Its too early to expect a lot of sales of the LMM trading cards. Maybe after the game is released you might get the sales you were expecting.
BTW, just wondering, are those merchandise the only kind of merchandise you would ever sell, or do you plan another kinds?
I’m thinking of course about the many merchandise bishoujo games usually offers: shitajikis, keyholders, etc. and foremost CDs (I’ve… )!
Maybe Peach Princess can release a “best of” compilation CD soundtrack of the released games?
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Hmmmm… Well, I was just wondering… Anyway, “petition”, yes, it could be a good idea. I wonder if someone could do that (I could, but I don’t own a homepage…). After all, it could work: some anime companies are doing so to know if they should release some anime titles… ^^;;;;
i just wanted to let you know, kumiko, that I bought the LMM cards, and i fully intend to buy t-shirts and wallscroll as well as most of the rest of PeaPri’s games that i don’t have as soon as i get my money at the beginning of next month…i decided to do this after reading your pos about needing more sales…i also tell everyone i know how great hentai and bishoujo games are and direct them to your website
just one lady doing her part, but i think i’m on the verge of getting one of my friends into buying some stuff i’d be devastated if the market for bishoujo died!
and i am thinking of making part of my personal website (which is already about anime and video games anyway) a petition for more merchandise if i put that up, i’ll post the list
I think the reason why your merchandise dose not sell as well compared to your game products is that the American public is not used to buying posters, shirts, Cards et cetera that tied to computer games. There are hard core collectors, but that is it. The other succesfull type of line of products tied to a computer or video game in the US are the numerous amount of Poke'mon stuff, and I don't think think it would have goten as big if Nintendo, Toys "R" Us, and WB had only released the games, then show, and merchandise. They started them all at the same time, which is different from the way it developed in Japan. The Poke'mon GB games were out long before the show or other merchandise.
I just think it is a difference in the way people view things in the US and Japan. I think that Americans in general split entertainment into different groups. In many ways I think that Americans view computer and video games as a "lesser" form of entertainment, and definitely not a form of "art" or expression. In fact computer games are a richer form of entertainment then movies. Computer games have a lot of hidden beauty in them also, like the elegance of a game engine and how it is programmed. This can be seen by the fact that the computer game industry is actually larger then the movie industry, but only gamers care about E3, but everyone wants to know which movie won best picture, even if they don't go out and watch movies.
I have seen Blizzard release Diablo II action figures, and D&D rules to play in the Diablo universe, but It will take time, which is money. I think a promotional system that emphases the games more as stories or experiences and not "games" would help to increase the growth related items, but I don't know, I am not a economics or advertising major, I am a physics major.
This slowly changing, but I don't think it will have any effect on market that is as small as Peach Princess'.
Speaking personally on the matter of the T-shirts, I haven’t yet had the chance to make a connection with the LMM girls, so that potential purchase is waiting.
The TOKIMEKI CHECK-IN! shirt…well, I just wouldn’t feel comfortable wearing Ayumi’s panty shot around on my chest in public. Putting the great group shot in the onsen front and center wouldn’t bother me. Offer more modest individual portraits of each girl, and I’d buy all ten!
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Originally posted by Mozart:
The TOKIMEKI CHECK-IN! shirt...well, I just wouldn't feel comfortable wearing Ayumi's panty shot around on my chest in public. Putting the great group shot in the onsen front and center wouldn't bother me. Offer more modest individual portraits of each girl, and I'd buy all ten![/B]
Well, I bought one [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/redface.gif[/img]. Guess what, the people(boys and girls) who saw it think it's cute and asked me where I got it, so I told them [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]. I could just see their surprised faces when they find out what kind of game it came from [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]. Anyway, I helped a little promoting the bishojo industry this way [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img].
Merchandise is one of the reasons I love Bishoujo games , when I was in japan I went nuts buying Pia Carrot and Yu-No merchandise (cards, LDs, Keychains,etc…) the extras are the most fun part… nothings more fun than collecting all the stuff about your favorite character…
as a side note, have you (Peapri) considered selling the Lmm cards with the LMM game? (sorta like a special edition?)
I already bought the cards but i’d be willing to buy 'em again
on another tangent, EVERYONE should get the LMM cards they’re SO cool, I love mine… and so inexpensive (for import cards)
nifty!! can hardly wait