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Touhou fan games will appear on PlayStation 4 and Vita
Shadowlupus:
I have only seen claims on Twitter so no hard evidence but allegedly, due to Scarlet Curiosity sales not living up to expectation, XSEED quits localising any more Touhou fangames.
People there also say that XSEED didn't even try to promote or advertise the game so that's why not many people know that it exists and buy it.
XSEED interviews about Scarlet Curiosity and other games.
http://neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1352494
EDIT: Currently at NeoGAF, there is an extremely heated debate whether ZUN is selfish for not localizing official Touhou games.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1375923&page=1
I hate this fandom sometimes.
Suwako Moriya:
--- Quote from: Kageshirou on May 18, 2017, 11:06:14 AM ---EDIT: Currently at NeoGAF, there is an extremely heated debate whether ZUN is selfish for not localizing official Touhou games.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1375923&page=100000
I hate this fandom sometimes.
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I don't have a link handy, but I recall that ZUN is on interview-record as saying that he would continue making games even if no one bought them anymore. Looks like a fair number of people in that thread are trying to apply common/Western game dev economic standards to ZUN and Touhou when they're not congruous at all.
That thread is also being fairly cruel to the localized fangames. Bullet Ballet was rather clunky and unimpressive (visuals aside) but I absolutely love the Gensou Wanderer/Double Focus combo. Both are fantastic games in their own right.
Colticide:
--- Quote from: Kageshirou on May 18, 2017, 11:06:14 AM ---I have only seen claims on Twitter so no hard evidence but allegedly, due to Scarlet Curiosity sales not living up to expectation, XSEED quits localising any more Touhou fangames.
People there also say that XSEED didn't even try to promote or advertise the game so that's why not many people know that it exists and buy it.
XSEED interviews about Scarlet Curiosity and other games.
http://neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1352494
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God this is why I've been trying to promote this game as much as possible! Out of many of the fangames its the easiest for a newcomer to get into as it's not full of touhou memes and is decently close to the actual story without changing a characters personality (Only one story issue is that people wont know who they are, and people wont get why the story doesn't have major importance). I might actually make a point of this in my review now that my LP is done. There is so much people don't understand about this game so they misjudge it because of other fangames.
Sorry that makes me mad that they wont give us the numbers for sales and just say "it didn't do as well as we hoped". Plus wow the hate for touhou games in that place. Its like these people don't understand how huge getting publishers to do anything with touhou. I need to make notes for these to better explain it to others. Xseed really don't have to give up... how about publish some games people would be excited for, like puppet dance performance or Koumajou Densetsu. Now I'm not sure who I'm more disappointed in, Xseed or NSIA, at least NSIA is still selling them.
--- Quote from: Suwako Moriya on May 18, 2017, 02:39:16 PM ---I don't have a link handy, but I recall that ZUN is on interview-record as saying that he would continue making games even if no one bought them anymore. Looks like a fair number of people in that thread are trying to apply common/Western game dev economic standards to ZUN and Touhou when they're not congruous at all.
That thread is also being fairly cruel to the localized fangames. Bullet Ballet was rather clunky and unimpressive (visuals aside) but I absolutely love the Gensou Wanderer/Double Focus combo. Both are fantastic games in their own right.
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Agreed, they don't seem to know ZUN that well sadly.
BB was fun except for its broken multiplayer but GW/DF is actually a lot of fun and my favorite of the ones NSIA has released so far.
mauve:
Publishers likely cannot give sales data in the granularity that you'd like to hear, tbh. There's a reason you only hear very vague statements as to how much X or Y sells, like "oh, it's over a million shipped! [aggregated over all SKUs so we don't have to say how many of each actually sold]"
It's not nearly as simple as people like to make it out to be. You can't just Localize It And They Will Buy. Marketing is huge and costly and expensive and absolutely mandatory for modern sales of any sort, up to and including putting stuff on Steam.
Really, though, we've been having this argument since the dawn of Touhou's western fandom though and it's as pointless now as it was then. ZUN's entitled to do what he likes. People are allowed to think of it what they like. If he feels like putting the games up, he will.
Colticide:
*sigh Yeah... the funny thing about marketing is they could have at least tried a bit, did more youtube stuff. I actually got a few of my viewers to buy the game which made me very happy! Feels like I did my job right! As long as these games keep coming out in the JPN store at least I'll still play them.