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ZUN announces PS4 version of Touhou 14.5 ULiL
Lollipop:
I'm okay with this. The more fans, the better!
HalfGrand:
--- Quote ---The prospect of Touhou being console-exclusive just doesn't sit well with me, and possibly many others.
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This made me chuckle because when you really think about it, Touhou is a "console" exclusive. I consider PC to be a console and since Touhou is basically for the PC, it's a console exclusive. I welcome the move for TasFro to port their game to Playstation. Good on them for branching their game outside of the PC community.
To all you people who are worrying that ZUN is going to go big business because an official game is being released on Playstation, your worries are for naught. I don't see how releasing a game onto the Playstation store makes you a sellout. If anything, I hope that one day ZUN releases all of his games to mediums other than PC... spread the love and let Touhou grow bigger!
P.S - InB4 PS4 ULiL is only available on Japan Playstation store. :V
Shadowlupus:
This is definitely a BIG news. I also want to see what this additional content is. Maybe a new character/Urban Legend? That would be cool since IIRC, Spoiler: the Urban Legend is still continuing in the manga. Or we might get a challenge mode, or any interesting stuffs.
However, I have to bring up one interesting point.
IIRC, ZUN says that Touhou fighting games like IaMP, SWR, HM are considered to be semi-officials. Yes, he is the one making the story, dialogues, spell card names and other stuffs but Tasofro is also the one making the in-game background, animating characters' sprite and attacks so some of the in-game elements in the game cannot be used as reference (unless ZUN says so) like stages' appearance or what the skill/spell looks like.
So, this means ZUN is still circumventing the whole "bringing official Touhou game on the PS4" for now, as the fighting games are semi-official ones. I'm not saying this is bad thing. Who knows? he might be testing the water before moving on to bringing the genuine offical game on the PS4 in the future.
Drake:
--- Quote from: HalfGrand on February 27, 2016, 04:39:26 AM ---P.S - InB4 PS4 ULiL is only available on Japan Playstation store. :V
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It likely will be exclusive, at least to start. There's a reason none of the other Play,Doujin! material is currently available outside japanese PSN. I think it's safe to assume ULiL will go through the same if not similar channels.
--- Quote from: Maple on February 26, 2016, 05:22:45 PM ---Is it the (Japanese) market share of Sony or the ease to (re-)program software already made for PC, or something else altogether?
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Both, apparently. The PS4 devkit reportedly plays nicely with PC development, and just in general the Playstation userbase is large in Japan.
--- Quote from: Silent Harmony on February 26, 2016, 09:52:26 PM ---Remember how DDC on Playism JP and Playism US were supposed to hearken a new age of Touhou digital distribution? Yeah...
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We still haven't seen the results of this experiment, really. It's hard to say what will happen, but I don't think it's a realistic expectation for things to be released digitally right away, and nobody knows if releasing old titles was ever a plan.
Clarste:
--- Quote from: Drake on February 27, 2016, 05:20:10 AM ---We still haven't seen the results of this experiment, really. It's hard to say what will happen, but I don't think it's a realistic expectation for things to be released digitally right away, and nobody knows if releasing old titles was ever a plan.
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We haven't seen the results, but I think it's reasonable to assume that if they were any good we'd have seen them try to release LoLK at some point after it was released. I doubt it takes that long to prepare for distribution, especially since it didn't seem to have any real changes.