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RUMOR: Ni No Kuni 2 headed to Xbox One (IGN ESPAÑA)

Okami Haundo

Okami Haundo

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Rough Google Chrome translation below. See full article for more:

It seems that the alleged leak of Ni No Kuni II: The Rebirth of a Kingdom as part of the catalog of Xbox One was very accurate. From the media specialist Xbox Generation point out that several sources of Bandai Namco claim that this JRPG will be in the console of Microsoft. However, it will only be in digital format .
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- Full article -

This will either be fake or I'll be a few minutes too late
 
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Shiggy

Member
The article is pretty inaccurate. Game is digital only and an import version appeared on Amazon.es? Supposedly other retailerd also put it up? Sounds more like they made that story up for some clicks.

The Amazon.es listing was an error anyway.
 
Goalus

Goalus

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apd_ng said:
Great for the 6 people who plays JRPG's on the Xbone
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If any Japanese game came to Xbox this way, it might expand the audience over time - which should be Microsoft's goal. Then suddenly it could be 12 people who buy the game. I think on 360 ~1M people bought Lost Odyssey.
 
Liliana Eileen

Liliana Eileen

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apd_ng said:
Great for the 6 people who plays JRPG's on the Xbone
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Dark Souls is not traditional JRPG but it has an extremely high user base on Xbox.

JRPGs will sell slow on Xbox, of course, but like Steam if they release a lot of games (even digital to start) the fanbase will grow and grow. The JRPG clubs on Xbox Live are over 100,000 deep which isn't bad since most people don't even know what clubs are.

Steamspy shows that even though some games sell in the thousands (abysmal), others sell way higher, and more JRPGs are starting to show a difference in newer game sales on Steam. JRPGs are a genre thay should be everywhere, IMO. Even mobile.
 
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Boke1879

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It says only digitally. With the other thread and how MS requires a minimum print. I guess this makes sense. They wouldn't expect a physical copy to sell much.
 
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JuanLatino

Member
maybe due the lack of JRPGS this game could get some extra attention and make a few people on the Xbox try it out?

tough a switch version would make much more sense.
 
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Keinning

Member
Goalus said:
If any Japanese game came to Xbox this way, it might expand the audience over time - which should be Microsoft's goal. Then suddly it could be 12 people who buy the game.
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Hope not, if it reaches two digits then i will no longer feel special

But yeah, i remember LO and BD receiving a small boost when they became BC and avaliable digitally as well. There's room for growth in the platform, as small as it can be. Just need more big titles hitting it instead of that... thing... that was released on the creators store.
 
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Zeta Oni

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Never thought id see the day a Level-5 JRPG made it's way to a Xbox console.

Between this and Monster Hunter World, I'm starting to get a little hopeful things could actually get better in regards to JP games on the platform.
 
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Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
MH world would have always come to xbox, because its capcom and the biggest IP Capcom has ATM. they want it to have a global audience like other IP of theirs
 
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Balfour

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I wonder what kind of incentives they were given to even consider releasing it considering the stigma for majority of Japanese creators on the Xbox

Maybe Xbox is covering port costs so they have nothing to lose if it does abysmal

I also wouldn't expect any extra enhancements over the Pro unless they were given incentive to do so.
 
Liliana Eileen

Liliana Eileen

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SgtCobra said:
Based Phil.
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I said this in the other thread and got gang-attacked by the usual suspects, lol. In reality, I wonder what Phil's trip to Japan actually did. Guess we will see. He did say there will be lots of cool unannounced stuff but then again what else would he say?
 
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Fisty

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Zeta Oni said:
Never thought id see the day a Level-5 JRPG made it's way to a Xbox console.

Between this and Monster Hunter World, I'm starting to get a little hopeful things could actually get better in regards to JP games on the platform.
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This close to release, and depending on when this hypothetical deal was reached, i'd bet it would be a port house doing the Xbox version. I'm assuming Level 5 has zero experience on Xbone.

Then again, who owns the IP?
 
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Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
Balfour said:
I wonder what kind of incentives they were given to even consider releasing it considering the stigma for majority of Japanese creators on the Xbox

Maybe Xbox is covering port costs so they have nothing to lose if it does abysmal

I also wouldn't expect any extra enhancements over the Pro unless they were given incentive to do so.
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a shit ton of money thrown in namco bandai's direction plus digital only takes the burden off of printing physical copies if it bombs.

only way i can see them okaying it
 
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otakukidd

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Still waiting for more sources and not just one from a shady website(not ign, the website ign got this from Xbox generation)
 
Mr Moose

Mr Moose

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I have a feeling there will be lots
10s
of people disappointed if this is all bullshit. People are acting as if its true based on a rumour from some random Spanish website which was based on Amazon Spain, who have since removed the page.
 
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Garcia el Gringo

Member
I've been skeptical about this being true, but if it's real I would absolutely support this. Digital only for non-blockbuster Japanese games on Xbox wouldn't bother me at all as someone who's gone completely digital.
 
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Balfour

Member
It's owned by Level-5, but Ni No Kuni 2's publishing is being handled by Namco, so that probably helps with getting it on X-box. Level-5 probably wouldn't have done it otherwise
 
Jawmuncher

Jawmuncher

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So at this point Phil's trip to Japan managed Ni No Kuni 2 on Xbox (Supposedly). Wonder what else he managed. Doubt he got Square to budge on any of their Japanese developed titles.

Balfour said:
I wonder what kind of incentives they were given to even consider releasing it considering the stigma for majority of Japanese creators on the Xbox

Maybe Xbox is covering port costs so they have nothing to lose if it does abysmal

I also wouldn't expect any extra enhancements over the Pro unless they were given incentive to do so.
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If MS was serious about getting more JP support. I could see something like that going on.
Even if they had to keep their terrible rule of (This many copies must be made). This year Xbox really missed out without the japanese titles to fill in their weak year.
While Sony on the other hand really benefited from it and the majority of the games aren't even true exclusives.
 
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Keinning

Member
it's already doubtful enough if this port is even real and people are already speculating one x enhancements? geez talk about optimism

just being able to play the game would already be great
 
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