I hope it never happens. I make too much money selling suikodens. Its lucrative.

Selfish I know, but thats how I feel.


The gods already stole ico marvel vs capcom 2 from me.


Let me keep this rare game rare.

I'm currently participating in a Phone-In Friday at my work. Not gonna do shit today.

Stealth so Stealth.

As someone who owns a copy of Suikoden II, I have material interests in this never happening.

Still, I would never sell it, and I want people to play GAEMZ.

@jim,

hey I said it was selfish. But Ive made ALOT of money selling suikodens, in fact someone just bought one of my suikoden II's for 200 bucks.

I enjoy money.

Capitalist me.

How bout Suikoden 5? I fucking love Suikoden 5. Although it's not on PS so S1/S2 would be great.

It took me years to find Suikoden II in the original case.

I'm waiting for Konami's new spokesperson, Jim Sterling, to make an official comment on this matter.

Yeah but its Konami, they don't seem to be able to hear or see very well any more. Hell, they can't even manage to properly store away old game code. So I doubt they'll be able to figure out what this is even about.

They'll probably take it to mean that people want Neverdead and Blades of Time on iOS then force the devs convertinging the games to completely redo them cause all they kept was the prettiest concept art.

@lewness

Suikoden V is great, but it takes 30 hours JUST to get going

Its a loooooonnnnnggggg

game


@chris

you should of spoke to me I have over 20 of them, I sell at various times and buy throughout the year

1. Make US PSN account

2. Order American PSN codes to your email from BestBuy

3. Enjoy your Suikoden

Did this to get Breath of Fire IV and FFtactics on my. Might order some more for Xenogears and Dino Crisis.

Suikoden 1 was already on the PSN though? Perhaps not for the Vita yet? I know I had it a while back.

What I want is the combo game they released that has 1 & 2 that they did for the PSP, just updated and downloadable for the Vita.

Gratned. I own every Suikoden game in it's regular format(Yes, even the abysmal DS one) but I'd still love them portable on my Vita for road trips :3

@Stealth

And just like that you made me wish that every existing copy of Suikoden were in a crate sitting on tracks with a train barreling towards them.

@boom

I buy low, sell high. Sales 101.

Each of my copies is close to mint to ie original case, art, disk in great condition.


Each time a new version is introduced into the market the value for existing copies decreases by 10-50 percent and if its released in multiple regions too

Because suikoden 1+2 on the psp was never localized and it was released in limited quantities, the prices for suikoden II, did not decrease, which was great

When marvel vs capcom 2 got re released in every region the price on the rare ps2 edition went down FIFTY percent, so I had to get out of that racket

Or how about, oh, I don't know, another numbered Suikoden game?

And Stealh finally explains his irrational hate for digital. Now I can take him even less seriously!

Its actually pretty rational. But my selling has nothing to do with my hate for digital. I actually like to own what I buy, and use it however I want.

But thats another issue


@myherozero

You should try the 2 gaidens of this gen they were really good

Heh, I have more Facebook followers on my Breath of Fire Fan Page than this Suikoden right now. I should mobilize them for a polite mass-posting on Capcom's media outlets.

@ Stealth

I might be one of the few people who enjoyed the DS Suikoden. I didn't think the PSP one got localized and I am not an importer.

@myhero

you arent alone, I felt the ds suikoden was better than 1,3,4... which is good.

I imported suikoden psp and it was even better than the ds game

Ah the jrpg. I remember a time when publishers wanted these in the west. Now I feel so old.

haha @stealth, I did that for a while too. Not specifically Suikoden but buying cheap rare games and selling high, after keeping 1 mint copy for myself. I bought an MvC2 for $30, but then got another one for like $5. It wasbeat up but worked 100% and i sold it for $80 and kept the perfect one. I own every Final Fantasy game there is for PS1 except the first chocobo dungeon. But i flipped FF origins, anthology, VII, VIII, and IX for like almost $200, when i got each game for like $10. I worked at a game crazy and after a while we couldnt take old school games anymore, so we were allowed to buy them off customers, outside the store of course, and i got SOO many rare games for dirt cheap. I miss those days severely.

