| S.T.A.G.E. said:
Yeah, but remember the Japanese games generally sell steadier on console because that is their known platform. If Japanese devs wanted these games on PC they would've done it ages ago. Theres obviously something stopping them from seeing it as an added bonus. Its kind of like Mass Effect, the numbers are weak on PC even though it performs the best. The 360's sales are a huge commercial source for the franchise, but even the PS3 who came late to the party outsold PC. Secondly, most of the Japanese games are better played with a gaming pad, which of course is optional on a PC. This helps the cause, but really what I need to see is how much it sells in all two months from launch. |
I think the lack of PC releases for Japanese games has more to do with the fact that PC gaming just isn't a thing in Japan. Like that producer at FROM said, they weren't even aware that people played games on PC until they heard about the petition.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the PC would become the primary market for for Japanese developers. But there is clearly a market there, and there are more and more Japanese games comming to Steam/PC. From the Ys games to Reccetear, Dark Souls, Binary Domain, and most Capcom games (except the one which probably would have sold the best Dragons Dogma for some reason). And more sales for these games can't be a bad thing.
Also keep in mind we are talking about publisher like Marvelous here which has never had a million seller. And Dark Souls 360 only did arround 200k units in it's first month for comparison.
We can't really know how the PC versions of games like Mass Effect do as we don't really have the data. There is no tracking of digital sales and VGChartz's tracking of PC sales has been shown to be way off whenever publishers release numbers, they basically don't actually track most of Europe which is where PC games often outsell the console versions according to some publishers.
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