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NEWS: Experience Unveils Yomi wo Saku Hana RPG for Xbox One

Guess it will also be available on PS4 a bit after the release.

I also wanted to note that Stranger of Sword City is also coming out in the US on Steam in June.

Cetais wrote:

Guess it will also be available on PS4 a bit after the release.

Idk...it says exclusive rather than console exclusive...most companies specify now days.

As mentioned, Experience is a small studio. They don't need a lot of sales even in Japan to make money. If even just one-half of 1% of the approx. 20 million XB1 consoles sold so far buys Yomi wo Saku Hana, the game would had already paid for itself.

Seems ya guys aren't familiar with Experience, a small studio that Xbox supported.
Experience has always published for the Xbox platform since many years ago.

The only reason their XB1 game Stranger of Sword City comes to PS Vita and Steam is due to NISA porting it.
Unless somebody again ports this, Yomi wo Saku Hana will be published by Experience only for the Xbox platform.

As mentioned, Experience is a small studio. They don't need a lot of sales even in Japan to make money. If even just one-half of 1% of the approx. 20 million XB1 consoles sold so far buys Yomi wo Saku Hana, the game would had already paid for itself.

Nevertheless, there's a good chance this would go on the PC too, even if not ported. But it won't be on Steam - it'd be on the Win10 PC store. Microsoft has been marrying the Xbox and Win10 platform and marketplace, and any game it can encourage releasing on both platforms going forward.

enurtsol wrote:

Seems ya guys aren't familiar with Experience, a small studio that Xbox supported. Experience has always published for the Xbox platform since many years ago. The only reason their XB1 game Stranger of Sword City comes to PS Vita and Steam is due to NISA porting it. Unless somebody again ports this, Yomi wo Saku Hana will be published by Experience only for the Xbox platform. As mentioned, Experience is a small studio. They don't need a lot of sales even in Japan to make money. If even just one-half of 1% of the approx. 20 million XB1 consoles sold so far buys Yomi wo Saku Hana, the game would had already paid for itself. Nevertheless, there's a good chance this would go on the PC too, even if not ported. But it won't be on Steam - it'd be on the Win10 PC store. Microsoft has been marrying the Xbox and Win10 platform and marketplace, and any game it can encourage releasing on both platforms going forward.

Some of that is not right.

Stranger of Sword City came out for both 360 and PC in 2014. They then ported it to Vita the following year. We got the XBO port this year with Experience Inc. self publishing it, cause NISA ≠ Xbox.

The Vita and PC versions we get are enhanced from their original release, but they pretty much match what the XBO version is.

Though you are right about Experience Inc. liking Microsoft's platforms. They've even said that they have 5 planned XBO games for a Western release over the next few years. I'm happy to see this small team releasing more niche Japanese games for us Xbox users.

I'm sure these newer games will get ported to the Vita sometime down the line. I'm totally expecting to see a Vita game or two get port to the XBO.

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typo fixes.

darkdeath174 wrote:

Though you are right about Experience Inc. liking Microsoft's platforms. They've even said that they have 5 planned XBO games for a Western release over the next few years. I'm happy to see this small team releasing more niche Japanese games for us Xbox users. I'm sure these newer games will get ported to the Vita sometime down the line. I'm totally expecting to see a Vita game or two get port to the XBO.

Lol. this will not happen, if a vita game ever gets ported to a console it will be the ps4, but not the xbox one.

I also don't get the rationale for the xbox release, unless they have some deal with MS, I would never waste resources on developing a jrpgs exclusively for it. Who cares if they only need a small amount of sales to survive, a game company is there to make profit, so just because they could make a game on the xbox it would still make more sense to put it on the ps4 or 3ds instead.

As mentioned, Experience is a small studio. They don't need a lot of sales even in Japan to make money. If even just one-half of 1% of the approx. 20 million XB1 consoles sold so far buys Yomi wo Saku Hana, the game would had already paid for itself.

enurtsol wrote:

As mentioned, Experience is a small studio. They don't need a lot of sales even in Japan to make money. If even just one-half of 1% of the approx. 20 million XB1 consoles sold so far buys Yomi wo Saku Hana, the game would had already paid for itself.

It doesn't matter if it's a small studio. If you are targeting the Japanese market releasing on the XBox One does not make sense.

They're not just targeting Japan - atypical of small J-developers, Experience has had abroad outlook and actually wants to sell these in the West, so they think globally for the reasons I postulated above.