The Abandoned Hospital’s Curse: The Imprisoned Faceless Girl is a new adventure game for the Japanese eShop. It launches in Japan next month for 500 yen.
WiiWare and DSiWare are two platforms that are well-known for being filled with problems for indie developers. Both maintained a number of limits, from size restrictions to sales requirements for payments.
Despite these issues, a few studios did manage to find success.
Nnooo creative director Nic Watt recently talked about the company’s own success with WiiWare and DSiWare as well as a general sales overview of its products:
“[People believe] that you cannot make money on [WiiWare and DSiWare]. WiiWare and DSiWare have allowed us to do exactly what we set out to do — develop and publish our own self-funded IP. In terms of success, the answer is an overwhelming yes! As a launch title for WiiWare, we sold really well and made enough money in the first six months to approximately double our investment. With DSiWare, all of our titles to date have at least broken even and most are well past that. The myNotebook series in particular has sold in the hundreds of thousands across all six versions. Both WiiWare and DSiWare have been profitable for us. (WiiWare and, in particular, DSiWare success) has resulted in really great sales for us (a company of five) and allowed us to develop two new, more ambitious games in Spirit Hunters Inc. and EscapeVektor.”
Watt added that Nnooo saw fewer sales for once of its games, Pop, on iOS compared to WiiWare and DSiWare:
“In terms of sales, we have not seen anywhere near the volume of sales for Pop on iOS devices as we have on WiiWare and DSiWare. The main advantage as far as we are concerned is that the people who buy Nintendo platforms actually care about buying and playing games. They are actively engaged in gaming and want new content and experiences. In comparison I feel that too many users of iOS are freeloaders who just want as much as they can get for as little expenditure. They are not looking for quality experiences or for longevity. They just want novelty and cheap prices.”
This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but third-parties have title reveals planned for Nintendo’s new console. MCV says “that a number of publishers are preparing Wii U announcements”.
Third-party Wii U support has been slightly minimal overall. Major companies including Capcom have yet to announce any projects for the system, but the publisher says it’ll have news “very soon”.
Chances are we’ll be seeing more third-party efforts during Nintendo’s fall conference which will be held next month.
We’re quickly closing in one Monster Hunter Tri G’s one year anniversary in Japan. In just a few more months, the game will have been released one year ago in the territory.
The wait for some sort of overseas Monster Hunter news has been agonizing for North American and European fans. The company has continuously teased news and announcements, leading some to believe that Tri G would soon see a localization confirmation. Unfortunately, nothing has been revealed during two of the year’s biggest gaming expos – both E3 and Gamescom lacked news about the franchise.
So where do we stand now? Capcom community specialist Yuri Araujo says that he doesn’t like making fans wait for news, “but I have to.”
“There’s a right time and place for everything… but I assure you that, as a MH fan myself, I don’t like making you wait; but I have to. Sorry.”
Araujo also posted in another thread:
“Good news: there is an end to this madness.
Bad news: just like I said in the other thread, I hate making you wait… but I have to. =(“
Artland animation studio, a subsidiary of Marvelous AQL, is working on the new Senran Kagura anime. This division previously worked on the Katekyo Hitman Reborn! TV series.
Takahashi Watanabe is directing the Senran Kagura anime. His past work includes Shakugan no Shana and the Slayers series.
The Senran Kagura TV anime will see its debut in Japan sometime next year.
