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This Week in Games - Birthdays the Beginning

This sequel refocuses the roster on some of the more obscure characters in the canon—from Atrocitus to Captain Cold—but screw all that noise because Gorilla Grodd is in this game and that's just the best.

a new game on a console

It might not be the runaway mainstream that the Wii was, but it seems people are actually interested in buying games for the platform,

I mentioned last week that I'd begun setting up a Windows 98 PC for old games, and the project's pretty much done at this point. I'm still shifting parts around and messing with various drivers, but that screamin' Pentium III 500MHz is doing its job and I've got a fresh classic gaming station.

We're extrapolating this based off a three year old game that is already available for the WiiU? I'm sorry but the Switch is going to need more than ports of current and past gen games to look like a strong system....and people port begging for Smash 4 on the Switch are not helping with this.

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I mentioned last week that I'd begun setting up a Windows 98 PC for old games, and the project's pretty much done at this point. I'm still shifting parts around and messing with various drivers, but that screamin' Pentium III 500MHz is doing its job and I've got a fresh classic gaming station.

Was using VirtualBox on your main PC not considered, if I may ask? Modern computers are surprisingly open to virtualisation. I was able to natively run some old DOS games without having to rely on an emulator, to give but one example.

At least port begging for Nintendo games makes sense. I'm getting kinda fed up with the people on Neogaf begging for a port of Persona 5 onto Switch even though a good deal of them admitting to owning a PS4. Why this much demand? Handhelds make sense for games that are fit for short bursts like platformers, fighting games, or yes, Mario Kart, but a heavily-involved RPG that most say takes 80-110 hours to complete, not so much. I mean, I would think most people would want a more normal sized screen to look at if they're planning on gaming for a few hours at once. Then again, as that pre-movie commercial in theaters makes fun of, some people seem to enjoy seeing a movie in theaters but end up staring at the tiny screens of their phones instead.

The most popular RPG franchise of all time is a handheld exclusive... Persona only gained strong momentum in the west with Persona 4 Golden, a handheld release. Every prior Persona game has also received a portable version. Atlus Japan doesn't make Vita games and Sony isn't going to make another handheld. It's not really a stretch to ask for Switch.

Except not a single main Persona game (Q doesn't count) has ever been on a Nintendo console. Also, there's no way Persona's popularity didn't soar until Golden, the Vita barely made an impact on the US whereas the PS2 is the highest selling console of all time so it's safe to say the vast majority of the US fanbase played it there. I mean, I love my Vita, but I'm totally accepting of the reality of how badly it did in the US.

Also, your first comment is super vague. I'm not sure what one would say is the most popular RPG in the US (and if you're implying Pokemon well that's kind of a different beast and it's only a handheld exclusive series because Game Freak is close-minded as they're said they want players to not give up on trading with real-life friends, which is annoying as I've played all the games and traded like maybe twice total) but in Japan it's Dragon Quest which is not a handheld exclusive series.

Finally, just as it's annoying when people want Nintendo's consoles to die just so hypothetically they'll make games for Playstation and/or Xbox, it's just as annoying for Nintendo fans to port beg for game series that have never been on Nintendo systems. Like you know, maybe let the other two console buyers have some exclusives of their own just like Nintendo and if you want a particular game that bad then buy the console it's already out on?

-Those are international numbers for the Golden article. Also, Persona was definitely well-talked about before Golden came out, it's just that there wasn't much on the Vita at the time of Golden's release so naturally it will sell well for a Vita game. Not to mention Persona 4 was also available on the PS3 digital store.

And IX was the best-selling but not by a massive margin or anything and it doesn't change the fact that the series has many games on both consoles and handhelds.

I just don't understand what sort of situations require long hours of playing handhelds on the go. Sure, for a person driving long hours to a vacation spot (assuming they're not the driver) or for some who has to fly a lot for business reasons but beyond that long RPGs with heavily-involved enough mechanics (particularly if you can't save everywhere which is how Persona games are unlike Pokemon where you can save anytime outside of a battle) don't seem like the most ideal game for games outside.

That's quite the statement to make especially since Nioh came out, and if we're talking multi-console exclusives (so not counting PC ports as they're usually inevitable) then Nier Automata just came out as well. Even if third-party exclusives are becoming less common there's no evidence they're going to disappear completely and as I said there is still no precedent of a main Persona game coming to Nintendo. They've got Shin Megami Tensei games and several spin-offs with Devil Survivor, Strange Journey and TMS, you know just MAYBE they could be content with that? I don't see Sony fans demanding for all those games.

At least port begging for Nintendo games makes sense

but a heavily-involved RPG that most say takes 80-110 hours to complete, not so much. I mean,

The era of exclusive third party games is over.

Every Vita game has to have a PS4 version.

Pretty much every Japanese game that isn't on 3DS gets a PC port now.

The proof that third party exclusives are dying is ... the entire games industry. Even Persona 5 isn't an exclusive. It's on PS3 and PS4!

There wasn't a mainline Shin Megami Tensei game on PlayStation hardware until Nocturne.

Then there was a mainline Shin Megami Tensei game on PlayStation hardware. Who's to say Persona 5 won't be the same thing for Nintendo platforms? The conditions are actually favorable to it happening.