Tencent & Netease say Japan doesn't produce enough hit games and are thinking of pulling their investments
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Good thing I clicked on the tweet because I was about to ask, WTF are "hut" games? lol
Bruh I hadn't bought it yet but now idk if I want to since the devs aren't even gonna see the money
Maybe live service platform type games which is kinda true. Outside street fighter & monster hunter there’s not any major japanese live service. Sega failed, Square Enix failed, Bandai failed most live service are western, european or korea/china
Trials of Mana Remake reached 1 million copies sold on Feb 2021 in 10 months(release date of April 2020).
Visions also looking to open at a lower number than Trials of Mana in Japan based on pre-orders, although we'll know the actual numbers next Thursday.
At the same time, social metrics before the launch is looking to be weaker on Steam as well.
Will keep an eye on CCU during the weekend as it progresses but it looks to be less than Trials here too.
Basically all early signs point to Visions of Mana opening decently worse than Trials of Mana even though it is almost certainly a more expensive project(a remake vs the best a Mana game has ever looked in terms of presentation with seemingly more open environments).
No matter how you slice it, a regression like this is not good at all.
But really, I'm fairly sure that it's not really about the studio itself.
With giants like NetEase and Tencent, concentrating on their strength(GaaS, etc...) might feel like the best move for them and studios like this might just be a casually to shed some cost.
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Visions of Mana had a big spot on the Xbox Developer Direct (the only 3rd party there) so I didn't buy it and deleted it from my mind.
The game looked good but it was tainted with Game Pass fodder. Blame Xbox for killing Ouka
The game looked good but it was tainted with Game Pass fodder. Blame Xbox for killing Ouka
It's not only about their own performance but the performance of the overall region. It hasn't been great.
it wasn't on game pass though, and it looked decent. that's why i was looking at buying itVisions of Mana had a big spot on the Xbox Developer Direct (the only 3rd party there) so I didn't buy it and deleted it from my mind.
The game looked good but it was tainted with Game Pass fodder. Blame Xbox for killing Ouka
Well, aside from Square-Enix and maybe Sega I would have said that Japanesegames were doing pretty well recently.
I know but you know it's coming soon. There was no reason for it to be at the Developer Direct.
just because xbox marketed it? Console war brain rot.Visions of Mana had a big spot on the Xbox Developer Direct (the only 3rd party there) so I didn't buy it and deleted it from my mind.
The game looked good but it was tainted with Game Pass fodder. Blame Xbox for killing Ouka
nah, i dont play those types of games.Did you buy it or you're still playing Palworld