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Link_Nines.XBC said:
While the game is inherently niche, it doesn't help that Square-Enix barely marketed it, they didn't even show it at their E3 presentation, it wouldn't have hurt them to take a few of the 20 minutes they used to show Guardians of the Galaxy to promote TWEWY. A marketing deal with Nintendo would've been a good idea too (like how Nintendo promoted Octopath Traveler and the Dragon Quest games), though I guess that would've been possible only if the game was exclusive to the Switch. OT: People are willing to pay full price for Nintendo games. |
I think the problem is Enix tried to sell it like a Nintendo game, but isn't really like a Nintendo game. The original game still full price after all those years, a DS game I must to point out, a hardware that used to struggle to run N64 games. If you have a 15 years old game with no sequel and make the said game not-accessible (i.e. expensive, released only on DS and Switch) it's hard to build a enduring appeal and a steady fanbase
And yeah I agree the market was pretty bad. I'm all for all games to be released in as much system as possible but PS4 version flopped really hard on Famitsu, the original game was never released on Playstation and mostly likely the people who played the original on DS went for Switch
