Marvelous, crying over bad sales.

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alfredofroylan said:

Really, really Sad. mavelous is one of the few companies that try quality content and original things on the Wii.

In an unusually honest staff post [English translation/mention here] published on Marvelous Entertainment's Japanese blog for Little King's Story, the Tokyo-based publisher says it feels like crying over low game sales.

The post specifically points to sales for Wii titles such as No More Heroes, Rune Factory Frontier, Oboromuramasa (Muramasa: The Demon Blade), Harvest Moon: Waku Waku Animal March (Harvest Moon: Animal Parade), and Arc Rise Fantasia, the last three of which aren't releasing stateside until later this year.

According to Marvelous, the studio tried its best to foster those games despite time constraints and limited budgets, but all of them shipped very disappointing numbers. The author (who I'm presuming is managing director and Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada) admits, "I truly have teary eyes. I feel like crying."

The post goes on to say that the company's games that sell are really selling well despite the current market, remarking that the low numbers for those underperforming releases could be due to Marvelous' own failings in promoting them.

The publisher then pleads with Japanese gamers who are interested in purchasing Little King’s Story to put in preorders for the real-time strategy Wii title, as retailers will not take their game for display in their shops if the amount of preorders remains low. The title already released under joint venture Rising Star Games in Europe last April, where it has received high marks from most reviewers, and will ship under Xseed and Marvelous Entertainment USA in North America on July 21st.

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/06/marvelous_tearyeyed_over_poor.php#more

 

Hrm looking at the list the only game I can even think that they're talking about is Rune factory or just their Japanese sales in general, because going by their list, not many of those have made their way to the states yet and two of their games that I'm assuming they're talking when their games sell they sell well being No More Heroes and Harvest Moon, they both got a good portion of their sales in the states.

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?&results=50&name=&console=Wii&keyword=&publisher=206&genre=&order=Sales&boxart=Both&showdeleted=&region=All&alphasort=

I think it might be time for Marvelous to focus more on their western fanbase a bit more, as I've seen stated on here already marketing will help out a lot, I know they do a good job marketing in Japan, but it's obvious Japan isn't digging their games, Suda 51 was at No More Heroes release with No More Heroes toilet paper and the launch was dead he was sitting there alone, if he did that here I could see a good turnout since Suda has many American fans and american game fans have a lot of time and money to waste on going to a launch with a game developer being there :P