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Persona 5 Japan sales. Best selling entry in the series for first week sales
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Go play any of the old ones? They're all well received.
It's also the worst selling in the franchise. I can see why they would be hesitant.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Overwatch is sold on waifu.
I think the trick is to not draw attention to it, let the fanbase do it themselves naturally.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
I was referring to them producing with the west in mind. Because bumping the ages wouldn't change that much if you don't change it tonally as well.
And as you said, Catherine is a new IP, it didn't have the same expectation going in as a Persona game would've.
encephalon
Member
Good God, no.
The dungeons in Persona 1 are perhaps the most dull of any game I've ever played. The Devil Summoner games on Saturn were better.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
I'd say Persona 2 has the most interesting story compared to the other Personas, not saying P3 and P4 were bad, it's just that P2 was very interesting.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Persona Q was awesome and one of my favourite games on 2014. Too bad about broken ailments but I found it super, super enjoyable.
encephalon
Member
Yes, specifically Innocent Sin.
Persona 3 and 4 don't pander otaku that much. If they've managed to get the cult status they have at GAF and the english speaking press is because the game doesn't compromise it's writting in order to pander to otakus. It's fanbase and their waifu wars doesn't make Persona reputation any favours.
If the game was full of fanservice you wouldn't have people saying in this thread they they felt they were saying farewell to an actual group of friends when the game ended. You can't achieve this without good writting. And relying in fanservice usually comes at the cost of the writting.
What is going to hold the game back the most is that somehow Deep Silver isn't willing to translate Persona 5 to EFIGS.
artsi
Member
English
French
Italian
German
Spanish
Which is weird, because Catherine got that treatment and Deep Silver is big enough to do it.
They want the game out for US launch, so that's probably why.
artsi
Member
+ translating Catherine to 4 languages is still far away from translating Persona 5 to just one.
And Catherine is a much much smaller game than P5 appears to be.
Localizing a game like that in EFIGS would probably only make sense financially if they knew the game was going to be a hit. Unfortunately Persona and SMT aren't as big as they should be in Europe.
Well english is already down, why would they not just use the US track?
As for the other languages, even SE has just taken to using the english version in European territories, i guess its faster turnaround
ChasingComets
Member
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Deep Silver merely publishing? Localisation work is still done in-house by Atlus USA.
The western release isn't until Feb 14, 2017.
Well remember that Persona 5 Was Originally Going to be About Backpacking Around the World so high-school setting is not a sure thing.
Most probably games do this. I mean, At least that's the impression I get when I play japanese games that have an English dub and a Spanish sub.
I understand it. Japanese to European lenguages translators must be more expensive since there isn't much people working on those combinations.
Sorry, but do get it right that the european version will have only japanese with subtitles?!?
EFIGS is the just the abbreviation, no one is asking for a new English translation.
SE is releasing English-only titles when they don't expect the games to sell well to begin with. It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, though, since it limits the appeal in big markets like Germany and France.
In this case, I expect it's a combination of cost of localization and a lack of time. If Atlus would work
closer with European partners early, translating into some of the more important languages might be possible, but the way Europe is handled, this would go hand in hand with a long delay. And, well, that delay would probably cancel all of the positive effects a localization could have had anyway.
Heckler456
Banned
As someone with no official source whatsoever, I can still confidently say that no, that won't be the case. That'd be completely ludicrous.
Unfortunately, I think we'll only get the English dub version.
EFIGS is the just the abbreviation, no one is asking for a new English translation.
SE is releasing English-only titles when they don't expect the games to sell well to begin with. It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, though, since it limits the appeal in big markets like Germany and France.
In this case, I expect it's a combination of cost of localization and a lack of time. If Atlus would work
closer with European partners early, translating into some of the more important languages might be possible, but the way Europe is handled, this would go hand in hand with a long delay. And, well, that delay would probably cancel all of the positive effects a localization could have had anyway.
Very great point made in all respects.
Modern Persona otaku pandering is more subtle, it's more, high-school wish fulfillment more than anything. It's in the way the character talk and interact with you, the chick-magnet aspect.
It's hardly something that would put off anyone at first sight unlike something like Compile Hearts games.
I dunno, seems to work fine for Mass Effect too. Maybe the real trick is to include enough husbandos as well?
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Very few games hit what Persona 5 did in their lifetimes these days, even less so on consoles. It's a good number.
EFIGS is the just the abbreviation, no one is asking for a new English translation.
SE is releasing English-only titles when they don't expect the games to sell well to begin with. It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, though, since it limits the appeal in big markets like Germany and France.
In this case, I expect it's a combination of cost of localization and a lack of time. If Atlus would work
closer with European partners early, translating into some of the more important languages might be possible, but the way Europe is handled, this would go hand in hand with a long delay. And, well, that delay would probably cancel all of the positive effects a localization could have had anyway.
Makes me wonder how profitable Chinese translated games are in Asia. We get many of these but note that they're not really catering to the China market, since not all games get released there. I believe it's mostly the Taiwan and Hong Kong market. Singapore doesn't seem to get all the Chinese releases.
You forgot musicals and theme parks.
Omnistalgic
Member
Nah...don't like handheld devices. Went through 2 vitas and a 3ds
Persona 3 FES and the original Persona 4 are both available on PS2 and as PS2 classics on PS3 if you've got either of those.
GhostTrick
Banned
I dont think ressources are the problem for Atlus. Higher ups are just close minded to not even acknowledge Europe.
Atlus's problem is "as long as it sells well in Japan, we don't care". They're no smaller company than NIS, IFI or Spike Chunsoft.
Humdinger
Gold Member
Nah, I'll just go with P5. I don't own the equipment to play the earlier ones. If it turns out I like P5 a lot, I might circle back to play the others. At this point, it is a mystery to me what the Persona games feel like. I'll just start with P5 and see how it goes.
spatenfloot
Member
If you don't like Persona, then you probably won't like Persona.
At least 80% percent of the Chinese market is mainland. Roughly 3-4 million PS4 and Xboxone are sold in mainland China while Taiwan and HK simply don't have such install base. Although mainland China don't use traditional Chinese, most people have no problem reading it.
You'd have to be more specific about what you don't like about the other games.
But it seems to be more of the same with a slicker execution and more depth, so I'll say probably not.
Don't exaggerate.
There are more than 80 games that sold more than 340K on 3DS, WiiU, Vita and PS4.
Without 3DS it's a much lower number (less than 20) because 3DS is the only system this generation that performed sales-wise as a market leader should do in Japan albeit now it is in its dusk days.
mrmickfran
Member
I liked Q as well. I just find it funny that it did better than a game that it's based on.
Gai Murakumo
Member
Great job. Hopefully sales in Japan keep up after the first week. Worldwide this is going to sell like hot cakes I believe compared to previous entries.
Its kind of annoying that there is no same sex dating in P5.
I guess they don't want their game to attract the yaoi ''fujoshi'' crowd ?
As if media with no actual same-sex relationships in it doesn't already attract the yaoi crowd anyway.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Same idea.
Sometimes, if not most of the time, media that doesn't intentionally made for it ended up attracting more fujoshi than the one does (though it's not rare for the sequel or the next iteration of it to change it course to suit that demographic).
Imp the Dimp
Member
Etrian Odyssey IV or P3/4? I'd say these three games are better than Q but I liked the game all the same.