| Vena said:
I can't imagine the dev costs for either IV or Untold were all that high so the the 200k-300k sales aren't terrible, are they? I don't know what you can exactly expec from a game that has effectively not changed since its inception. Its still the same Nocturne-style navigation, one-view combat, etc. The only that's really changed is the 3D animated sprites. Unless 2DX suddenly changes up and freshens the stale IP and stale development therein, I doubt we'll see explosive sales ala FE: Awakening vs. previous FE installments. |
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad thing. They should be thankful they have such a dedicated fanbase which turns out to buy all the games.
It's just, Atlus seem to have been looking at expanding a lot of their stuff lately. All the Persona animation/spinoff games. They've tried to expand Etrian Odyssey, too. It was a yearly franchise until IV which took 2 years, and then they tried to expand the audience by making it more story-focused with Untold. But it was still being bought by the same core audience, it seems, since sales stayed exactly the same.
