It's not a misunderstanding of pipelines, I even pointed out Mana being a Unity title (n3DS had Unity support). It's about misplaced priorities and using the Unity based Mana or SaGa as examples of titles that would likely have been better served being ground up 3DS games and then ported from there to mobile or wherever made sense. As was done for Theatrythm FF or DQVII for example.
I mean, DQX did relatively well on Wii U. Far better than the average SE Japan Vita title and as their lone Wii U title that's all we really have to go on.
FF3 DS also did 1m. If FFIV hadn't had multiple rereleases right beforehand I wonder if FFIV DS would have too.
Yes; my theory is that Momotaro will probably around 1.3 million next week, retail only. 90% sell-through gives us 1.44 million shipments to retail, with digital making up the rest of the gap.
They followed it up directly by forming Tokyo RPG Factory to make games on, uh... about everything except 3DS.
To be fair, TRPGF's problems are far beyond their platform selections.
Monster Hunter World really set a precedent when it comes to sacrificing a part of the Japanese market to make an AAA title that focuses on the west first and foremost. I mean, who wouldn't want to go for 10+ million sales like that? Capcom successfully found Western Eldorado and now other Japanese companies want a piece of that pie, even if it ends up costing them some Japanese sales and a better presence on the Switch.
Im not sure MHW2 can repeat MHW numbers, Iceborne attach rate in the west is low but maybe they can keep half of World western sales
We've just seen Tropical Freeze failing to do that though. At this point, DKCRs sales seem like a one off due to nostalgia, and not something sustainable for Donkey Kong 2d platformers.
"Where we're going, we don't need ceilings!"
Momotaro Dentetsu x Cyberpunk 2077
I think Wii Party and Mario Party DS. They sold about 2.4M and 2.1M respectively
