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Sony becomes the top earning mobile game company in Japan

WRT Netmarble's Lineage 2 Revolution, is that the first time a game of their's have charted? I seem to recall Seven Knights and the Disney-licensed games doing fairly well.
 

Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
I know it's a bit an exaggeration compared to the contemporary use of the word, and I don't at all mean it in a derogatory manner! Amazing things have been done with the original concept, which coincidentally happened to be the best damn hero fantasy battle setting ever. If you tried to explain the roots of the series to the average (western) person on the street, however, you'd most easily describe it as porn.

"7 heroes and masters fight in a battle to the death for a magical artifact" = porn?

I mean, that's not really the case even when you describe it.

Don't realize Fate is most popular IP in Japan...is was alright anime.

The anime adaptions of Fate are just a small piece of the Nasuverse pie. They are not even generally complete. I personally would not even consider either the ufotable or DEEN adaptions anywhere near perfect despite having their pros and cons as individual works.


No I meant Kara no Kyoukai light novels literally don't haver sex in them. I think? Have never read. They came before Tsukihime. Calling that or FSN porn is fair enough I guess. People will know what you mean.

Yeah, KnK has sex in it. Pretty graphic actually. The ufotable movies actually censored the light novels in certain parts(movie 6 for example) cause it was a bit much.
 

ponpo

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Sony/ForwardWork's newest game cratered I assume. They quickly dropped off the dls list and never in top grossing; was it the same on the Play store?
Their golf game tho

At this point it seems like anything that wants to be a huge success needs to be both an established IP, both for because of popularity and ability to draw on a huge catalogue of whatever content to release.

Pls let destiny child prove me wrong so we get constant updates of qts.

Yeah, KnK has sex in it. Pretty graphic actually. The ufotable movies actually censored the light novels in certain parts(movie 6 for example) cause it was a bit much.

Oh ok.
 

Sterok

Member
Fate may be doing the heavy lifting, but I'm proud that Madoka is pulling its weight and then some. Hasn't had much presence the past few years, but the fans are still there, waiting for something to sink their teeth/wallets into. Localization fast please.
 

Aizo

Banned
Kara no kyoukai isn't porn.



FGO can have Shirou. Also Arc and maybe Tohno.
If I see news of Karen, anyone from mahoyo, or anyone else from tsukihime / melty blood, eternal ddosing of FGO servers will commence!
Mahoutsukai no Yoru? Never heard of it till now. PC only? What do you like so much about it?
 
It’s a great game. Best part about it is it’s really not P2W as even the freebie servants can clear most stages with the right setup. The rates are shit, mind you.

US/Global is getting the Halloween event Tuesday.

Oh, it's available in the US? Thought it was a Japan only game. I'll take a look, thanks!
 

Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
Mahoutsukai no Yoru? Never heard of it till now. PC only? What do you like so much about it?

Mahoyo is a visual novel prequel to tsukihime that shows a major turning point in the life of one of the more minor tsukihime characters. Great story, and art, and the music is also kick ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTGcpO2NsY

The production values for that VN in particular are off the charts, its so cinematic in quality in might as well be considered a movie in of itself despite being something you read. It makes the wait for the Tsukihime remake that much more painful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLf9oWUe2fc
 

HawthorneKitty

Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
At this point it seems like anything that wants to be a huge success needs to be both an established IP, both for because of popularity and ability to draw on a huge catalogue of whatever content to release.

Pls let destiny child prove me wrong so we get constant updates of qts.



Oh ok.
Azur Lane...
 

GLAMr

Member
You joke but this is an area they have years of experience in.

It was funny seeing ppl saying they should copy Nintendo, not knowing they have been doing mobile gaming years before Nintendo.
Who's joking? Isn't this a sign of the apocalypse?

In all seriousness, I think this was an interesting thing to learn for many of us. Now if only Square-Enix didn't charge such ridiculous prices for their mobile games...
 
"7 heroes and masters fight in a battle to the death for a magical artifact" = porn?

