Despair, for you might never get another Sakura Wars

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yeah that interview gave a lot of insight into how NISA is doing and how they operate.

I'm surprised you didn't highlight the part where NISA knew that Last Rebellion was a stinker and had to translate it anyway due to deals they made. The fact that they told their PR manager not to push the title shows what they were working with. From this they are rejecting Hitmaker titles until they find something that works.

I mean there are just so many good Japanator headline things in that article. They are only focusing on PS3 titles, they have a 360 dev kit and aren't using it, they are working on getting Toradora/Persona Trinity Soul on PSN, NIS has a 3DS dev kit now, and that translating Sakura Wars took longer than creating it.

The-Excel

I've been working on a blog that I think I can repurpose into how the things I like are often in exceeding scarcity.

mana

also, pair this news with the fact that NISA's other Wii game Phantom Brave only shipped 20,000 and I think that they won't be doing anything on any other platforms for a long time.

NilesRevenge

Craaaap. And here I was thinking that maybe we could get the earlier games. I bought NISA's release (not to mention Disgaea Infinite) and have gotten through a couple of chapters. Not bad, not bad, although my piloting skills are terrible. I'm glad I bought it when I did. I have a tendency to sit on rare games until they're out of print. For what it's worth, the Japanator review pushed me off the fence.

Now I feel bad for hating the dub dialog in the trailer. I guess I'll go back and listen to the dub voices eventually- having trouble hearing the Japanese voices without turning the volume up to bothersome levels.

(Had to make another account cause I can't get my password and the password retrieval seems to be getting swallowed up- I don't even have a spam folder to check.)

Tuskus

Wait, they expected this to sell?

Gee-Man

Damn, that's kind of depressing. Then again, they expected Sakura Wars to sell well in America? Even Suda 51, creator of Killer 7 and No More Heroes didn't expect to sell more than 100k copies of NMH1. You can imagine how orgasmically ecstatic he was when he found out it sold 500k. What's really sad though is that by any other standards, that still would've been terrible numbers.

I guess NIS has just been really unlucky in the past few years. I mean, have they ever had a hit series/cult classic other than Disgaea?

gricomet

This is very sad to hear, as Sakura Wars was very enjoyable and at the very least I was hoping it would inspire more such series to come over here. I guess it isn't a good time for the dating sim test case anyway with the anime market in hard times and a bad economy to boot.

The-Excel

@Tuskus:
Someone bought it.

occultangle

Sony has a strict policy of not letting good things come to America.

Arcade Ness

That's a damn shame. I was more interested in a new installment in the series, but that's not going to happen it seems.

Tim Sheehy

Spencer did a fantastic interview there.

king3vbo

Damn, I really loved So Long My Love, it was a great game/somewhat VN