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Acevil on 17 August 2016

Kresnik said:

Acevil said:

Ya, I sadly feel that after Vesperia they started doing things that I felt uneasy (games felt so much smaller in scope, and while not shorter felt shorter in terms of plot, DLC that was not really that great of practice, etc), surprised it was Zextiria that soured people, when I felt it was in all games.

Also 250k, that would be 100k down from the last entry no? That would hurt.

The decline in quality started with Xillia and has gone from there pretty much, I agree. With that said, I've bought every game from Grace F onwards and they all get some things right - combat is good in the Xillia games; the scale is impressive in Zestiria etc.

But they all get a lot more wrong than they get right. The dungeons are terrible in the Xillia games, and the recycling of content is terrible. In addition, Xillia 1's story is all over the place. Similarly Zestiria's story is a disaster and the empty fields and terrible camera are a pain in the ass.

Xillia 2 is the closest they've gotten to making a truly great game in the PS3/PS4 era, but it's still got a lot wrong with it.

Berseria doesn't look like it's going to fix any of these issues.

Maybe they need to go reevaluate the franchise and the best direction to move it forward. It seems only Atlus has a grasp of how to appeal to its core fanbase.

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Teeqoz on 17 August 2016

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Ratchet hasn't done such numbers since the PS2 days so that's really good. I think the biggest first week for a Ratchet game on the PS3 was A Crack in Time at 15k.

It's the small victories, amirite?

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tbone51 on 17 August 2016

At least this week answers last weeks ps4 question (about the shortages)

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Kerotan on 17 August 2016

Can't wait for the hardware announcements in a few weeks so ps4 can go back into beast mode.

Sales are definitely not normal right now with rumoured shortages and consumers no doubt holding off on their purchase until the new ps4's are revealed. Excellent sales considering.

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zippy on 17 August 2016

Mario and sonic games both doing well. The Wii U version is surprisingly a decent game.

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Boutros on 17 August 2016

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Is there something wrong with Etrian Odyssey V? I ask because the user score is terrible.

Yeah two user reviews lol

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konnichiwa on 17 August 2016

Acevil said:

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Yeah it is better to just expect nothing anymore to feel postive about the numbers. Atleast about the console market.

Consoles (think it includes handhelds) made 2 billion $ in software while Mobilve software passed 9$billion in 2015 in Japan

http://www.serkantoto.com/2016/08/17/japans-mobile-game-market-size/

Thanks to zhuge ex for posting it on twitter.

Do you know 2008-2012 data of Consoles and Handhelds for software?

Is an old one but 2 billion bucks is around 200 billion yen.

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Acevil on 17 August 2016

konnichiwa said:

Acevil said:

Do you know 2008-2012 data of Consoles and Handhelds for software?

Is an old one but 2 billion bucks is around 200 billion yen.

Strange, so that means the decline really started since 1997 and was boosted in 06-08 (because of the Wii, I imagine) before returning back downwards.