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jarrod on 19 November 2009
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famousringo said:
Soriku said:
 



@outlaw

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure Rising Star and XSeed and Ignition have ties to Marvelous when they publish their games.

If that's REALLY true, MMV need a Western subsidary like NIS or Atlus.

This is what I find puzzling. They list LKS, which was published by XSEED in NA and Rising Star in EU. But they don't list Muramasa's sales in NA, which was published by Ignition.

So it appears that XSEED and Rising Star cut deals with Marvelous to get their localization deals, while Ignition deals straight with the developer? Or perhaps XSEED and Rising Star pay a per-unit royalty while Ignition pays a lump sum?

I'd love to know the answer here.

Marvelous owns Rising Star, it's their European subsidiary.  Basically Rising Star = Marvelous Europe.

With XSEED, they have an exclusive publishing arrangement in place.  Marvelous can still shop around games to other publishers (like Natsume, Atlus, Ignition and Ubisoft) but they only report sales that are made under the XSEED alliance.

 

 

outlawauron said:
famousringo said:
I'm glad that LKS made them at least a little money.

I guess Marvelous didn't see a cent from Muramasa's robust NA sales. That's unfortunate.

Nope. They won't get a cent from Arc Rise Fantasia's sales either.

@ Soriku

It doesn't matter if they hit NA or EU if Marvelous isn't publishing it.

lol.  Are you insane, it's THEIR game... Marvelous is the one who chose Ignition over XSEED chiefly because they gave them a far, far better deal on Muramasa and ARF.  They've undoubtedly made MORE on Muramasa with Ignition than they would've with XSEED.