity website too. guess it runs in the family.
We aren't changing system architecture. There's a reason PS4/XB1 games will work on the next systems
Nah that's Indiegogo. If the Kickstarter fails to reach its goal by the end date, every person that backed the project isn't charged. Kickstarter only charges you once the project has met its goal.
So W101 doesn't count as a Nintendo game anymore? Nevermind it was fully funded and Nintendo partially owned the IP? 🤔
Game data library lists as having 27.028 ltd. For comparison TMS is 23.806 first week with a ltd of 36.868. Bayo 2 is 33.114 first week and 48.462 ltd.
Out of all of W101 was the worst selling but the one with the best legs. I wonder what did it, maybe it was heavily discounted or something?
This "twist" is even stupider than I imagined. Good luck, Platnium. Do I get blocked if I donate in dollars?
Nintendo probably isn't giving up ownership, or at the very least retains first right of refusal for sequels, which might explain why no other publisher was willing to touch this.
Atlus is releasing P5S in about 2 weeks. TMS release was likely timed to build up to that.
that's just japan tho, my guess is both TMS and bayonetta 2 did far better outside japan. we know bayo 2 on wii u did around ~300K a few weeks after launch.
At first I thought it was BS. Then after listening and looking at what's happening I'm now ready to back a Wonderful Kickstarter when it goes live!
yowza.
2014:
682. [WIU] The Wonderful 101 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.08.24} (¥6.930) - 3.885 / 18.019 (5.258 <17,64%>)
2015:
944. [WIU] The Wonderful 101 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.08.24} (¥6.600) - 1.630 / 19.648 (-58%) (5.258 <17,64%>)
Safe to say even including digital it never hit 30K in Japan.
That probably includes some random digital estimate. Not sure where they got that from.
Nintendo uses Media Create for sellthrough, not Famitsu.
Media Create Sales: 2014 CY {2013.12.30 - 2014.12.28}
682. [WIU] The Wonderful 101 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.08.24} (¥6.930) - 3.885 / 18.019 (5.258 <17,64%>)
You should stop making threads and comment on threads by them then.
I hope this works out. I think publishers should do this for projects that they want to do, but don't know if the demand is there for it.
I know that. I'm just using as a point of comparison since we are talking about Japan sales in the other posts.
Yeah, I do wonder where the numbers come from in this case. With that said it sadly did do pretty abysmally, even if we compared to other Wii U games.
Hopefully with the KS it manages to find a bigger audience.
It's not Mario or Zelda. Look at that list. Out of 18 how many games on that list that aren't Nintendo old franchises?
For those blaming the Wii U for The Wonderful 101's sales, remember Switch had a game called Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido which even had Nintendo EPD involved.
It still feels weird though. When you look at the, by the time being, almost 1400 Spirits on SSBU and see the plethora of dormant IPs which they still hold and yet they gave up on this one but hold a lot of others.
It still feels weird though. When you look at the, by the time being, almost 1400 Spirits on SSBU and see the plethora of dormant IPs which they still hold and yet they gave up on this one but hold a lot of others.
emily who has some good track record said the IP changed hands
No, Kickstarter takes the money only if the project is funded.
Goddamn, I've heard of moving the goalposts, I've never seen them strapped to a Ferrari and blazing away on the track like that before.
Wonderful 101 didn't need to be a million seller and make that list, but it realistically need to do a couple hundred k without major price slashing, like bayonetta managed (got Nintendo to fund both ports and another sequel) and it definitely did not do that.
Do enough people care about W101 to back a successful Kickstarter for it? There's a reason even Nintendo won't help their buddy PlatinumGames out here.
I remember someone in the Smash thread yesterday calling the Direct thread crazy for entertaining the idea of Kickstarter. Womp womp lol
Splatoon, Lego City Undercover, Wii Party U, Pikmin 3 (depending on what you consider "old")...
There's been a lot of speculating that they did, but no one knows for sure. Where did Platnium get the money to buy it if they have to kickstart a port? It doesn't make sense. A special arrangement was almost certainly made.
Define "fine" lol. 250k doesn't sound "fine" even for the Wii U.
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