TheWPCTraveler

I'm going to take the time to write an intelligent comment and state calmly that I've landed somewhere in the realm of the first ten comments.

@RCMADIAX Wait, you're telling me that the Japanese release is actually much cheaper than the EU release? Tabletop Gallery costs £4.09 according to Nintendo Life, so it's roughly 50% more expensive. If that's actually in Euros, that's 10%.

Well, I guess I can infer more about relative unit sales now. It's just looking better and better (relatively) for the JP version.

@RCMADIAX I'm assuming the price for the JP release is 370 yen? So, despite the fact that you have to share revenue with a publisher now (ignoring Nintendo platform revenue cuts)...you make more on a profit basis, disregarding rating licenses for both territories. Wow.
Well, I guess that what you're saying about competition should be true, considering both the TGS showing for the Wii U and how late eShop titles get released in Japan. It must also be why NoJ is bringing titles over there themselves, it's interesting considering I haven't seen them break into the Famitsu digital top ten - which typically has the last titles selling a few thousand units over four or five weeks of sales tracking.

Thank you for your time, and I found this bit:
"My second title published with Rainy Frog, Pentapuzzle, has actually been picked as "recommended" software by Nintendo and featured in their Holiday catalog in Japan."
quite impressive. I'll considering putting it on my buy list once I nab myself an eShop card.

@RCMADIAX Ah, I hope for your success, then.

Could you clarify what you mean by "more successful," though? Is it in terms of profit or revenue? Revenue would tell me a lot about the reception, seeing as both regions have roughly the same amount of sold Wii Us.

Perhaps Japan likes smaller arcade-style experiences better? Or maybe it's the eShop being more accessible there...

@Whopper744 This is handled by Natsume, though. Or, would you like Natsume to handle all VC releases from now on?

@RCMADIAX Could you report on how well it sells in Japan? I'm particularly interested in how well eShop-only titles do there, but I don't have access to Famitsu's digital tracking outside the top ten and the amount of reviews in their eShop...

@AlexSora89 There is one GCCX costume. There are three GCCX event courses. Therefore, they all unlock the same thing.

@RCMADIAX It's the cost of the following:

• Steve getting into Smash
• amiibo content in the game
• defending Nintendo of America against angry fans

And so on and so forth.

@ekreig If Gaijin Games were actually Japanese, I'd say them, but they really are a bunch of...non-Japanese people.

On-topic: I thought this might looked good enough to justify a pity purchase from the eShop, good to know it really is.

@TheLastLugia @Artwark
Ex-Atlus, Sega still has Project Diva X (PS4/Vita), Valkyria Chronicles: Azure Revolution (PS4), Valkyria Chronicles Remaster (PS4), and, uh, various PC ports and another Sonic Boom game.
Last I checked, people are actually excited for them (okay, except for that Sonic Boom game)
Note that they released Stella Glow and 7th Dragon III: Code VFD for the 3DS this year in Japan. Both performed below expectations, if shipment numbers are to be believed.

@retro_player_22 It's funny that you say that because Sega does not make pachinko machines, its sister company Sammy does. These projections are for their parent company, Sega Sammy, which resulted from their merger.

And, SNK Playmore is shifting away from the pachinko business.

@spurgeonryan @RCMADIAX He also provides lots of extra publicity for practically every niche Wii U release. By niche, I mean games like that Barbie game recently and practically every eShop title that gets glossed over.
He also pulled together a thread calling people to buy every third-party release for the Wii U.
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He also made a thread ranting about Xenoblade X getting an 84 on metacritic because of "too many things to do." Not that I don't agree, of course

@sillygostly It's the equivalent of $30 in Japan.

@Artwark The best-selling hunter game series after MonHun is God Eater.
Despite it selling just a fraction of what MonHun sells, it still manages to break 250k with each mainline entry.

I'd respect Monster Hunter if I were you. Or anything with a "Monster" in it in Japan, really...

Oh, good! I'll probably get A-Train alongside this.

@ikki5 No, they confirmed iOS/Android sort of mobile, which is the reason for those phone game graphics.

@Spoony_Tech My friend who absolutely adored Stella Glow said it took him roughly 40 hours to beat the game.

I was disappointed a bit by the length, but it clears up time for me to complete TWEWY (I really don't know how pins evolve yet, though...) and pick up a either 999 or one of those DS Final Fantasies.

