| twesterm said: So the big dogs can hang with the big dogs? I'm talking about studios like Atlus that make phenominal games but just cannot compete because they don't have an infinite budget that people expect from an RPG. It's sad but true that people will buy what looks better and SE can take as long as they want to make their games look perfect and if you don't look as good as the best, you're shit. Stupid threads like this prove that. |
Oh god. You mean to tell me small publishers can't compete with large publishers? Jeez...who would have ever thought that? Those are the breaks sir. Indy studios have trouble also getting their movies to sell 100 million in theatres, and indy books have trouble, and indy music has trouble, and anyone without enough capital to market to millions usually doesn't see millions in sales in return. This is life.
Maybe if Atlus was making those amazing games when the RPG genre was on the upswing at the tail end of the 4th generation and the beginning of the 5th, they would have garnered some attention like Square and Enix did. Instead they were making extremely niche first person JRPGs that didn't have nearly the content, music, presentation, etc. you name it while Square was making Final Fantasy VI, Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger. When Sony decided to put all the freaking eggs in FF VII's basket, I don't think it was hard for them to choose between that and something like Persona 2, after seeing what Square did for Nintendo the previous gen and how Atlus did nothing.
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