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This comes from Cubed3. The full interview will be posted in a couple of days. For now, we have some interesting pieces of information.
Firstly, Yamagami expressed his disappointment about the poor sales of Disaster.
However, Disaster may nevertheless have a future, possibly on the DS.
Interestingly enough, the concept for a sequal is already in place, but bringing it to life won't be that easy.
Monolith appears to have more than one project underway, and for fans of BK (like me), they'll be pleased to hear that Baten Kaitos may return.
Interesting stuff. Seems a lot of it rests on Nintendo's decisions.
Firstly, Yamagami expressed his disappointment about the poor sales of Disaster.
First up some bad news: Given how Reginald Fils-Aime does not seem to be Disaster's biggest fan, waiting on sales of the game to come in before green-lighting a US release, the obvious question had to be about how the game has performed so far. Sadly Hitoshi Yamagami, Producer at Nintendo, confirmed many people's worst fears. Unfortunately it seems that the game is "performing lower than expected". He did go on to state that "Regardless of the region, "'DISASTER' can be enjoyed by any consumer that loves 'disaster' style movies." So perhaps Reggie should take that into consideration and appease those in the US grieving over the possibility of not getting their hands on such a highly entertaining game.
However, Disaster may nevertheless have a future, possibly on the DS.
There is some hope for the future of Disaster, with fans potentially set to see Raymond Bryce make a return. Whilst discussing the Day of Crisis' various gameplay approaches, Keiichi Ono, Director at Monolith Soft, let the following slip, "...there were so many wonderful options [ in the game ]. We would like to see the possibility for them, if we have chance to develop the sequel..." Interestingly enough, Ono-san also mulled over the idea of a DS version when asked, responding by saying the team "can consider [ a DS version ] if we have many requests." He did say, however, that the game is obviously more suited to a home console because of the grand nature of its premise, but at least the suggestion was not completely dismissed.
Interestingly enough, the concept for a sequal is already in place, but bringing it to life won't be that easy.
Yamagami-san later went on to confirm that a concept for the sequel is already in place (Disaster: World at Crisis anyone?), yet it will go no further than that early stage unless fans raise their voices and gamers rush out and buy more copies of the original.
Monolith appears to have more than one project underway, and for fans of BK (like me), they'll be pleased to hear that Baten Kaitos may return.
Finally, it was hinted at that Monolith has more than one Wii project underway, plus the team is "willing to start developing Baten Kaitos" when given the go-ahead.
Interesting stuff. Seems a lot of it rests on Nintendo's decisions.