Is Sega finished with console retail? (GI.biz article)

[outlawauron]

JayWood2010 said:

outlawauron said:

 

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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

3DS

2014

Role-Playing

Nippon Ichi Software

0.17

0.05

0.26

0.02

0.50

If given the opportunity, Persona can sell on other platforms so it certainly isnt irrelevant.  PC is the most important thing here as well.  Japanese devs in general ignore Steam. I honestly believe if we saw the sales on PC that we would all be shocked.  And PC is a big platform and it shouldnt be ignored.  To me this is a japanese problem.  Japanese games more than any other makes more exlusive games and dividing their fanbases while ignoring others instead of expanding. 

To me Persona is in the same state as Kingdom Hearts and Monster Hunters.  KH would be big going multiplat but instead you get exclusives on PS, and exclusives on Nintendo, etc  Monster Hunters again, multiplat would be big.  But instead, we release one on Wii, and one on 3ds, and on PSP, and we are going to ignore the Vita which it was monstrously popular on PSP

But if SEGA is serious about going digital in the future, then they need to focus on releasing their content on PC instead of just consoles.  

You really think all ~500k of Persona Q's buyers all do not own a PS3 or PS4? If more platforms just splits the overall sales, then nothing is really gained. Persona 5 will do over a million. If it gets put on multiple platforms and does 1.3 million. It's not worth it. Persona isn't in the same league as KH or MH. While PC sales are certainly a wildcard, it's not a guarantee that existance on Steam leads to great sales.