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Nihon Falcom reaches record profit for the financial year, new Legend of Heroes title to be released by September 2020, possibly remasters for PS4
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Another exciting fact is that Falcoms revenue in the West has rapidly increased, even despite the delay of Trails of cold steel 3 to next fiscal year. Now over 16% of their sales comes from NA/EU.
The PS4 ports of Trails of cold steel 1/2 and switch port of Ys 8 must have done really well.
The PS4 ports of Trails of cold steel 1/2 and switch port of Ys 8 must have done really well.
For a fuller picture, a majority of their earnings are coming from overseas licensing and mobile.
I'm guessing in Japan. Hopefully we get them too though I imagine we'll get Cold Steel IV first.
I'd love all of Sky, Crossbell and Steel on my PS4. Edit: I'd like them on Switch and PC too for other people I should clarify ha ha.
I wish the Zero/Ao Evo versions these will likely be didn't have the new art. I'd like a version of Ao that doesn't pay extra attention tot he bullshit groping scene.
PS4 versions would probably mean localization would be feasible. If possible, it might be beneficial to have XSEED do those games, while NIS handles new releases.
PS4 versions would probably mean localization would be feasible. If possible, it might be beneficial to have XSEED do those games, while NIS handles new releases.
I agree, and I think Falcom aims to put all their games on PS4 library, in Japan and in the West. Backwards compatibility of PS5 promises them a constant stream of revenue.
Wish for ports from nisa for cold steel 3+4(+5?) while i slowly play cs3 on ps4.
I fear the remasters are the Sky ps3 remasters but on ps4 lol but we will see and i am not interested on old titles (i played crossbell arc already) and i prefer for falcom(and nisa also) to work on new arcs and titles.
Courious to see next trails and hopefully next arc will come to some portable form (stadia, Sony streaming or switch)
I fear the remasters are the Sky ps3 remasters but on ps4 lol but we will see and i am not interested on old titles (i played crossbell arc already) and i prefer for falcom(and nisa also) to work on new arcs and titles.
Courious to see next trails and hopefully next arc will come to some portable form (stadia, Sony streaming or switch)
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The new title will almost definitely be the 'Trails in the Sky the Third'-ish one that reuses a bunch of assets and focuses on tying up loose ends and characters that didn't get much time to shine that they mentioned a while back. I think this is meant to be character art from it:
Apparently it's a new engine? Iunno, that would be weird, since they split into two teams now.
Apparently it's a new engine? Iunno, that would be weird, since they split into two teams now.
I expect a Thirdish game that will bookend the current games and open things up.
PC usually means a game is accessible on at least one current platform, but there's the particular case of Azure, which is only available in Japan on PSP and Vita, its PC port being Chinese only. So that rerelease is bound to happen.
Structurally, remakes and ports are bound to happen, if only because the series relies on/is better enjoyed with knowledge of past games, so on the console side, older games can't be stuck on dead platforms forever.
PC usually means a game is accessible on at least one current platform, but there's the particular case of Azure, which is only available in Japan on PSP and Vita, its PC port being Chinese only. So that rerelease is bound to happen.
Could you point out where was this stated in the financial earnings?
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Not a problem with PS5's backwards compability. Falcom is not using 100% of PS4's power anyway (especially for remasters like Zero/Ao no Kiseki) so strict PS5 release wouldn't really add anything.
Just make sure the title runs fine on PS5's BC.
CS III and IV run terribly, so it'd be interesting to see if the PS5 didn't have the same framerate drops in major cutscenes.
Iirc page 4/19 of the report. They are talking about their revenue splitted into product and licensing segments.
Product revenue declined to about 40%, licensing increased to about 60% of total revenue.
western sales is about 16% this year, that's barely a majority. They will always have a domestic focus.
the new engine thing was a mistranslation/hoax based on a blurry screenshot of kondo showing a printed screenshot on a dengeki stream. Falcom jumping on a new engine would be very hard to imagine, it would have large ramifications on their release schedule when starting up.The new title will almost definitely be the 'Trails in the Sky the Third'-ish one that reuses a bunch of assets and focuses on tying up loose ends and characters that didn't get much time to shine that they mentioned a while back. I think this is meant to be character art from it:
Apparently it's a new engine? Iunno, that would be weird, since they split into two teams now.
So you want a Brandish-Kiseki game? I expect something like The 3rd for the next game which explain some plot questions and tease the new arc.
I would be happy it they port Zero/Ao on modern platforms, I played with the fan-translation patch and it's great! Now we must wait their next shareholders meeting in december, Kondo will surely says some word for Nihon Falcom new projects.
The fact Falcon is still hesitant to bring their games to the west/pc/switch is super frustrating. They should be bigger and more profitable then they currently are. Glad to see they're trending in the right direction for now.
It's a breakdown on page 4, not part of the charts. There's a chance I could be misinterpreting how much licensing could come from outside japan but it's there.
Grats to Falcom. I'll try to get into the Cold Steel games again one day - I just keep bouncing off of them. But I'm glad they exist as they clearly mean a lot to many people and are keeping Falcom in the profit. I do love everything else they do and want them all on PS4 and in English.
P.S I've been slowly working my way through the Japanese version of Ys IX and it's great. Please hurry up and bring it westward Falcom. I want to give you money for it all over again.
I also heard this sound as I opened the thread.
Oh and Brandish on PS4 pretty please.
P.S I've been slowly working my way through the Japanese version of Ys IX and it's great. Please hurry up and bring it westward Falcom. I want to give you money for it all over again.
I also heard this sound as I opened the thread.
Oh and Brandish on PS4 pretty please.
Hoping the next arc doesn't take 5 games.
Pretty sure Cold Steel 3 just took part of my lifespan away.
Pretty sure Cold Steel 3 just took part of my lifespan away.
Based on the screenshots it looks like the next game is just more Cold Steel related things. Maybe we'll get Calvard after that.
I hope they upped their graphics/art direction for future games...
Atelier Ryza even have better thighs & colors than Ys IX, in my opinion.
Atelier Ryza even have better thighs & colors than Ys IX, in my opinion.
Kondo said he want to limit each arc to be 2 games only, but who can tell how will it turn out.
New arc often take 2-3 years to release - Kondo did mention this before. And Calvard might be to big of an arc to be followed immediately after Erebonia. It's likely smth close to Crossbell imo.
Gust is now backed by Koei Tecmo, their resource is more abundant than ever. Can't expect Falcom makes that big leap in short time.
Yep, this! Plus, so many people own PS4s these days that it's still well worth it.
Just starting this game fully aware of the receptions toward it. And so far I like most of the early stuff.
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A lot of the complaints on here were from people who were never overly keen on the CS series to start with, did it get a bad reception in Japan?
What Is changing?
Their strategy Is always the same.
Swap nisa for xseed and everything Is like before.
One big title for year (ys than trails than ys and so on) and some ports (we had evo on vita, Sky on ps3, cs1+2 so far on ps4).
I wonder if Falcon would pressure NISA to release PS4 ports of Crossbell (and probably port to PC). We know they pressured XSEED to do CS and saw what happened when a partner declined to work with them on a project - they dumped XSEED for not doing Tokyo Xanadu.
Hard to imagine NISA being enthusiastic about working on ports of the old games since they probably won't sell well, but will still be huge projects. Most newcomers to the series seem to want to skip the pre-CS games no matter how much they are encouraged not to.
Hard to imagine NISA being enthusiastic about working on ports of the old games since they probably won't sell well, but will still be huge projects. Most newcomers to the series seem to want to skip the pre-CS games no matter how much they are encouraged not to.