*vomit*

@thompsons

more jrpgs have been localized than ever in the west this gen so I dont get your point.

@grim

I know right?

Its super lucrative and gamers ( no offense) they are so stupid they just buy at any price.

I make so much money flipping games. In fact its more or less paid for every system ive ever owned

But Jim, you're Konami's head of PR! Can't you intervene on their behalf!?

Knowing Konami, Stealth shouldn't have to worry about this happening.

Yo, yo, yo I got this copy of Earthbound I'm trying to sell. It comes with the guide and the instruction booklet. Also, Steve Jobs once farted on it in a Sbarro's in 1998. Bidding starts at $100.

Fuck Konami.

@joe ess

which is why I am not that worried

If they had plans to port suikoden II alone to anything, they would have already

Awesome. I'm in.

im with stealth on this one. i used to go out a couple days every week and hit up places that sold old videogames for cheap. eventually i ended up with so many copies of games that i decided to get rid of the excess and keep the best copy for myself.

while i originally did it for nostalgia it hit me that i was being stupid collecting a bunch of copies of the same game, so i would sell the rest. there was definitely a good amount of money being made selling these hard to get (at the time) games.

while i love digital releases of these titles because it means they will always be around, it killed the collecting for me. i no longer enjoy the hunt of finding the perfect copy anymore.

@stealth
If $200 is A LOT OF MONEYS... Umm go get a job and let the rest of us have our suikodens. Not to suggest that your selfish opinion would impact the campaign in any facet. I mean, it would appear that Konami has barely any concern for their own financial future. Certainly your future ability to fund year long supplies of ramen through sales of suikoden will be of no cocern.

@dto

I have a job, but I havent met a person yet who didnt wish they had more money.

Like I said Its selfish but thats how I feel on this issue, Id rather it not succeed but no chance in hell it will. Fan campaigns never and will never work

My bad, iPhone made a stupid. Jim, you should use your new position as head of PR for Konami to work a little magic. All you have to do is get around that can't-communicate-with-anyone-there issue.

@Stealth. It really doesn't seem like it. I remember back during the super nes era the JRPG was THE genre, sort of like the fps of today in the west. Jrpgs were everywhere and no one worried about getting them. Now adays gamers need to form petitions and operations to try and persuade publishers that there is a market here. Maybe its just nintendo but the fact that while baten kaitos came over easily last gen, xenoblade still required gamers to get out the torches and pitchforks still makes me fear for the genre in the U.S. I'm excluding handhelds though. Handhelds seem to be only place to reliably expect jrpgs(should probably have mentioned that, I apologize). Every generation it feels like less and less console jrpgs get localized.

@thompson,

but thats fact though.

The ds, psp, ios have more rpgs than the snes had. And the 360, wii, ps3 have a ton too.


"gamers need to form petitions and operations to try and persuade publishers that there is a market here. "

Then you werent appart of the fire emblem, final fantasy, dragon quest, megaten petiTions were you?

You dont remember how it was, but we get way more than we ever did back then

1) operation rainfall had nothing to do with us getting xenoblade

2) Nintendo this gen has developed and published more rpgs than any gen in there history. I dont really see an issue with them either.

I mean we get fire emblem now, we got a new golden sun, a new glory of heracles, pokemons, xenoblade, they published last story and pandoras tower, they published 4 dragon quest rpgs, they published 4 inazuma eleven rpgs, they pulished solatorobo, did 3 mario rpgs........

not sure what more you can ask for rpg wise........

In terms of this gen from the last

from xbox to 360 it increased in jrpgs, gba to ds increased, from what was on mobile to ios now? increase, psp had a megaton, gc to wii increased, the only system that went down was ps2 to ps3.

