" who offered the highest minimum guarantee on a title by title basis"
Can someone explain this? minimum guarantee of what?
You've had almost a decade to "work on it" after the Persona games exploded in popularity, and you've continued to do nothing about it.
Here's a thought for you Atlus, Idea Factory International were using NISA to publish their games outside of Japan up until 2 years ago - now they're a more consistent publisher in the West than you are. They've got their own online store in the US and Europe which sells collectors edition games, they release stuff in both regions less than 1 week apart, they port almost everything to Steam. And they're doing it all off the back of a few mildly profitable Neptunia games. Take a long hard look at what they're doing and let it sink in why we're sick of your shoddy treatment of European customers.
Minimum gaurantee of money.
Whatever. It's not like there's a good localisation work for european releases in the first place. Most of the games came here in english only.
EU People will buy US Persona 5.
None of this would be a problem if Nintendo wasn't so fucking dumb.
Hard not to give this a clap. Well said.You've had almost a decade to "work on it" after the Persona games exploded in popularity, and you've continued to do nothing about it.
Here's a thought for you Atlus, Idea Factory International were using NISA to publish their games outside of Japan up until 2 years ago - now they're a more consistent publisher in the West than you are. They've got their own online store in the US and Europe which sells collectors edition games, they release stuff in both regions less than 1 week apart, they port almost everything to Steam. And they're doing it all off the back of a few mildly profitable Neptunia games. Take a long hard look at what they're doing and let it sink in why we're sick of your shoddy treatment of European customers.
Thanks SEGA!
Atlus have now been published in the EU by Koei, Square Enix, Ghostlight, NISA, Sega, Deep Silver, Zen United, PQube, and Nintendo. Every single one of those relationships, even the one with their fucking owners, didn't produce consistent and/or feature complete releases with the US. It's pretty clear that Atlus aren't a good company to work with. NISA did the best job, and now that's no more.
I can't fucking believe I'm gonna have to import Persona 5. In 2016.
I guess I'm importing P5 from the US.
Guys, what if P5 is region-locked, like Persona 4 Arena was ?
Oh god...
Can you get around this with a US PSN account or is the region locking related to the console itself?
Guys, what if P5 is region-locked, like Persona 4 Arena was ?
While Persona 4 Arena was region-locked, Ultimax was not, which was the last Persona related title to be released on console.
Despite the precedent existing, Atlus would be foolish to retread that line, especially for one their mainline self-developed flagship titles, rather than a fighting game which is more or less a side-game like Persona Q and P4AN were.
Can Atlus really afford to region lock one of their biggest games to be released even factoring the uncertainty of what European publisher they may decide to work with, and Sega's own lackadaisical approach in basically saying "Atlus can do whatever they want"
The whole situation just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Can Atlus really afford to region lock one of their biggest games to be released even factoring the uncertainty of what European publisher they may decide to work with, and Sega's own lackadaisical approach in basically saying "Atlus can do whatever they want"