jarrod said:
outlawauron said:
Soriku said:
patjuan32 said:
What Marvelous needs to do is team up with a publisher that will advertise their games in the West. Without advertising how are gamers going to know that a particular game is out. They need to stop blaming gamers and save some for themselves. |
They aren't blaming gamers though...they actually blamed themselves because of the lack of marketing.
@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.
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Well, Marvelous sells the license to Ignition or XSeed, etc. so that they can publish the game. Unless, they have a deal where Marvelous receieves extra compensation based on sales.
From my understanding, the Japanese company sells the license to an western publisher and then, the product becomes property of that publisher in that region. So, the American sales of Muramasa stand to benefit Ignition and not VanillaWare or Marvelous. It's what I was saying yesterday.
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Licensing deals work differently every time, but yes they're most often ratios based on sales volume these days. I'm not privy to the details here, but when the Muramasa megaton came down, XSEED's president said they lost the game specifically because Ignition offered a better deal. I'm pretty sure Marvelous saw plenty of dollars in the process...
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All of which happened after this report was filed if I'm not mistaken.
I also think that licensing deals are not universal, and will change depending on the game and publishers.
