UnchainBlades ReXX as eShop download (moved discussion)

[stealth20k]

http://www.nintendopower.com/images/NP277_TOC.pdf



I DONT LIKE THIS AT ALL

[Chaosblade]

Probably e-shop/PSN. So multiplatform digital-only.

Curious to see how that would work. Does the 3DS e-shop give you more prominence than Wiiware? Because it seems like developing for Wiiware was suicide.

[Lumina]

Copy/paste of my opinion from the other thread:

If this is true, I really don't get why the hell this going DD only, this is an RPG on a currently RPG starved system. Not to mention that the 3DS itself is a new system with great sales recently. I knew this was going to become a normal thing with XSEED, how utterly disappointing. With each DD game released I'm growing increasingly indifferent about XSEED game announcements. I don't mean to B.i.t.c.h, it's just how I feel.

[Chaosblade]

It probably has more to do with sales expectations than anything.

I'm not sure the "stop picking up games that you expect to sell too poorly for physical releases!" point works, they probably just take what they can license and expect to make some sort of profit on, and digital only probably opens up a number of possibilities they would have had to pass on for financial reasons. In fact with the state of the portable market, there probably aren't that many games that physical releases will really work for - not that I'm advocating digital-only.

[Gintoki]

A full retail game downloadable on a Nintendo device?! I'll be hiding in my basement waiting for hell to thaw out.

[Chaosblade]

Nintendo actually announced not too long ago that the eshop supported games up to 2GB, IIRC. So basically, retail sized 3DS games right now.

[stealth20k]

If true, I am probably fully done with xseed...........

there is no reason for this to be DD AT ALL...........

[Gintoki]

Yeah, I remember, but still, can't be too careful. *tinfoil hat* >.>

[stealth20k]

well xseed wil find out quickly that games like etrian 1-3 sell because they were physical and affordable. People bought them

[zaracoatl]

If this is download only, I'm not interested. -_-; I like having the physical copy.