So I was thinking about Codename STEAM. It's like, ultra-bomba status (didn't even sell a bar's worth of its shipment in Japan), but still...
Perhaps I shouldn't have expected anything from it. My thought process was that it's Intelligent Systems, Nintendo-published. They had insane breakout success with Fire Emblem Awakening so I thought it would've at least had some appeal in the market through pedigree/genre.
But, Intelligent Systems also have Advance Wars which apparently sells twat all in Japan too. So maybe the problem is them. Unless they're making something with a more Japanese aesthetic, the market just isn't interested.
Still, I don't get how Nintendo convinced retailers to stock quite so many copies. That's quite an impressive achievement.