I'm digressing from the topic, and I'm using these ten million figures to extrapolate a shipment number of probably one million outside Japan. And, from what I'm seeing, it's either selling itself to children or it's going to end up in the bargain bin...I have to check Miiverse, however.

@AVahne Surely Nintendo won't mind if they find out one day there are, like, 5 million people "living" in Alaska!

Side note: Nintendo should sell music like the Fire Emblem orchestra music on the eShop. I loved the rendition of "The Final Holy War" in the recording of an FE orchestra I heard.
Should be cheap too, so they could give it away for free if they so desired.

@BaffleBlend Or you could use the cash to buy a sweet new theme.
You know, the ones for $0.99 like the Project Mirai DX theme! Well, provided you live in somewhere with a 0% sales tax like Alaska!

@DiscoGentleman Still not competitive relative to ATLUS sales at up to 80% off like what happened with SSQ/EO Untold.

@GeminiSaint Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors.

A certain Zero might be interested in this project.

@AVahne This. Awakening is a really weak FE title until you compare it to something like the Famicom entries or their DS remakes.

Also, I might want to note that the (lack of) difficulty in Stella Glow is by design. Removing one thing would render the game too difficult to be played with having to rely on items.

PS. I find myself enjoying Stella Glow more than I did with the non-console FE titles. I can vouch for how good its music is, especially!

@ikki5 The ironic thing about this farce is that they replaced an "offensive" outfit with possibly the most offensive thing to Native Americans.

I should be angry, but they're so incompetent at this that this just makes me laugh.

@GeminiSaint ...and?
I'm asking you, so what? You're stating that they would get offended.

Let people get offended! Not every depiction has to be positive - I should know that, since I'm a Filipino!
Let people see both sides, both positive and negative, and let them judge for themselves! What do you think our brain is here for - regurgitating the sane things over and over again, regardless of their truth value? You cannot have a coin that only has one side.

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This isn't the place for this, this is a games site. I apologize for stating what I believe in in clear terms, too, since apparently, that can offend people now.

@GeminiSaint ...and?

You know what's more offensive? Removing all traces of a culture, placing shackles on creative freedom, letting people go close their minds to everything they don't want to feel, making people think inside the box and only inside the box.

The list goes on.

Are you fine with repeating the same cycles of hatred and violence over and over, with people closing their minds to all dissenting thoughts and ideas?

@SahashraLA You do realize that there are also lots of works were Japan is depicted in an unflattering way, right? Have you seen the war propaganda of the 30s and the 40s? How westerners nuked and subsequently turned Japan into a puppet?

Now, they're but a shadow of their former selves.

@edhe This should really sum up how stupid censorship in general is. Well done.

@Rei It's dubbed in English. There's a great chance these will be brought over to the west.

@Spoony_Tech I saw the first print run and now I'm torn between getting both TWEWY and a 3DS game and this.

By the way, SMT IV Final is JPY6250, according to the Japanese Direct if I remember correctly.
That's a $50 release here for sure.

@Ralizah More like you want great artists to continue drawing as if it was the 90s. Honestly, I think that would be a great improvement over a lot of stuff we're getting now.

@Kaze_Memaryu Oh, I might want to note that the artist they hired was only for the major character portraits. For the NPCs, well...
Let's just say they got someone else to do it.
And, uh, it doesn't mesh well. Not very well.

Crap. I remember them including the soundtrack with the 3DS release.

What do I get now?

@Damo There are people who actually prefer doing that, though, so there's that.

I discovered how good Urushihara really was when I stumbled upon a group of people talking about the new Langrisser. It was on the verge of becoming a porn dump before people started actually posting on-topic about the game itself, and the 1-hour gameplay video was thrown into the thread.

I wonder what could've happened to Front Innocent had it been more successful, though. Sort of like how Sengoku Rance is a fantastic game that people overlook because it has porn in it.

@Damo Are you talking about the game or Urushihara?

The response to the game is justified, from what I've seen. Blackouts (of the abrupt kind) during screen changes, super-chibi characters in-battle, that simplified gameplay...

And for Urushihara, I stand by how great I think his art is. Not enough people draw like it's the 90s nowadays. (Yes, I know the studio or a lot of his work isn't...safe for work, like, at all.)
EDIT: Oops, you were talking about Front Innocent. I watched it for the plot and the art, I swear! :^)

@Kaze_Memaryu Wasn't he the one who bankrupted an entire animation studio with Front Innocent?
I remember that and thinking that the OVA was beautifully animated.

