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Very glad this is getting a chance to live. I will buy it even if it's 'normal' full price at launch.
I wonder if the vita version will be $40 while the ps3 version will be $60.
That would be stupid...
-_-;
That would be stupid...
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The only thing I dislike about Atlus' business practices is that (until recently) never reduce the digital copies of their games when NEW physical copies are reduced. Hopefully they figured that out. Other than that, fantastic! I love you guys :)
It's a Vanillaware story, so I have to comment. ...
So George Kamitani and Ciffy B walk into a bar. Cliffy B notices George and immediately bursts into tears, begging forgiveness for suddenly realized sins. Cliffy's fractured mind becomes a deep, terrible well of horrors of which there is no escape but the shining light of the ascendant Kamitani, who has meanwhile sat at the bar, ordered a drink opened a tab. Ciffy B implores George for help, his only response summoning Guru fully formed from his brow to rap "You Know my Steez" directly into Ciffy B's soul. Finally, George, Guru and Cliffy embrace in the clear, joyous understanding that there is no way forward. Ciffy erupts into a brilliant and violent flame, returned to creation in the universe encapsulated by the wise glinting of Kamitani's wide, celestial eye.
Dragon's Crown is looking pretty good.
So George Kamitani and Ciffy B walk into a bar. Cliffy B notices George and immediately bursts into tears, begging forgiveness for suddenly realized sins. Cliffy's fractured mind becomes a deep, terrible well of horrors of which there is no escape but the shining light of the ascendant Kamitani, who has meanwhile sat at the bar, ordered a drink opened a tab. Ciffy B implores George for help, his only response summoning Guru fully formed from his brow to rap "You Know my Steez" directly into Ciffy B's soul. Finally, George, Guru and Cliffy embrace in the clear, joyous understanding that there is no way forward. Ciffy erupts into a brilliant and violent flame, returned to creation in the universe encapsulated by the wise glinting of Kamitani's wide, celestial eye.
Dragon's Crown is looking pretty good.
Is the cost/sales ratio really so static that increasing the cost allows for more profit? I would think that a game sold for $30 would sell vastly greater than that of a full retail cost game. Anyone on the fence would be much more likely to bite, and their looking for affordable experiences would have an easy choice.
Just read the wikipedia page on it. UVTI made it sound like a 2D brawler, but in fact it's a multiple-path action brawler with RPG elements and multiplayer? Definitely more robust than the PSN Arcade game I thought it was. Will definitely drop $60 down on this baby: 2013 can't come soon enough anymore.
I would pay $60 for the PS3 copy, if it meant I also got a digital copy of the game for VITA. That would be pretty awesome, though paying $50 for the PS3 copy and getting the VITA copy digitally would be even more awesomer.
That dragon is mesmerizing.
I paid full price for Muramasa on the Wii (full price being $50) and I would do the same for this (someday when I get a PS3.)
I paid full price for Muramasa on the Wii (full price being $50) and I would do the same for this (someday when I get a PS3.)
@Arttemis
My guess is that they have an idea of how many copies a Vanillaware brawler title will sell.
Vanillaware titles are generally what I'd call niche. They aren't going to be breakout multi-million copy sellers. And the game is a sidescrolling brawler. I'd assume, at least on a console, that is a genre with non-standard price-to-sales chart, where somewhere around the $10-$20 point, you've shed all the casual buyers and are left with a hardcore audience that will accept higher prices for the genre.
As for the costs, Vanillaware games probably aren't cheap. They've also got a dual-platform development going, even if it is sister systems.
My guess is that they have an idea of how many copies a Vanillaware brawler title will sell.
Vanillaware titles are generally what I'd call niche. They aren't going to be breakout multi-million copy sellers. And the game is a sidescrolling brawler. I'd assume, at least on a console, that is a genre with non-standard price-to-sales chart, where somewhere around the $10-$20 point, you've shed all the casual buyers and are left with a hardcore audience that will accept higher prices for the genre.