At least you are doing a good job, Jim, as Chief of Konami's Marketing and PR, by getting the good word out there.

I also liked DS Suikoden. And stealth is more devious than I thought.

@arkane, it would be devious if I thought of it first.

Never played these games, heard they were good, always wanted to try them. Always been confused as to which ones were in english and are released here.

I remember struggling to find good accurate info about these important speed bumps around 5 years ago maybe. After a while it became to much work and I gave up.

If these came out digitally at the right price on the right platform in the right language(for me), I would sure as shit give em a shot.

@bishma

some are better than others

II,III,V are the best main games

out of all the gaidens the rpgs this gen on the ds and psp are the best

1,4, tactics are skipabble

Oh I'm aware of the petition for fire emblem, in fact I was a supporter of the fire emblem 12 liberation army on Facebook. These petitions will have a very uphill battle, thats for sure. The fact that people thought that these petitions even needed to exist speaks for lack of faith in the industry for this genre from the consumers. No one is scared if the latest fps will show up in the west or not. I've visited Sernes forest, a fire emblem fan site quite a bit and people were scared about the lack of announcements of FE13. Where the hell is fire emblem 12 for that matter? There is also the Tales of series(a personal favorite) that seems to require fans to express intense interest and help push sales in order for the next one to even have the chance of coming out in the west. Plus if Oprainfall had no affect on xenoblade than why did nintendo tip toe around the issue before it was apparent that lots of people clearly wanted it? Why did nintendo of america say that they didn't want to showcase the game at e3 because they had no intent to publish it? Why was the game produced in limited quantities as a gamestop exclusive if publishers had faith in jrpgs?

please Suikoden II, III, IV, Tactics, Tierkreis, and Genso Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki pleae!!!!!!!!

As a representative and chairman of the fictional Brown People for Suikoden Movement, I approve this message.
Also, V is the best, shots have been fired.


But really Konami, give me II on PSN, it's the only one I don't (legally) own, and I don't want to spend $150 buying it from assholes.

@steve

weve had petitions for rpgs since the nes era.

I started one for megami tensei 1, guess what it was 15 years later before even 1 of those titles were localized. Now? They all are/

I mean look at persona 2 part 1. It took 15 years to get localized but it happened this gen

"No one is scared if the latest fps will show up in the west or not."

And nobody is scared an rpg will show up in japan.


Your very very confused

FE 12 - was the port of 3 on the DS. Thats not coming

But FE 13- Which is really FE 11. The newest entry, is getting localized first quarter next year.

In terms of tales, more tales have been localized this gen than any other.

"Plus if Oprainfall had no affect on xenoblade than why did nintendo tip toe around the issue before it was apparent that lots of people clearly wanted it? Why did nintendo of america say that they didn't want to showcase the game at e3 because they had no intent to publish it? Why was the game produced in limited quantities as a gamestop exclusive if publishers had faith in jrpgs?
"

1) Nintendo doesnt announce things immediately. No company does.
2) What they said is they had nothing to say on the matter, not that they had no intent in publishing it, which obviously they did.
3) If you didnt realize it, the wii is being phased out.


You dont believe me? believe xseed who localized last story

When asked and I quote " Did operation rainfall have anything to do with your decision to localize this game?"

Answer: Not at all

@Stealth: So you're saying that video games are about money than art for you?

I hope it does happen. I've got a few copies of both S1 and S2, but I love them enough that I want more people to experience them. Share the love and all that jazz.

Luckliy US accounts work just as well in Europe. Still, best of luck to them.

Heya Mr. Sterling, this is Ryan, and admin of the SRM. Thanks so much for the coverage. Everyone make sure to check out the page, as well as some of the garme journalizm that I do in the documents section of the SRM. It helps explain why Suikoden is such a great series, and why it is so hard to accomplish anything positive with the current state of the industry.

@daniel

why cant it be about both? If 99 percent of the game industry wasnt about money we'd have no industry

For me its only about 40 percent, which is pretty good.