Media Create Sales Jan 20 - Jan 26

[noname2200]

RolStoppable said:

noname2200 said:
Gungho's not the first mobile developer to make a lot of money on handhelds, specifically the 3DS. Angry Birds sold far better than it should have, for example.

But I doubt Squeenix in particular is going to change course anytime soon: they've been into mobile gaming since long before it became cool in the West, and have only been sliding more and more in that direction. In light of their practices I have to wonder how successful they actually are, financially speaking, and their apparent heavy reliance on whales to keep that segment going strikes me as a dangerous long-term strategy, but I suspect they'll continue to have fewer handheld games this generation than last.

Angry Birds isn't relevant though. Western third parties would at best just look for a quick buck with overpriced straight ports; Japanese third parties don't care. Puzzle & Dragons Z is a different case.

What do you mean by "whales"?

Everything I've heard of Puzzles and Dragons, at least the mobile/tablet version, makes me think it is precisely the type of game that videogames should never, ever aspire to be. It's a scam based on nickel and diming the player, or the meth dealer who tells you that the first one is free...

As for "whales," it's a common term used to describe an individual who drops an enormous amount of cash. I believe it originated in casinos, where celebrities would swing by to special high-stake rooms and lose millions of dollars in mere hours. It's now also used in gaming to describe the player who spends hundreds or thousands of dollars on a single game, whether by purchasing all the overpriced DLC (think of the many games where you can buy an outfit for $1...and there are thousands of outfits) or simply using the game's "pay to win" system (P & D)