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UltimateUnknown on 10 January 2013

Decent chance it might do well over there if it has good fighting game mechanics (Not just recognisable characters).

Believe me Japan is the land of fighting games. Like 90% of the fighting games ever produced is in Japan and people over there love to play them highly competitively. So if PSABR has good mechanics to be played competitively, it might have some legs over. I personally don't know, so someone who has played the game could comment on its mechanics. I'm hoping its not a carbon copy of SSBB.



 

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chidori-chan2 on 10 January 2013

Probaly will flop HARD.




saicho on 10 January 2013
spurgeonryan said:

Or will Japan love it and give it legs? Releases in two weeks.

 

spurgeonryan said:
Japan loves interesting titles though. Maybe this can at least help spur( no relation) interest in Vita over PSP over there?


one can dream

 

bananaking21 said:

GoW 3 did 400k in japan, GoW might be bigger there than we think

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/06/17/god-war-series-worldwide-sales-show-god-war-iii-at-the-top/

That's not true. SCEJ number includes all asia territories.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/news/120605_05.pdf

GoW is as small as others think in Japan.



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

think-man on 10 January 2013

I hope so cause its a great game but I don't think it will sell more than 20k first week and will probably end up selling 45k all up in japan.



 

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JoeTheBro on 10 January 2013
UltimateUnknown said:

Decent chance it might do well over there if it has good fighting game mechanics (Not just recognisable characters).

Believe me Japan is the land of fighting games. Like 90% of the fighting games ever produced is in Japan and people over there love to play them highly competitively. So if PSABR has good mechanics to be played competitively, it might have some legs over. I personally don't know, so someone who has played the game could comment on its mechanics. I'm hoping its not a carbon copy of SSBB.


It is very different from Smash and designed with competitive play in mind. Most people either love it or hate its mechanics.

Personally I think Kat might be out when the game comes out so she could even be included on the cover. Might do ok.



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JWeinCom on 10 January 2013
JoeTheBro said:
UltimateUnknown said:

Decent chance it might do well over there if it has good fighting game mechanics (Not just recognisable characters).

Believe me Japan is the land of fighting games. Like 90% of the fighting games ever produced is in Japan and people over there love to play them highly competitively. So if PSABR has good mechanics to be played competitively, it might have some legs over. I personally don't know, so someone who has played the game could comment on its mechanics. I'm hoping its not a carbon copy of SSBB.


It is very different from Smash and designed with competitive play in mind. Most people either love it or hate its mechanics.

Personally I think Kat might be out when the game comes out so she could even be included on the cover. Might do ok.

No, it's not designed with competitive play in mind.  If it was I could play 1v1 online without having to add someone to my friend's list. :)



JWeinCom on 10 January 2013
UltimateUnknown said:

Decent chance it might do well over there if it has good fighting game mechanics (Not just recognisable characters).

Believe me Japan is the land of fighting games. Like 90% of the fighting games ever produced is in Japan and people over there love to play them highly competitively. So if PSABR has good mechanics to be played competitively, it might have some legs over. I personally don't know, so someone who has played the game could comment on its mechanics. I'm hoping its not a carbon copy of SSBB.

Look up some sales for fighting games in Japan.  What they have is a very passionate fighting game community, but not a very large one.



JoeTheBro on 10 January 2013
JWeinCom said:
JoeTheBro said:
UltimateUnknown said:

Decent chance it might do well over there if it has good fighting game mechanics (Not just recognisable characters).

Believe me Japan is the land of fighting games. Like 90% of the fighting games ever produced is in Japan and people over there love to play them highly competitively. So if PSABR has good mechanics to be played competitively, it might have some legs over. I personally don't know, so someone who has played the game could comment on its mechanics. I'm hoping its not a carbon copy of SSBB.


It is very different from Smash and designed with competitive play in mind. Most people either love it or hate its mechanics.

Personally I think Kat might be out when the game comes out so she could even be included on the cover. Might do ok.

No, it's not designed with competitive play in mind.  If it was I could play 1v1 online without having to add someone to my friend's list. :)


It's designed for 2v2! Regardless, they are patching in 1v1 online just to make you happy :)



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JWeinCom on 10 January 2013
JoeTheBro said:
JWeinCom said:
JoeTheBro said:
UltimateUnknown said:

Decent chance it might do well over there if it has good fighting game mechanics (Not just recognisable characters).

Believe me Japan is the land of fighting games. Like 90% of the fighting games ever produced is in Japan and people over there love to play them highly competitively. So if PSABR has good mechanics to be played competitively, it might have some legs over. I personally don't know, so someone who has played the game could comment on its mechanics. I'm hoping its not a carbon copy of SSBB.


It is very different from Smash and designed with competitive play in mind. Most people either love it or hate its mechanics.

Personally I think Kat might be out when the game comes out so she could even be included on the cover. Might do ok.

No, it's not designed with competitive play in mind.  If it was I could play 1v1 online without having to add someone to my friend's list. :)


It's designed for 2v2! Regardless, they are patching in 1v1 online just to make you happy :)


Do you have a link to where they say that they're adding 1v1 via patch?  Haven't heard anything about it.  That's good if it's true, but if they were really making it for the competitive community that should have been in there from day one.  Honestly, how can you say that your game is made for the competitive community, and then limit the ranked mode to FFA battles?  Anyone who has been around the fighting game community should know that 1v1 is the standard, even in games like Smash which do allow for 2v2.

Honestly, I can't really see how PSASBR is any more competitive than Smash.  Combos seems to be the only thing that might make it so.



MARCUSDJACKSON on 11 January 2013

i think Sony All Stars will do well i'm sure. i'll give it 60-100k



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