I don’t understand how I ignored your post. The Final Fantasy franchise carries a lot of hype on its name alone. Yes, Square Enix is going to spend a tremendous amount on marketing FF XIII, because it is one of their long-time, and most popular franchises. Valkyria Chronicles was a new IP and in a niche genre (strategy/tactical RPG), so marketing is only going to carry it so far. With that said, I don’t play that many RPGs, but even I still had VC on my radar, so it’s not like the game had no marketing.
I’m sure Demon’s Souls doubled VC in sales, the shit was everywhere online and had a hardcore audience. People either got it and played it, or were scared away from it. It is legendary game, VC is a good game as well, but not as fluid to play.
lol, holy shit that sucks!
The one company that thought the game would do well in US, is now not able to punish the sequel? So unfortunate…
OH WELL, WE STILL GET IT ANYWAYS!!! ;o
Isn’t Namco Bandai the ones releasing the new Souls game though?
yeah, namco got it. they also won the bidding war on white knight chronicles 2 against i’m sure no one.
Odd that WKC2 is released MONTHS after EU @_@
Demon Souls did like 500k I think, which is like atlus’ best selling game of all time, but did it over a looooooooooooooong period.
Sega has a lot of japanese properties, but not much for the US. Japanese games are a hard sell over here, except for the things that have traditionally sold well.
Actually, Catherine is their best selling game. It killed Demons’ Souls’ record in a week and a half.
Hang on did no one here play El-Shaddai on PS3? It’s available in US ATM right?
Catherine is their FASTEST selling game, not the best.
200k in the first week or whatever.
Demon is a greatest hits, and you need to hit 500k for that.
I don’t think catherine will do that well since it doesn’t seem like the type of game to have the legs for it.
I thought it was 500k in like the first week and a half or so…
Oh, well. Retarded memory of mine.
What’s the update this time do? I saw a TV channel thing… but that’s all.Is it like a Roku box built in or something?
Apparently it releases August 16 here. I was sort of interested in it and played the demo but the gameplay feels… off? Hope it’s actually good when it releases.
“A week after its release, Catherine has already become Atlus’ biggest launch title ever. The game has shipped the most units at launch of any Atlus game in the company’s history.”
sounds like people are right but not exactly clear about what.
Yea, Cat is not Atlus’ Best Selling Game of All Time, but it is their all-time best launch title game.
There’s so much truth in this post. Like 95% of Apples products are fucking garbage but people gobble them up like they’re all gonna be gone tomorrow because apple markets the shit out of their products. Their PCs and Laptops are retardedly overpriced and their tablets lack a lot of common sense functions but everyone’s gotta have em cuz Apple knows how to generate hype.
[media=youtube]BNYWO8RrdPE[/media]
http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/video/gmw/docs/467/104/html/apv2.flv.html
I’ma just leave these here~
God that looks awesome. I need to find me a Goose!!!
so…i’m not sure i ever posted the vid(s) that i said i would of how to level to 99 on parasite eve and get your weapon/armor the best effects it can have…the vids are long, but here:
[media=youtube]2_8JA5C265s[/media]
[media=youtube]0v8ADyEIwHY[/media]
[media=youtube]XdTG54UjU3g[/media]
Man I really want to play PE now.
Anyone play the Driver San Fran demo?
I kinda liked it but the cars felt really heavy and doing sharp turns wasn’t easy @_@.
Gotta say I like that they decided to stick with how the Shift concept works.