IcaroRibeiro said:
Mar1217 said:
Octopath Traveler II finally getting to the million copies sold milestone. The first game did it in it's first month of sales while this one took 3 months.
It's enjoying better sales than Triangle Strategy and Live A Live but those two weren't as big in scope projects as this was.
Kinda glad it achieved such but personally, the less than stellar marketing, the more crowded RPG market and the fact the first game didn't leave a great impression on part of the crowd. Those are factors which did not help this game to perform on the same level.
Hopefully, if there's other games in the series or anything Team Asano related, Square won't shy away from doing a better job with their presentation of them. Also be more wary of their platform of choices.
I feel like this hasn't been discussed because of the "games benefit more from being on all the platform" discourse when it comes to the 3rd party exclusivity deals. But this is one case where I think, Nintendo should've kept this franchise on lock on the console side of things while also doing the marketing themselves.
They are a prime example as to how some games can actually benefit from these exclusive deals. |
How could this game be possibly benefited from being Switch locked? Are you implying Switch owners only buy games that are Switch exclusives ? |
I think you're missing the second part where they talk about doing the marketing themselves.
They're essentially suggesting that Nintendo publishes the game, which they've done in the past with some games like Monster Hunter Tri and Bravely Default. If the game was Nintendo exclusive then they would be more apt to market it, since they'd get a cut of every sale. But, if the game is launching at the same time on PS5 or whatever, then they have less incentive to market it.
Can't say if that would have made sense in this particular case. Hopefully 1-1.5 million sales will be enough to keep them making these games. Haven't gotten around to this yet, but Bravely Defauly, Triangle Strategy, and Octopath have really scratched the old school RPG itch as series like Final Fantasy have essentially become action games.
