| badgenome said: I'm not sure how else they would judge demand other than by sales, so I don't really see a problem with it as long as their expectations for a very niche game like Oreshika are reasonable. But Sony should have already learned their lesson about this when they declined to localize Demon's Souls only for it to go on to be a million seller for Atlus. There's money in the right kind of RPGs. |
It's just frustrating because Sony have been responsible for some really enjoyable JRPG's over the years, only for their support of the genre to come down to "buy this game or there might not be any more!"
I mean, to me Oreshika looks great, but it's niche as hell. It'll struggle to sell well in the west compared to something more globally-orientated like Legend of Dragoon or Rogue Galaxy just because it is filled to the brim with Japanese culture stuff which isn't mainstream over here.
It'd be like Sony telling Ape Escape fans "buy the new PS Move version or we won't make any more platformers!"
... except that already seems to have happened :'(
