Comments on: News: Sakura Wars Now Has A US Release Date http://www.mechadamashii.com/news/news-sakura-wars-now-has-a-us-release-date/ New Spirit of Hot Robot Burning Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tollmaster http://www.mechadamashii.com/news/news-sakura-wars-now-has-a-us-release-date/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Tollmaster Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:21:39 +0000 http://www.mechadamashii.com/?p=1531#comment-428 I'm not sure if they could get the first--Sega is probably a lot more protective of the earlier games, and then there's the issue of releasing an older PS2 title even later in the PS2's lifespan, in a time where people keep expecting the PS2 to die but it keeps on ticking regardless. I don't have any hard or soft evidence for this, but I'm guessing that the Wii port, which doesn't make much sense otherwise, is both to see what kind of sales Nippon Ichi America can rack up on that popular but demographically strange system, and to test the viability of porting a PS2 title to the Wii successfully. Nippon Ichi in Japan seems to be spending the lion's share of their effort on the Playstation 3 and PSP, but both of those enjoy a lot less popularity in American than they do in Japan, so having their foot in the Wii's door, at least in America, would make a lot of sense for them. As someone who has powerlevel files in every Nippon Ichi game released by their American branch but Disgaea 3 because I don't own a PS3, I understand firsthand what their current situation is up against. I’m not sure if they could get the first–Sega is probably a lot more protective of the earlier games, and then there’s the issue of releasing an older PS2 title even later in the PS2′s lifespan, in a time where people keep expecting the PS2 to die but it keeps on ticking regardless. I don’t have any hard or soft evidence for this, but I’m guessing that the Wii port, which doesn’t make much sense otherwise, is both to see what kind of sales Nippon Ichi America can rack up on that popular but demographically strange system, and to test the viability of porting a PS2 title to the Wii successfully.

Nippon Ichi in Japan seems to be spending the lion’s share of their effort on the Playstation 3 and PSP, but both of those enjoy a lot less popularity in American than they do in Japan, so having their foot in the Wii’s door, at least in America, would make a lot of sense for them. As someone who has powerlevel files in every Nippon Ichi game released by their American branch but Disgaea 3 because I don’t own a PS3, I understand firsthand what their current situation is up against.

]]> By: Persona http://www.mechadamashii.com/news/news-sakura-wars-now-has-a-us-release-date/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Persona Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:29:41 +0000 http://www.mechadamashii.com/?p=1531#comment-425 Damn it, now I have to lug my PS2 back to Canada. It bugs me that there's so many games being released in March. Yay for Sakura Taisen though. Maybe if this does well, they'll do the first one too? Damn it, now I have to lug my PS2 back to Canada. It bugs me that there’s so many games being released in March.

Yay for Sakura Taisen though. Maybe if this does well, they’ll do the first one too?

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