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Rei on 09 February 2010
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Like has been said by Hino, the head of Level-5, they aren't really going for sales but 'quality'. But in that crusade of sorts, they have gotten a lot of sales. I think they are doing the right thing, not trying to target a specific market or focus on one kind of series, but just try to make good games. And its paying off. In short, they're like the old Enix, just making and publishing high quality games and hiring anyone who is good.

It may just be irony that now the major Dragon Quest games are being made through their company. Or maybe its not....maybe its a conspiracy...


You seriously think that Professor Layton wasnt targeted at a specific audience and it being on the DS has nothing to do with that? haha.



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freebs2 on 09 February 2010

Good to see sometimes a third party performing better on a nintendo system



jarrod on 09 February 2010
Rei said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Like has been said by Hino, the head of Level-5, they aren't really going for sales but 'quality'. But in that crusade of sorts, they have gotten a lot of sales. I think they are doing the right thing, not trying to target a specific market or focus on one kind of series, but just try to make good games. And its paying off. In short, they're like the old Enix, just making and publishing high quality games and hiring anyone who is good.

It may just be irony that now the major Dragon Quest games are being made through their company. Or maybe its not....maybe its a conspiracy...


You seriously think that Professor Layton wasnt targeted at a specific audience and it being on the DS has nothing to do with that? haha.

I'd have to agree, almost all L5's games are ingeniously targeted, which is in large why they've been so enormously successful (quality's really the other half of the equation).  They're almost on level with Nintendo in that regard in knowing their audience, and well ahead of most other JP publishers, even Capcom and Square Enix imo.

Layton hits the Brain-Age demographic, but layers an attractive narrative and characters over it all.  Inazmua Eleven is like Pokemon mixed with Winning Eleven, the DS kids eat it up.  Danboard Senki is like Pokemon mixed with Gundam, the PSP Otaku will eat it up.  Nunokuni brings Ghibli's heritage to Dragon Quest sensibilities, with a dash of Harry Potter, and it's going to be HUGE.

Level-5 really is a case study in how smartly run a company.  They're probably one of the biggest success stories this generation, even outside Japan.



Kenryoku_Maxis on 10 February 2010
Rei said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Like has been said by Hino, the head of Level-5, they aren't really going for sales but 'quality'. But in that crusade of sorts, they have gotten a lot of sales. I think they are doing the right thing, not trying to target a specific market or focus on one kind of series, but just try to make good games. And its paying off. In short, they're like the old Enix, just making and publishing high quality games and hiring anyone who is good.

It may just be irony that now the major Dragon Quest games are being made through their company. Or maybe its not....maybe its a conspiracy...


You seriously think that Professor Layton wasnt targeted at a specific audience and it being on the DS has nothing to do with that? haha.

I meant target a specific market as a whole, such as RPGs or Action games.  IE Square focuses mostly on RPGs along the vein of Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest.

Level-5 however, has a varried range of games targetting multiple areas of game production.



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Kenryoku_Maxis on 10 February 2010

Sorry, double post.  Stupid new 'Final Fantasy T-Shirt ad' is redirecting me and causing syntax error.



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Catlana on 10 February 2010
VivaLaWiida said:
Jeanne d'Arc sales make me cry. Such a wonderful game v_v

QFT! The Jeanne d'Arc numbers make me sad.

 



jonnhytesta on 10 February 2010

white knight chronicles destroys Jeanne d'Arc with japan only sales? and people say that psp piracy is irrelevant lol



SaviorX on 10 February 2010

VGC is pretty close for all these games (Layton is an even bigger hit than we thought!) It is about time they made a Wii game too. The console was conspicuously missing from their list.



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Kasz216 on 10 February 2010
MontanaHatchet said:
Jeanne D'Arc is at 300k on this site

It's a shame... it's why I bought my PSP.  Not so much for the game... but i was thinking to myself... "Self... I need something to push me over the edge."

Saw a copy of it for 5 bucks new at a Mall store.


Sold and sold.

 

That said, it has a good story... all kinds of great innovations and everythings done right... yet something about it doesn't hold my interest like other SRPGs that are more flawed objectivly in my mind.

 

Strange stuff really.



Kasz216 on 10 February 2010
jonnhytesta said:
white knight chronicles destroys Jeanne d'Arc with japan only sales? and people say that psp piracy is irrelevant lol

Jeanne D'arc is the quintessential SRPG.

 

Piracy didn't have anything to do with it not selling.

 

It being a SRPG on an unpopular system did that.

200K is actually good for a SRPG series.

 

Check out Disgaea 3... that's at about 230K... and that's a big IP in the SRPG world.


The remakes on PSP did worse.

Heck I'm pretty sure even the PSP Super Robot Wars games didn't do much better.