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jarrod on 27 January 2010
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NoCtiS_NoX said:
jarrod said:
gansito said:
time to change strategies and make games for XBLA and PSN as well marvelous, stop bleeding money on the wii, exclusivity is not the way to go.

They shifted away from Wii like half a year ago.  If they're doing badly now, it's due to low revenues from more recent DS & PSP projects (Luminous Arc 3, Rune Factory 3, Sakura Note, Hitman Reborn, Postpet, etc).

 

edit: And PSN/XBLA would be a sure route to failure, they'd just be trading one set of huge problems (distribution/inventory/retail concerns) for another (userbase/awareness/pricepoint concerns).  Digital isn't the way out for Japanese companies making games for a mainly Japanese audience.

This says otherwise.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26163/Marvelous_Sees_Success_With_PSP_Games_Less_So_With_Wii.php

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/11/19/marvelous-lost-money-on-wii-made-money-with-psp/

 

 

Welcome to sales from six months ago.  News hit later because of a Marvelous investment call in November, but they haven't released a Wii game since October (Valhalla Knights ES), and before that in the summer.  They've been doing even worse recently, even on DS.