As for the costs, Vanillaware games probably aren't cheap. They've also got a dual-platform development going, even if it is sister systems.
If the developers would either make the women less buxom or the men more sexy, I'd be more willing to pre-order.
So by insuring a higher price point they are injuring a larger volume of gamers are going to skip it at launch and pick it up on sale....
The alternate, saturating it with DLC will insure that a larger volume of gamers avoid the hell out of it all together......
Why is it so hard for them to grasp the whole sell low, make money on VOLUME of sales. Instead they keep taking what would be an impulse buy and turning it into an impulse buy a year or so down the road.....
The alternate, saturating it with DLC will insure that a larger volume of gamers avoid the hell out of it all together......
Why is it so hard for them to grasp the whole sell low, make money on VOLUME of sales. Instead they keep taking what would be an impulse buy and turning it into an impulse buy a year or so down the road.....
Mind you that is more for a digital distro model, one can likely justify near 39.99-49.99 for a physical release. still If they sold it at the lower end they could probably rake in way more sales than the higher end.
Atlus saves the day once again.
This is seriously great though, because this game looks amazing. But these release dates, man. I can't even tell how much I need a game like this NOW.
This is seriously great though, because this game looks amazing. But these release dates, man. I can't even tell how much I need a game like this NOW.
great now we dont have to worry
now its xseed and vanillaware we have to worry about with grand knight history
now its xseed and vanillaware we have to worry about with grand knight history
Atlus is the best developer and publisher of this generation in my opinion. The things they have done make me smile and I look forward to more great games. With so many companies going to the gutter they are my shinning beacon. I <3 Atlus.
@Takeshi
"One can never get angry at Atlus. NEVER."
Nah, I still remember Atlus' various PS1-era Persona shenanigans.
"One can never get angry at Atlus. NEVER."
Nah, I still remember Atlus' various PS1-era Persona shenanigans.
Well, that delay and price pumping will be acceptable if i finally get the game. I'm waiting for it since the first time i saw some art designs on japanese sites.
Disney has been buying a lot of things... they may grow up to be one of the world's greatest super powers.
I completely loved Muramasa and it's awesome that this game is still coming out... but to be honest, I kind of hope they decide to also port it to another platform somewhere along the way. I don't see myself getting a Vita any time soon.
Whoever thought a PS3 game would retail $30 is delusional, so there's nothing to be angry with at Atlus; we should be grateful they took over bringing Dragon Crown instead.
No digital copies though Atlus, I won't be able to buy it that way.
No digital copies though Atlus, I won't be able to buy it that way.
I'll be looking forward to its released, delayed though it is...unless the women are made less buxom while the men are made 'sexier'(for those who don't dig themselves the shirtless musclebound dwarven barbarian types).
I'd be all for the addition of a pretty boy or two but I've got no allergy to idealized feminine forms in the game, no more than I do against all of similarly idealized (and dressed)men in any of the other beat-em-ups and hack-and-slash games out there since the pixels started to resemble the concept art.
If they do tone things down on the female front in stereotypical Disney fashion,they might as well change Dragon's Crown into an adaptation of Tarzan or just go straight for the likes for Fake or Gravitation while they are at it.
I'd be all for the addition of a pretty boy or two but I've got no allergy to idealized feminine forms in the game, no more than I do against all of similarly idealized (and dressed)men in any of the other beat-em-ups and hack-and-slash games out there since the pixels started to resemble the concept art.
If they do tone things down on the female front in stereotypical Disney fashion,they might as well change Dragon's Crown into an adaptation of Tarzan or just go straight for the likes for Fake or Gravitation while they are at it.
I really wish they would just release these games on the pc, I don't have a ps3 and I don't plan on getting one. But two of these games are on my top 20 games ever.
More then thirty bucks isn't an issue for me. Hell, I'd pay full price for more Vanillaware awesomeness.
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