When it comes to capcom, it kills me to see MonHun doing so well in the west and getting retail releases. Since they kept pushing for it as the series went on. While on the other hand AA seems to have regressed and they try less with it.
Really???? Really????
By saying that you don't know the history of the Ace Attorney Franchise. When it was originally released in North America in October 2005, it sold a paltry 13,000 copies. The game sold so terribly that Capcom basically said the franchise was dead. For those of us who know that there were 2 other games in the series, this was a blow.
The people who bought the first 13,000 copies loved the game so much we wanted more people to play the game, so we let our friends borrow it, we bought multiple copies for our friends and family.
Something happened.....
Several months later, the first print run sells out. Then the game starts selling for sky high prices on ebay, so Capcom does an second emergency print run. They they did a third print run, and a fourth print run until the game sold over 140,000 copies. After that, they announced that they were localizing the other two games.
It was the hardcore fans who bought the first 13,000 copies who tried desperately to save this weird lawyer game they bought in October 2005. There was a period after the game was released that it was a sales bomb and it had no future. It was only because the fans were so determined to save Ace Attorney that they eventually released the rest of the franchise.
So for a franchise all about the turnabouts, it was the fans who did the first great turnabout.