Top 5 Marvelous Titles
With the two updates they've managed to slightly improve the game's 2 star rating on Amazon jp and they do have additional content planned via expansions. From my point of view their best course of action is to stop selling the expansion and give it for free, to ensure the long term health of the game especially as the summer starts to become packed with releases. Overall it could have been worse but I don't understand publishers not delaying half an year and releasing a far better game which in turn gets much better WoM and legs.
Hope they don't repeat the same mistake with Rune Factory 5, the game is poised to become their biggest launch and will likely ship close to 1 million in it's first month WW(Olive Town managed 700K). It always seemed like their higher caliber release, so I guess it's where they've invested while cutting corners on Story of Seasons. Should be the biggest third party game launching this quarter beating out Resident Evil: Village which seems to be trending towards a result well bellow 250K this Quarter across the PS4/PS5. I also don't have high hopes for Scarlet Nexus being the Bandai Namco game that finally manages to surpass 250K on the PS4.
It's funny when both Capcom and Bandai are launching high profile games aiming for graphics to end up with Rune Factory 5 as the one that is going to make waves in Q2. But it's basically the tale of Momotaro last holiday.
- [DS] Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness (2007) - 304.660
- [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Marvelous) - 269.842
- [3DS] Harvest Moon: A New Beginning (2012) - 264.042
- [3DS] Harvest Moon: Linking the New World (2014) - 259.111
- [NSW/PS4] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 227.674
With the two updates they've managed to slightly improve the game's 2 star rating on Amazon jp and they do have additional content planned via expansions. From my point of view their best course of action is to stop selling the expansion and give it for free, to ensure the long term health of the game especially as the summer starts to become packed with releases. Overall it could have been worse but I don't understand publishers not delaying half an year and releasing a far better game which in turn gets much better WoM and legs.
Hope they don't repeat the same mistake with Rune Factory 5, the game is poised to become their biggest launch and will likely ship close to 1 million in it's first month WW(Olive Town managed 700K). It always seemed like their higher caliber release, so I guess it's where they've invested while cutting corners on Story of Seasons. Should be the biggest third party game launching this quarter beating out Resident Evil: Village which seems to be trending towards a result well bellow 250K this Quarter across the PS4/PS5. I also don't have high hopes for Scarlet Nexus being the Bandai Namco game that finally manages to surpass 250K on the PS4.
It's funny when both Capcom and Bandai are launching high profile games aiming for graphics to end up with Rune Factory 5 as the one that is going to make waves in Q2. But it's basically the tale of Momotaro last holiday.
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