Just had this conversation with some buddies, thought I would share this thought. Falcom is sitting on a bunch of very high quality RPGs and action RPGs which are natively on the PC. The Sora no Kiseki games are very highly regarded JRPGs, while the Ys series are really highly regarded action RPGs. These games have been out in Japan for years, and can now be bought for 10-15 bucks at any Japanese store selling PC games.
XSEED now has a license agreement with Falcom to bring over many of their PSP titles (most of which are PSP ports of above mentioned PC games) in English to the US. The PSP is pretty much dead in the US. While the games will sell decently (maaaaaaaybe) to the niche audience, there will be zero chance for large scale growth for both series in the US. Yet we are seeing stuff like this work out pretty well on Steam. Recettear is a 3 year old doujin game which just got localized and released on Steam. It is supposedly selling very well.
Imagine if XSEED decided to take the localization work on the PSP games they're working on now, and double dip on Steam as well, charging 20 bucks for each title. The userbase on Steam is so much larger that the word of mouth alone should make every single title a very decently sized smash hit. The titles will continue to sell too, and every time there is a sale on the titles, there should be another sales spike.
What do you guys think of this?
XSEED now has a license agreement with Falcom to bring over many of their PSP titles (most of which are PSP ports of above mentioned PC games) in English to the US. The PSP is pretty much dead in the US. While the games will sell decently (maaaaaaaybe) to the niche audience, there will be zero chance for large scale growth for both series in the US. Yet we are seeing stuff like this work out pretty well on Steam. Recettear is a 3 year old doujin game which just got localized and released on Steam. It is supposedly selling very well.
Imagine if XSEED decided to take the localization work on the PSP games they're working on now, and double dip on Steam as well, charging 20 bucks for each title. The userbase on Steam is so much larger that the word of mouth alone should make every single title a very decently sized smash hit. The titles will continue to sell too, and every time there is a sale on the titles, there should be another sales spike.
What do you guys think of this?