@Vineleaf
One hour of Langrisser Re:incarnation Tensei gameplay.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dcLutAup7Qs

If this isn't bad enough to turn you off, congratulations.

@Spoony_Tech H-how did you get it down by 20%?!
While I'm really excited for this, I'm scared for another RF IV scenario happening to some games I was keeping an eye out for...

I'm excited for the Wii version. Oddly enough, that seems to have the most content out of all the three, so it'd be interesting to have a review of that coming.

I'll get this after I clean out the (3)DS titles on sale at a local game store.

@ThomasBW84 Yeah, something felt off about something from Aksys suspiciously looking like those eShop titles Arc System Works make.
Thanks!

Ooh. Aksys made this? Then I'll go ahead and buy it...when I have the spare cash.

Dang, these games must really do well in Japan, or something.

@Ichiban They did say they groped around for something!

"Yoshi's so much happier when Mario isn't riding him to his doom"

First the love story, now this.

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The Rainbow Road theme from Mario Kart Wii was playing in the background.

I think I have to...wipe something from the corner of my eye.

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The Rainbow Road theme from Mario Kart Wii was playing in the background.

I think I have to...wipe something from the corner of my eye.

@Morpheel Now that I think about it, it really doesn't.

Eh, at least we now know there's demand for more Waaa!

@Morpheel Waluigi, anyone? They wouldn't need these filler characters (though Dry Bowser is cool, so he gets a pass) if they just utilized Waluigi.

@rjejr Oh man, a Dry Bowser amiibo would look cool. The inky problem is that "transparent" support plastic Nintendo uses for amiibo.

I was worried this would end up exactly like this when I saw that it was some 2D platformer.
Can't say I'm surprised after the fact.

The humor and plot shouldn't come as a surprise, though - Alex Kirsch himself worked on the in-game dialogue.

@Swamp-Marsh-Mud The digital numbers come out monthly instead of weekly and may include the presence of digital-only titles.
They also have much lower numbers.

@Swamp-Marsh-Mud The digital numbers come out monthly instead of weekly and may include the presence of digital-only titles.
They also have much lower numbers.

@Swamp-Marsh-Mud Those are digital-only sales.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/10/the_legend_of_zelda_tri_force_heroes_launches_at_number_one_in_japan_but_with_sales_a_long_way_behind_predecessors
According to the latest Media Create report, Yo-Kai Watch Busters has sold nearly 1.7 million units.
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Dang.

@rjejr @Artwark @AlliMeadow @NandN3ds
I'd point to life-to-date physical sales according to Media Create, rounded to the nearest hundred thousand because I'm too lazy to get the latest figures:
Pokémon X/Y (2013): ~4.6 million
Pokémon OR/AS (2014): ~2.4 million
Yo-Kai Watch (2013): ~1.2 million
Yo-Kai Watch 2 Ganso/Honke (Head/Founder) (2014): ~3.1 million
Yo-Kai Watch 2 Headliner (2014): ~2.3 million
It's darned close to outselling Pokémon - and neither of the two are bundled in major ways in Japan.
When you take spin-offs into account...
Yo-Kai Watch Busters White Dog Team/Red Cat Team: 1.3 million+
I think this has outsold all Pokémon spin-offs on the 3DS, combined. Last I checked, the two Mystery Dungeon games on the 3DS combined to sell just 700k (though the figures are still rising for the holidays).

@Lizuka Overworld uses the controls you're used to in Pokémon games, except that you can now change the perspective slightly with L/R. In-battle controls use more touch-based controls, but it's still perfectly usable with L/R and the D-Pad.

I'd be honest, I find playing tennis really fun, so I want motion controls in this title.
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It's so weird that Nintendo made me go from hating to loving motion controls in twelve months.

The one others thing is that Camelot could've just developed a Mario Golf title, something that would've really made the GamePad shine.

As for the lack of content, look at how long the dev cycle was. It's, like, a year and a half past Mario Golf: World Tour - less, if you count DLC.
I think they're using the Wii engine but in HD - something that somehow produces great results as long as it features Mario in full 3D - so, it explains the short dev cycle.