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epik_fail1 posted...

Didn't Hi fi rush do fairly well? I feel like they shut down the studio when they were getting more and more brand recognition. That's dumb. Some franchises like Persona used to be niche and it sells tons of copies now

Yep we actually have a good deal of video game franchises throughout gaming history that managed to succeed after years of either legit bad sales, or just years of so-so/average sales. All it takes most of the time is for the IP holder to just not give up and possibly try again. Try harder with advertising, or trying out new strategies like letting social media influencors hype a game for you if it actually is a good game.

It always did pretty good in japan, but I bet a ton of younger gamers just do not know or remember just how small time IPs like yakuza, persona, fire emblem (hell we didn't even get a single one of these until marth and roy showing up in melee (who were stupid close to getting cut for all versions of the game out of japan) and their popularity with their character usage caused people to wonder about the game series they came from) or the big one final fantasy used to be. Hi-fi rush with it's one single game had a nice start all things considered, but nah its not some kinda' fortnite success right out the gate it ain't worth keeping around, =/ Just mad short-sighted/want that blockbuster success NOW instead of leaving that sucker in the pressure cooker for maximum tenderness, lol.

*Actually kind of pisses me off how bandai-namco treats the tales of series. This series actually had a few moments where it could have popped off (post symphonia, post vesperia, xillia 1's surprisingly good sales when it got localized, arise's success) outside of japan but with each moment of surprisingly good sales bandai-namco just sort of.....picks their noses and do nothing. No new ports, no quick collections, not a damn thing.

Better believe when final fantasy 7 blew up on the PS1 square was quick to make a ton of ports, small collections like the anthology and origins PS1 release, actually set up a EU branch so they can start getting final fantasy and other squaresoft games like with north america period, made a damn movie (which admittedly failed, but hey its the thought that counts lol) etc. Atlus/sega was quick to push with persona and yakuza when they finally popped off, nintendo does the same with fire emblem and xenoblade, but here is bandai-namco.......being bamco. Just had to rant real quick, lol.*