I mean, that's not really the case even when you describe it.
battle royale between 7 mages: not porn.

transferring mana between two people involves exchanging fluids done through sex with all your female friends and servant, at times involving "Rin's defenseless butthole": could be porn

little girl invaded by magical dickworms since childhood gives her magic powers: probably porn

the premise isn't porn but it gets porn-ish at times
 

bosh

Member
This is wild. Never knew they where such a big player in Japan for mobile. I assumed because of there semi lackluster NA performance they were behind the ball on this
 

notaskwid

Member
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orochi91

Member
Started playing Fate GO last week and it's so much fun; seriously addictive stuff.

Turn-based combat is truly the best for JRPGs.

U M U~~~
 

Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
battle royale between 7 mages: not porn.

transferring mana between two people involves exchanging fluids done through sex with all your female friends and servant, at times involving "Rin's defenseless butthole": could be porn

little girl invaded by magical dickworms since childhood gives her magic powers: probably porn

the premise isn't porn but it gets porn-ish at times

I mean that's not an overview of the series, just certain elements of it, and even then, the fornicating scenes you refer to were essentially rectonned by RN as said
 

notaskwid

Member
I know it's a bit an exaggeration compared to the contemporary use of the word, and I don't at all mean it in a derogatory manner! Amazing things have been done with the original concept, which coincidentally happened to be the best damn hero fantasy battle setting ever. If you tried to explain the roots of the series to the average (western) person on the street, however, you'd most easily describe it as porn.
I mean, is Game of Thrones porn?
 

Itsuki

Member
So this means that Type-Moon finally can finally continue developing Tsukihime remake and Mahoutsukai no Yoru sequel? Right? Right?!
I know it won’t happen because they’re now only making Fate /cries.

Anyways, I started FGO when it came out and stopped last year because I got bored. I returned back in June and now I play the game almost everyday. Events, story and battle system are fun. I’m having luck in gacha (got Merlin using free quartz) but the game still hasn’t a character that would make me crazy to get it. One of my friend spent more than 100,000 yen just for Sherlock.
 

Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
So this means that Type-Moon finally can finally continue developing Tsukihime remake and Mahoutsukai no Yoru sequel? Right? Right?!
I know it won’t happen because they’re now only making Fate /cries.
.

One day
 

Kumubou

Member
Obligatory "When's Melty?!?"
never

mobile isn't going anywhere is it? heh
I don't think some people realize just how deep the money pool is for mobile games in Japan. It's a market where you could have a game barely in the top 50 and still make decent money -- it's just that the games in the top 10 are making megabucks.

battle royale between 7 mages: not porn.
Now what if they made a proper Battle Royale game with the Fate license? I guess it would be based more on Fate/Extra (so you could have up to 128 master/servant pairs)... How much more than the infinite money they're making could they make? 🤔

And the description of Sakura's powers made me laugh... and then realize that whole sequence of events is rather gross. Then again, so are a lot of things that happened in the older games (the whole business with Kohaku in Tsukihime... yeah, how about no.)
 
Wasn't Animal Crossing Mobile supposed to release this year? Haven't even seen first screens from that yet. Point is, Nintendo really needs to step up in this market, because right now they haven't made a dent. I guess Fire Emblem mobile fell off the map
 

casiopao

Member
Wasn't Animal Crossing Mobile supposed to release this year? Haven't even seen first screens from that yet. Point is, Nintendo really needs to step up in this market, because right now they haven't made a dent. I guess Fire Emblem mobile fell off the map

Lol. FEH and pokeGo is still top earning WW bruh.
 
What a weird situation, it kinda shows that Sony's still a bit of a structural mess if they can be the number 1 mobile company but have barely any of it due to their actual game division.

As far as ForwardWorks goes, didn't Everybody's Golf do fairly well when it launched? I assume it's dropped off a lot since then if ForwardWorks is doing that poorly?
 

Kolx

Member
Does Sony also have a share in Colopl? And why is there other companies involved in fate\grand order? isn't the game fully owned by Sony?
 

Yohane

Member
I'll never understand the Fate series.

On the internet it's porn.

On the anime is some edgelord's fantasy battle royale.

On mobile is waifu lootboxes.

🤔
 
What a weird situation, it kinda shows that Sony's still a bit of a structural mess if they can be the number 1 mobile company but have barely any of it due to their actual game division.

Aniplex (which is under Sony Music) does production/publishing/merchandising for these two particular series, which comprises of more than just the games. The two games are also being developed by external studios. So no, not really a mess at all.
 
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