Tsutaya Game Ranking (Feb 11 - Feb 17)

[Otakumegane]

BaldrSkies said:

gigantor21 said:

Wait, just 10 employees? That sounds tiny even for a portable release. You'd think a staff that small would only make downloadable games. Pretty damn impressive.

Dragon Quest will destroy in Japan again this week. I think Animal Crossing's performance is scarier, though. :p

Yes and they work very hard. With their 10 employees they push around 3 titles per year, mostly in the past on the Xbox 360 and PSP. They are a company that is used to selling 5-10k copies of their games, and now it seems they may hit 100k with Demon Gaze (including downloads). This is a huge success for such a small developer.

Experience already mentioned (before Demon Gaze released) that they plan to release at least 3 games onto Vita. It seems they made the right choice.

It seems Demon Gaze and Monpiece and the like are doing very well on the Vita. The platform seems great for niche games.

The question is why are the niche games achieving success and the rest of them don't.