| outlawauron said:
At least their relationship is good enough with some of those publishers to still handle some physical versions like Escha and Lody Plus. While it does stink for NISA to see great efforts of theirs go to waste in DanganRonpa and Atelier, it does force them to switch gears and pick up something like Grand Kingdom. |
Oh absolutely, I mean for us as consumers this is the best possible outcome. We're still getting Ateliers and Neptunias (faster than ever on the Neptunias actually) while NISA has to reach out into other things that we'd have never gotten previously - heck, I think DanganRonpa is an example of that (but Demon Gaze & Grand Kingdom are the other two I'd point to, absolutely).
The only thing we really lost out on was physical versions of the Ateliers, but they've even managed to fix that through their agreement with Koei Tecmo, absolutely.
I just can't but help feel sorry for them. I feel like a lot of the niche gaming we have today is largely down to them - Compile Heart/Gust wouldn't even have a name in the west if it wasn't for them, and there certainly wouldn't be an Idea Factory International.
Sadly N1 can't seem to produce another hit franchise for them to bring across either - Disgaea is great and all, but nothing else has really taken off (Witch & Hundred Knight might be it, finally, but I doubt it judging by the first game).
