In a recent Siliconera interview with Xseed's President Jun Iwasaki and Director of Publishing Ken Berry, there's a tad bit of tit for tat over what would need to happen in order for Retro Game Challenge 2 to leave Japan. Ken says the original game needs to sell 20,000 more copies for the sequel to come to the States, where Jun says the game needs to sell 100,000. When you're throwing out random numbers regarding huge business decisions that have clearly not been given much prior discussion, why not shoot for the moon, right?
On a more serious note, I want Retro Game Challenge to be localized in a bad way. I loved the original game, and from what I've seen, the sequel is even better. If I weren't knee deep in game reviews, or sober, I might just launch a "Buy Retro Game Challenge and I'll bake you cookies" contest or other such nonsense.
Stay tuned to this channel for other such nonsense.
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7:20 PM on 06.24.2009
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I'll get mine.
Maybe I'll buy my lady one...
How many "Hail Mary"s should I recite?
And it is one of the few games that I put down after 5 minutes, and ran out and bought. It's that enjoyable.
And watch the original show. Arino is a living saint among gamers.
I've only noticed this game at GameStop. Is it even sold anywhere else? That might be one reason for the low sales.
Just a wee bit of advertising in the first place would help too. Hardcore people are going to know about it anyway, it's the retards that buy Imagine <insert thing> and Carnival Games bullshit that need to be made aware of it to sell more. That the Mama games or Imagine Ponies sell better than RGC is a fucking travesty.
If these guys think there's a buck to be made on localizing a game they'll bring it over regardless of how the last game performed. It's slightly more relevant here since at least they're fear mongering about the sequel instead of some other game that got middling reviews upon release in Japan and doesn't even look that interesting in the first place. But isn't pulling the localization hostage card on the same game twice a bit over doing it?
How about we all boycott these games until they stop threatening everyone. Profit motive is inherent to a capitalist (or quasi-capitalist, as we have it here) system and no one needs to be reminded that products that sell well are more likely to have similar products released in the future than ones that sell poorly and put their producers out of business.
I also emailed XSEED to show them some RGC love, and asked about the possibility of #2 heading our way. They basically said what they said here...many more copies need to be sold to justify the localization.
The first one was brilliant, but it's still criminal that they made blowing in cartridges a menu option and didn't use the DS mic.