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Originally posted by Interzone:
The most important factor in the bishojo game industry is sales - whoever buys them and for whatever reason, they are sales and support companies like Peach Princess and G-Collections. What would really be sad is if the sales didn't justify releasing anything at all, let alone the likes of Crescendo.
I agree about: "The most important factor in the bishojo game industry is sales".
And your last clause is the thing I fear most:
Of cause, I don't know how the read sales figures look, but when they the suddenly annouce Shukketsu Bo less than a year after Tsuki was released, it gives me a certain idea about them.
I mean: there are certainly a lot of other dark themed games available for releasing and some of them with really great plots. But they decided to take on another game whose story was made by the same author, so you can assume a similar quality. You wouldn't call that a coincidence, would you?
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Originally posted by Interzone:
Speaking of which, if the industry this far down the line can accomodate the release of Casual Romance Club, Crescendo and Brave Soul in the same year I'd say the outlook is pretty decent.
In order to judge if the market can accomodate these releases, they should have been released (only CRC is right now) and been selling at least for half a year, if you have access to the sales figures.
If you don't have access to these informations (as I do), you only can watch closely which titles gets announce next and draw your conclusions.
I want to stress the point that my conclusions may be wrong, but I have told what made me draw this conclusion. Besides that, I have to admit that I hate Tsuki passionately, so of cause all is just my opinion.
Regarding Casual Romance Club:
If Kagami is right (usually he is), CRC never targeted the english market and just was meant as a gimmick for the faithful japanese customers of LIBIDO, so I wouldn't count it in here because it wasn't part of a strategy to develop the english market in the first place. We were just lucky that Kagami told us about it when it first seemed to be an april-fools joke.
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Originally posted by Interzone:
Kana and Private Nurse must be selling fairly well for G-Collections to even bother with something like Crescendo. Of course, parellels can be drawn with the anime and manga industry in that there are far more generic titles than those that offer true quality and innovation, but with growing popularity more choice becomes available.
I hope so too. But the only thing I know for certain about the sales is that of all the games only Kango Shicyauzo sold out and Kana was released at the same time. While I love this game too, it isn't in the same league as Kana, Private Nurse and Crecendo.
Of cause, this conclusion may be again misled because we don't know if the same amount of copies of Kana and Kango Shicyauzo were printed.
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Originally posted by Interzone:
I think it's shaping up to be a great year [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
This year for sure, and I also enjoy these releases, but I fear for the upcoming years, after the results of the sales figures have kicked in.
But perhaps, I am just a terrible pessimist...
So let's see how many a-class-products will be released after Crecendo or if it is the last test if such games sell here too.