Can't really think of a good reason not to port games to PC from a business standpoint. I look at Vanillaware's back catalog and I see a few games that could be cash cows on Steam. But if Vanillaware just prefers to stick to their guns and run out of money all the time.....
Yep, or even port some of their previous games to PC. Odin Sohere, Dragons Crown, etc could do well on PC platform.
They have to pay for porting and it’s not clear those costs can be recouped unless Microsoft is either paying for the port or it’s paying for GamePass or both.
It's a terrible deal because most of their games barely sell anything on Xbox, a platform that has educated its userbase into not buying games and just playing what you get on Game Pass. So unless Sega gets a Game Pass deal (which they got for the latest releases of P3P, P4G, P5R and P3R) for their titles, it is simply not worth it at all to release the more niche stuff, such as Vanillaware's games, on Xbox, for the same reasons the majority of AA and sometimes even AAA Japanese titles skip the Xbox platform.
Their games aren’t selling more in Asia on consoles. And JRPGs (pick a genre within) have been selling quite well on PC side for years now.
I dont. Not anymore. I love Vanillaware games and used to buy whatever they put out to support them but their decisions regarding platform releases have soured my opinion of them. Keep floundering and barely staying afloat I guess.
But wasnt the whole point of that strategic agreement, plus an unknown amount of cash, meant to cover those ports to Xbox?
Absolutely, and Sega benefited from such agreement.
Yep, unless SEGA is providing additional funding, which it looks like they aren’t, this is a bad deal for Vanillaware and other devs SEGA/Atlus publish for.
I once read that Vanillaware don't want their games to hit PC because they fear their propietary animation technologies and techniques might be reverse engineered or something like that, from either dataminers, modders or the competition.
I mean PS4 has been hacked, so have been PS2, PS3 and Switch. And they publish there.
Had they done early access on Steam it would have paid for the development.
Muramasa wasn't published by Atlus if it was we would gotten to modern systems by now.
It was on Vita though. It was a great way to play the game.
I actually wanted play it on proper controller because i didn’t like my Vita’s analog stick.
We really need a "cry me a river" type of reaction.
This is a game you play with the d-pad though. Vita has a really good and responsive d-pad, by far the best Sony ever made.
Yeah, I know. Same story with GrimGrimoire. But they can port Dragon's Crown Pro, Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir and 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim at the very least.
Those two games already available on PS4 which you can easily played on PS5, Muramasa in other hand is stuck on dead systems and it NEEDS to be ported to modern systems.
I've both Dragon's Crown Pro and Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir, but if they'll release them on PC, it'll be way more easier for me to sell the PS5. I don't want to keep the console for just these 2 games, even though I love them so much, it's just completely unreasonable.
Somehow I doubt it'll ever happen.
Small indie company pls understand.
This. . I own it on vita. And just bought it for my wife's wii from a 2nd hand shop last weekend for $25.
Yeah, great dev to support!
Which requires additional funding and risks distracting the team from what they are already focused on.
.Microsoft paid Sega to port it to Xbox
Releasing a port of a game like 13 Sentinels is hardly going to break the bank, while the ROI would probably be great. I dont personally care about the games coming to PC or not, as I own them already, but it makes financial sense when you are struggling with funding your game.Which requires additional funding and risks distracting the team from what they are already focused on.
Sometimes you are dismissive of what supporting PC releases mean and that is well..: port beggish
If you want it to sell, it would be better to have it Day 1. Say it releases in couple of years on Steam at $50/60 (higher outside US). Don’t really think it will have same sales potential?
In the MS world of spaffing money about maybe, but in a small company you need to stay focused to finish your project especially for highly creative and not bean counter driven studios.
Eh, that really depends. Do mostly console gamers have a gaming PC? Most likely no.
