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Kresnik on 21 August 2014
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DemoniOtaku said:

Phantasy Star Nova and Digimon are other two games that could be released next year. But the first depends on SEGA's mood and the second one on the sells of SAO and Tales of Heart R, this could end with God eater 2 releasing if Freedom wars proves tobe slighty popular between Vita's small market on the west.

And there's Toukiden Kiwami/Extreme, the first one seems to have sold well for them on the west (at least Tecmo-Koei were glad) so is highly probably...

Lots of games to look forward, I would be more positive about all of them, but the lack of support from SONY made me negative about the Vita on the long term. I really can't see little publishers supporting it beyond 2015 in the west. Sorry for being so "Doom and gloom" but SONY pretty much have killed Vita this year...


I hadn't forgotten about Phantasy Star, I just ignored it because I thought "there's not a chance in hell", lol.

Digimon I did forget about though.  I still feel like it's "not a chance in hell", but that petition is doing the rounds I guess.

I suppose if you'd have asked me a year ago whether I thought Sword Art Online; Oreshika & Mind=0 would release in the west I'd have said "absolutely not" yet here we are, so you never know.

 

As for whether niche publishers will support it beyond 2015, absolutely they will.  You have to think: what sales targets do these publisher have?  Most of them target tiny demographics of gamers.  So, for example, 3DS may have a much bigger userbase than Vita in the west, but are they the type of users who are likely to buy games like Conception 2 (which is the kind of stuff these localization houses bring over?)  NPD showed us that no, actually more Vita owners bought these games.

Besides, these companies need cheaply-licenced Japanese games to bring across in the first place.  At the moment, Vita is getting this support in Japan.  PS4 might take a little bit of that support, but no more so than PS3 is already taking from Vita, and we still get plenty of stuff.

And in addition, I think the release of PlayStation TV is only going to strengthen the position.  Now the gamers that these niche publishers target have a choice between playing these games on a home console and playing on a handheld.  I know for a fact, from the NISA forums, that there are some users who wouldn't buy a Vita to play these games but would buy a PS TV to play them.

Finally, is the situation actually going to get any worse?  Vita is selling just above 10k a month in the biggest gaming market in the world.  Yet the localizations keeps coming.  Last Aksys announcements?  Arcana Heart 3 & Tokyo Twilight Ghosthunters.  Last NISA announcement?  Hotaru no Nikki and Criminal Girls.

So I'm not worried about losing the localization houses keeping the stuff coming beyond 2015.  As long as it's coming in Japan, it'll keep coming to the west.



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