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NEWS: Idea Factory to Release Omega Quintet Game in N. America, Europe in Spring 2015

As much as I love the fact Idea Factory is bringing this stuff over...the sales will be bad.

Jajanken wrote:

As much as I love the fact Idea Factory is bringing this stuff over...the sales will be bad.

Why do you say that? It'll be an early JRPG on the PS4 with the similar art style to Neptunia. So long as IFI isn't expecting 100's of thousands of sales, they'll be fine. Publishers of Japanese games don't aim to get millions of sales, they aim to make a profit.

I know the concept of the game is good it's the platform and release method that will create a loss. The game is exclusive to PS4 and there are physical copies being made which ,while awesome, usually results in barely meeting quota or even not meeting it mainly because nowadays no one wants to buy physical copies of these kinds of 3rd party games. Digital is the way to go. I can't say for sure if the sales will be horrible mainly because it's unknown to me what percentage of PS4 gamers actively purchase Jrpgs or 3rd parties for that matter but we'll see.

I know the concept of the game is good it's the platform and release method that will create a loss. The game is exclusive to PS4 and there are physical copies being made which ,while awesome, usually results in barely meeting quota or even not meeting it mainly because nowadays no one wants to buy physical copies of these kinds of 3rd party games. Digital is the way to go. I can't say for sure if the sales will be horrible mainly because it's unknown to me what percentage of PS4 gamers actively purchase Jrpgs or 3rd parties for that matter but we'll see.

bs, most people are still buying hard copies. Most console games sold are still on the hard copies side. Digital market is very small for console gaming.

In North America, it's 25% by the start of 2015, while expected to be 50% by 2018.

enurtsol wrote:

In North America, it's 25% by the start of 2015, while expected to be 50% by 2018.

Keep in mind 2 things about this:
1) These are sales estimates, and estimates are often inaccurate, more so the further out it's predicting. 2018 is still 3-4 years out, so you can only put so much faith in those numbers.

2) Even if the predictions are spot-on, then 50% of console game sales will still be physical copies. Until that 50/50 split is reached, it's still accurate to say that most console game sales will be physical.

Will digital sales eventually outpace physical? Quite possibly in the not too distant future, but that still doesn't mean they're not worth doing for niche titles like this. A good number of fans of IFI and NISA games are collectors, meaning they will tend to prefer physical over digital releases regardless of the current majority trends.