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Originally posted by Absurdist:
I'm worried about the h-game market. How are G-Collections and PP doing finacially... I wouldnt want you guys to go bankrupt or to stop selling your titles in USA. So whats goin on? Are there new companies coming? Does PP and G-Collections have a stable financial status so they can keep releasing games?
Gee, that was a lot of questions, and I'm not sure that I'm the bes tone to answer them. But I'll try anyway:
The econoimcal status of PP and G-collections: Judging from how things are, I'd say that PP and G-collections might be making enough to stay afloat... but if it is "afloat" or "barley afloat", I don't know. However, because of things like piraticy of their games and other factors, it is difficult for PP & G-collections to expand the market. Also, I except the production to go kind of slow... Perhaps not for g-collections, for they have better resources, but as for PP... I don't know if PP makes very mucgh money, but I don't think so, and that'd mean that it will take PP quite a lot of time to finish the games they're working on now, since they can't employ more personel to be able to finish the titles faster. Also, it might mean that it'll be hard for PP to buy the rights to new games. A company that isn't very successfull in terms of sales is doomed to fail, that I know well, and if the Japanese comapnies thinks thatt hey aren't successfull enough, they'll refuse to let PP release more titles. In any case, even if things aren't allt hat bad for PP right now, PP has not reached it's full strenght yet.
Kumiko said once, that if the market were more succcessful, we'd be able to see a new game each month from PP. Right now, knowing that as most, PP ususally just releases 2-3 titles each year, that seems like an impossible dream, but it's still a dream I'd like to see come true someday. We've seen what G-collections plans to do, so at least we know that it wouldn't be impossble to make something like that. However, G-collections are, I think, far better "equipmented" than PP.
As for G-collections, I don't really know about them. They are a new player int his game, and are apparently very eager to try and get out at the english market. It remains to see whenever they'll think that the english market is something they should try their hands at or not. Who knows, in half a year, G-collections might even be gone because that they think that they didn't sell enough titles here in the west, and that the english market is too much of a risk to try their hands at. we'll see...
As for new companies, don't except any new bishoujo company to pop up anytime soon. We've often gotten told that because of the economical situation in Japan, most japanese bishoujo gmae companies don't even dare to think of about trying their hands at the english market. Fromt heir point of view, the english market is too much of a risk; compared to Japan, there's very few bishoujo game fans here, so there's not much money to be made, and then we have this matter or piraticy... that scares away the Japanese companies. I suppose that some japanese companies might be watching G-collections and see how things are working out for them. So if G-collections does well, then there's a chance that other adult bishoujo game companies in Japan will try their hands at the english market. It remains to see, through... But should G-collections fail, then that will create yet another "bad example" of why no japanese adult bishoujo game company should try their hands at the english market.