Both are to blame, Kojima for going way over budget and constantly pushing it back and Konami for pulling the plug before letting them finish (or just not letting them finish the story) and for just being complete arseholes about everything Kojima.
KojiPro are dead now anyway so they are THQ tier.
@Multi
The same applies to every game this year, TR isn't going to be an exception, it might break the million mark, if it's heavily discounted in January, but with December usually being a weak month when it comes to sales, and the PC version's release date close, come the end of January, I'd take that bet (not that Square would tell us anyway).
@Software_Lover
The first month for the reboot was 3.4 million (most of that was probably in the first week too), then sales fell massively (like pretty much everything else does, but a few), there's no reason this will be any different.
If Square put it on sale all the time like they did with the reboot and don't screw up the PC release, it should do fine in the long run, but Square have really shot themselves in the foot with this one, and potential...
The Reboot was one of the best selling TR games ever, so it was on the up, after years of garbage, which lead to it needing a reboot.
Probably 1-2 million copies sold on just 360, it was around the 6 million mark with PC, PS3 and 360 combined, before the remaster pushed it to over 8 million.
RoTTR probably didn't even break a 100K on the 360.
Having $1000+ consoles on the market would quickly kill them, and be completely unprofitable too, as Sony, Nintendo and MS would be losing hundreds, if not thousands with every sale.
They should always just shoot for low-mid range, take a small hit on the price and help devs with optimizing their games, as best they can. Trying to out-power modern high end PCs, would be pointless as by the time they actually release, PC hardware would have already moved way past them
Ni No Kuni 2 might go to NX at some point, but until then it's a PS4 exclusive. It probably won't go to PC or Xbox, none of Level 5's 50+ games have.
Well It is hard to call someone immature, when they use "ponies" as an insult, you really don't get more mature than that.
Could be, that dialogue system showed up in TLoU: Left Behind, so it wouldn't be the first time they try something in their current game, to improve upon it in the next.
It did sell well on the DS actually, look it up, sold better than the PS3 version in places, they just also put it on PS3.
And Ni No Kuni was probably too demanding for the Wii, and too expensive for the Wii U to justify.
It is PS4 exclusive, doesn't mean it will be forever. Sony aren't publishing it either so they don't have the final say.
Like I said above NX seems likely, the series started on a Nintendo platform and Level 5 have a great relationship with them, I don't see it going to Xbox or PC though, Level 5's games never do.
@DarkBlood
The difference being that the person you borrowed it from did pay them, they mightn't get a penny from you, but the did for that copy you're playing.
They almost definitely wouldn't care in the slightest, it still requires a good enough PC to stream them, so I doubt many are going to run out and buy one just to play them on Xbox through streaming.
I think NX is likely, Ni No Kuni started on the DS, so there's history there.
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I seriously do think you're are a MS plant though, your comments always read like ads. if you do get paid though, good for you I guess, most do it for free.
Yeah, blame Sony when it's Square, that'll show them!!
We still don't know (officially) what SSM's main team, Bend, Sucker Punch and Guerrilla Cambridge's main team (just that it's a high profile, multi-million selling franchise) are doing, Sony are holding onto a few things still.
Sony always suck at pacing their conferences, even at their legendary E3 conference, it wasn't all that well paced. They should have put the FF7R gameplay where Ni No Kuni 2 was, and move Epic's game to where that was, ending with Ni No Kuni 2, still wouldn't have blown the roof off, but it'd be better than a CG trailer for a moba.
Ni No Kuni 2, FF7R, Ni OH was worth it though, all looked great, Uncharted 4 probably did too, but I closed my eyes and muted the ...
Yeah, he was the best thing about Arkham Knight for me, and it was nice to see his Joker one last time.
There's been one in development for ages now, called Timesplitters Rewind, or something. Dev team are just part time though, so development is slow.