| JazzB1987 said: I dont see how developing games for a system with like no userbase is helpful here. Why not PS3 games? or well 3DS if it has to be portable. Strange world huge companies avoid systems with small userbase and small companies dont?! |
Are you talking about Vita? If so, they've barely developed for that console. 1 game released so far (a port); and two more in the pipeline (2 ports). The majority of their work releases on PS3, which I assure you doesn't have "no userbase".
And if so, it's quite simple. A company like Nippon Ichi make niche games, that appeal to a small portion of the game-buying audience. They budget their games accordingly, so they only need to sell 40-50k to break even.
As such, it doesn't matter if your userbase is 1 million 10 million. So long as you have the 40-50k+ people in there to make the game profitable, that's all that matters. The games they make rarely appeal to the general public, so sticking it on a console with a large userbase but without the niche they need would just be a terrible idea (for an example of this, see the sales of Conception 2 on Vita vs. 3DS. Not a Nippon Ichi game, but illustrates the same point.)
