Fatal Frame’s Lost Decade

[Rogerioandrade]

Ruler said:

Nuvendil said:
People saying they "drove the franchise into the ground" and even try to blame it on the censorship (which is pretty freaking light in all honesty) are really starting to bug me. Yes, the games have been commercial failures under their guidance. But guess what? Every. Single. Entry. Ever. Has been a commercial failure. Look at sales, the Fatal Frame franchise was and is a super niche franchise. All entries combined haven't even crossed .75 mil. And the franchise was in decline sales wise BEFORE Nintendo grabbed it. Stop looking for scapegoats and focus one what matters: you enjoy the games and they still exist, the latter of those two being a miracle in itself

the japanese numbers on VGchartz are wrong and you forgot to include FT4

it probably has sold over a million now. The Deception Series was a commecial failure but that hasnt stopped KoeiTecmo from making a new game in 2014 and localizing it digitally and physicley and making an expansion this year. KoeiTecmo games are nothing but commercial smaller titles.

Just because it sells less doesnt stop them from devoloping because those games never had a high budget

 

Even for Japanese standards those numbers are pretty low. No single game ever reached 80k. Sales in the West probably had more depressing numbers.

Not launching the series in the West after the third game was simply a financial matter: the sales projection wouldn´t match the investiment required in their localizations