Okay, that's fair actually. I guess if the Switch had been an abject failure, that would have created an effective PS monopoly.
Whether or not it was factually true, those dev comments contributed to the discussion. Sure there was never a literal monopoly, but you didn't need the interviews to tell you how certain companies felt about switch. You really only had to look at their software output. And again, these dev comments were relatively recent, so after the Switch really took off and PS was declining. Not mid 2000s or early 2010s.
Well, according to the numbers posted above, 50k would be the highest FW for a Metroid in Japan. Between that and digital being higher than it ever was, it's much more likely retail FW will be below that.
Outside of this already being a licensed product, French Bread have done it with more recognisable IPs too:
Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax - Wikipedia
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The sales there are not dramatically different, but they're a small developer (15 employees max) and they're able to sell new versions yearly with arcade improvements and new characters.
I think when they talk about "sci-fi" they are not thinking of mecha. They are thinking about Star Wars, Alien, Mass Effect, things like that.
I don't know if MB does full pixel art, but it's very time consuming and thus labor and cost prohibitive in the long run for many companies. Even ASW changed BB to be drawn over 3d models- sort of a hybrid approach.
If you are talking about "But because of our long-standing relationship with Playstation," in this video, it's time to follow the guidelines.
Ep. 9 .hack//G.U. Last Recode on Switch
We collected many questions from our players and fans around the world on our social media, and asked our CEO Mr. Hiroshi Matsuyama to answer them personally...www.youtube.com
It's a mistranslation.
What matsuyama says is .hack series have always been released exclusively for Playstation, so Last Recode is on Playstation first.
We got lots of test games in the form of re-releases of much older titles instead of the newest/upcoming releases. Just not wholly original Switch only test titles, because that's not really financially feasible anymore
Oh you're absolutely right, for a moment I totally forgot Capcom's adult masterpieces.
The first years of Switch were full of "test" by Capcom and Bandai.
It's also important to note that what a company says and what they do can be different. Remember Nagoshi's appearance at the Switch live presentation?
I think the question now is how meaningful these comments are. If you assume that developers are so extreme in their preferences for one platform for another, that they are making a highly unprofessional choice to let that cloud what platform they develop for, you are making an extreme accusation.
Ken Levine was at the Vita presentation, those things never mean anything.
He was there as a Sega representative and they are a Switch supporter. Doesn't mean that the series and games he directs have all to be on Switch.
I don't believe I implied one way or the other what I expected Sega's support on Switch to be like based on his appearance. Merely that we shouldn't base what we think too much on dev commentary one way or the other.
With respect to the attempts to reach out to the community and provide clarity, I do not believe it would be productive to stifle discussion on what is an ongoing event that has a lot of people in the community concerned. I am sure everyone wants to put the last couple of days behind them, but there are clearly still discussions that need to be had. Conversations that are more important to have as a group and with each other, not just in private messages with the moderation, or in the constructive community discussion thread, which has little traction and the posts we did make went largely ignored. As things stand right now, people are concerned with retaliation if they speak their mind to the group:
Yeah but you have to separate between creators and the actual publishers. Like Bamco, Sega or Dye are all Switch supporters despite some of their top producers not being on Switch for various reasons.
My point wasn't that single comments paint the entire picture, but that the dev comments line up with certain platform holder and publisher actions. It was never the case that we would infer dev behavior being extreme from certain quotes, but how they all added up. As another example, we had Spike Chunsoft lamenting VITA sales with "WHY WON'T PEOPLE BUY VITA?", while they had a perfectly viable platform in the 3DS to bring their VN Dangonronpa to.
I don't believe I "lumped" SQEX with anyone or even made commentary on their Switch support. My point was how various, multiple quotes over many years, even close to decades paint a picture that Sony is treated differently than Nintendo is in the JP (and perhaps even WW) market. Oregano has made similar claims as well.
A Titanfall/Apex game with Front Mission gameplay? Yes please.
I'm curious what you think my position is on this topic, because I largely agree with what you're saying. We're both regulars here and I believe our opinions on devs are mostly the same.
I was mostly expanding on your statements, so there was no disagreement or misunderstanding from my point of view.
It's their own translation, and it was released on PC day 1 also.If you are talking about "But because of our long-standing relationship with Playstation," in this video, it's time to follow the guidelines.
Ep. 9 .hack//G.U. Last Recode on Switch
We collected many questions from our players and fans around the world on our social media, and asked our CEO Mr. Hiroshi Matsuyama to answer them personally...
It's a mistranslation.
What matsuyama says is .hack series have always been released exclusively for Playstation, so Last Recode is on Playstation first.
Fusion being the only one with great legs. With Switch being huge in Japan I still hope for a 50k - 60k launch week.People were talking about Metroid again a couple of pages back, so I figured I should re-post this. Visualizing the numbers always helps.
Basically, a 40-50k opening for Metroid Dread would be in line with prior games. Dread doesn't appear to be doing anything particularly innovative, other than bringing the classic, non-linear Super Metroid formula back, and I don't think that counts for much in Japan.
On the other hand, there are other factors that could allow it to open a little higher:
On the whole, though, none of the aforementioned factors are strong enough to allow the game to "break out" as it were. If Metroid Dread sells as well as Fusion, which was the last time a Metroid game got anywhere near 150k in Japan, I'd consider it a more-or-less satisfactory result. Like someone posted a few pages ago, Metroid isn't the kind of game the Japanese audience gravitates towards, and Nintendo knows it. This game is clearly "for the west".
- Samus has gotten a ton of exposure through Smash over the past decade
- The game itself has gotten a lot of marketing, and while it may not be as effective in Japan as it was in the USA, there's been a constant stream of info
- Finally, the game is on the Switch and we've seen that can give certain kinds of games/genres a boost
Yeah, agreed. Not going to state what I feel(For obvious reasons) but as someone who has been lurking into these threads ever since the early 3DS days and only participated actively recently, I can only feel livid for what happened these past days. Loss of regulars posters and even permaban of them leave a bad taste in my mouth and god knows what will happen thursday......
