Super Icon’s Creative Director on Developing for Vita: “It has Financially Ruined me”

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Mnementh said:

Wright said:

Roma said:
3rd parties don't sell on Vita confirmed... wait that's pretty known right?

Well, Atlus has enjoyed profitabilty on the Vita.

With a remake. That's cheaper to develop. And a successful one.

Anyways, seems to be mainly the fault of the dev, not the Vita. He clearly states next time he uses a preexisting engine. Developing new engines for games is nowadays only a good investment, if you have a really big game that brings back the money or if you plan on releasing more games on the engine. Using a third-party-engine would have probably made the project cheaper to develop, and therefore profitability more likely.

I know Dragon's Crown was inspired by Capcoms arcade Dungeons and Dragons Beat em up. But I wouldn't call it a remake :p

Dragon's Crown Vita ver was the best selling digital title on PSN in 2013 (think this was just for Japan) across all PlayStation formats.