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CatMuto wrote:
Fact of the matter is, even if we look at GS Forums like Court Records and others, Ace Attorney games are and always have been a small niche of the market. There are that many people who are interested in playing an Ace Attorney game.
Ace Attorney isn't a Big Name like Final Fantasy or Tales Of. Aside from the Ace Attorney fans to begin with, nobody will be supremely hyped as soon as a new title is brought out, and the games aren't as frequent as the before-mentioned titles. So already there is the problem of interest and sales, especially in the western and european market. That already gives us a disadvantage.
I'm not sure whether Eshiro really will give us a physical copy of GS5 or won't give us one, no matter what the audience might say. If we were to get GS6 - if they make GS6, perhaps they are making GS5 the last one, it's possible - I do think that it'll be very likely digital copy only.
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GS does so well in Japan that I doubt they would stop at GS5. Too much money to be made. If they did make a game that would be a definitive ending I would applaud their creative integrity though.
I guess it goes back to the original question of how well the game needs to sell in order to bring it over here. GS1 was a huge hit for Capcom, but none of the other games sold as many copies as GS1 did. Based on the fact GS2, GS3, and GS4 all came to the US in only 1 year, I wonder if the sales from the first one drove the localization of all 4 games, with the sales of GS2 having no effect on if GS3 was released, and with the sales of GS3 having no effect on if GS4 was released. I don't think DD needs to reach numbers like Final Fantasy in order to be profitable. But I'm going to assume it has to do better than AAI, which apparently didn't sell well enough.
I'm fine with digital. Obviously, I prefer physical releases, but if the main GS games come over here digital only then I'm fine with that (honestly at this point I don't care about GK2 that much anymore. We already know Edgeworth is in this game, so we're going to see his character post GK2 and that makes whatever development that occurs in the game not really "important" on a plot importance sense.)
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