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noname2200 on 23 November 2009
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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Kasz216 said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:

And they're blaming the DS for their trying to focus on the PS3.

Gotta love these third parties.  Out of ALL the consoles to be complaining about, the DS....Not even the Wii, but the DS.  Tha'd be like a company coming out and complaining about the PS2 last gen because their ventures on the XBOX didn't pan out as they hoped.

I can understand why they're frustrated though.  They have the same small group of people buying all their games and that group is more or less "Spread to the wind."


They have no clue where it's gone.  They started with the PS3 hoping it would be them but then the PS3 stalled.

 

Hence all the ports after Disgaea 3.  I think they're just hoping the ports would be good testers for other systems so they could find where their base has gone.

And that's what I'm saying.  They're blaming other companies for 'saturating the market' when they're part of the problem, making a bunch of ports of 10 year old games.  Their comments about Nintendo having too high of rolayty costs just seems like an excuse because they couldn't cover their losses for making a bunch of ports that didn't sell as well as they wanted to cover their lackluster PS3 venture.

I have no idea why you folks are talking like NIS is bitter against the DS, or why people keep bringing up the games they've brought to it. Let's look at the interview one more time:

It opens with "Publishers are saying this, eh?" and at no point does NIS ever say "We have poor sales, and we blame DS." They're simply taking the statement that they're given, and trying to come up with reasons why others feel that way. Shoot, the second paragraph starts with "If publishers are saying this" and continues with "it's probably due to..." Not once is NIS saying "this is what we have to say about that!" They're just trying to give reasons why Siliconera's sentence may be true.

 

 

To repeat: NIS is NOT lamenting their profits, it is NOT necessarily agreeing that RPG publishers are struggling, and it is definitely NOT blaming the DS.