Nippon Ichi Porting Phantom Brave To Wii, Adds Plenair?

@ Mattias – “I find it kind of strange that you’re shitting all over the idea of a decent SRPG for a HD console.”

A 5 year old PS2 port as a decent SRPG for a HD console? :X We’re discussing wether it is even a half decent effort for the Wii as a SD console.

@ Mattias – “by only releasing for an SD console like the wii the graphic artists won’t really learn how to handle HD graphics, right?”

Disgaea 3 didn’t use HD capabilities whatsoever, who, tbh in that case would be only higher definition texture and more polycounts. Besides Wii has cheaper devkits, bigger install base, it is market leader everywhere (it’s not just Japan), srpg’s are not that big of a genre, oh and cheaper media than Bluray and lower publishing fee’s per game than both Sony and Microsoft offer.

@ Mattias – “I think they should release more games for the PS2. I’m pretty sure it’s still the console owned by most people and then they’d have more money for marketing and overseas sales”

It’s selling less and less, it’s pretty much a zombie console with no hype that is selling on the momentum of cheaper games, reason why Atlus hasn’t released a game at full price for a long time now and will offer artbooks and OST’s in those $40 games. it’s far past it’s prime and while gamers like us can go back to it just fine… we’re a minority. If, as a developer, you want to reach the masses now, you have to focus on something else than PS2.

This said, PS2 sure made more sense for Disgaea 3 than PS3, IMO.

@ Mattias – “It would also reach a broader audience outside of Japan and the audience that bought their previous games and stuck with Sony.”

Wii is market leader outside Japan too, so it reaches a broader userbase on it too; if the PS2 public “stuck with Sony” they wouldn’t be third now; and if that public was stuck there and were to sell to them alone then it wouldn’t be a broader public, but the same public.

If anything the broader public is here, on the Wii, and that said, it’s not even that clear cut when as you see there’s quite a few Wii owners in this post that own/know Phantom Brave, we were Ps2 owners just he same.

@ Mattias – “Also, a port for X360/PS3 wouldn’t be awesome per say but I think a port to PS3/X360 would find another audience that might be more interested in titles like Phantom Brave or Disgaea.”

I won’t argue, we have totally opposite views of ports; I think I have the most realistic one though, as if anything reviewers and the public perception is very harsh on stuff like this, when made like this.

@ Mattias – “there is always THE REST OF THE WORLD? Just because Blue Dragon ties with DQ: Swords doesn’t mean that all games should be released for Wii? I think the PS3/360 audience really needs a good SRPG/RPG. I’m pretty sure they would buy it and love it just because all other RPGs lately hasn’t been that good. And well, I’m assuming the game developed would be good.”

But Wii is also market leader in the rest of the world :P I didn’t said that all games had to be for the Wii though, but the Wii makes more sense right now for the genre, in more ways than one.

I think there’s decent SRPG’s for the HD’s too, I mean Disgaea 3, Tears to Tiara, Valkyria Chronicles, those are all PS3 though; I’m not informed of the X360 line-up in that sense but I heard Atlus was bringing something over too from the genre. Besides early PS3′s have backwards compatibility and therefore can play Phantom Brave anyway.

Wii smells because I don’t have one..

THERE I said it, can we stop now? :*

Oh, and if people aren’t sure who I’m talking about, the very last image of the article shows a dark Marona right above Ash and Marona. Which will be the boxart for the Wii version.

Not reading all of this. >_>;

By “test” I was actually point more towards “Hey, would a SRPG work well with the Wii remote?” After all Phantom Brave was a game by them to ditch the grid system, which with the wii remote would make the game feel natural if they pull it off.

Well, Phantom Brave might be ported just to get a second chance. Like Okami kinda? I mean why else would they port an old game. Did it do well in Japan?

In any second thought, we just have to remember that companies in Japan will tend to make games for that market, not to really please us outside Japan.

wow i can’t w8 4 dis i hope the game sells fo at least $30 to $20 in the US

also i hope they bring back Makai Kingdom or even a sequal to either PB or MK it’l give me reason to play my wii again XP

o and i hope they add wifi battles

Kurunoa: Actually, you may be on to something. They’d do this to get used to the Wii software, and what kind of sRPG they’d want to make on it gameplay wise, then build a new one from the ground up with the engine from Phantom Brave.

… or make another PS3 exclusive. Who knows what NIS is doing these days.

I don’t think this is such a bad idea. Wii needs some games.

@Mattias

Disgaea 3 undersold even Nippon Ichi’s modest Japanese projects (they wanted 120k, got ~90k). Valkyria Chronicles underperformed too… actually, the only current generation console SRPG which seems to have at least met expectations is Fire Emblem Wii.

Very interesting sale objective from NI for D3. I was interested how well it did, and I had a feeling that would happen. Didn’t know there was such a huge gap.
As someone that doesn’t own either console, I would like to see them try to push these games on the 360. I think there is potential there, just not a solid one at the moment. You got to try and break in, though.

^ X360 is from the 3 consoles the one selling less in japan though.

Third party’s don’t have to “break in” on that when there’s no incentive to do that, be that incentive represented by a massive userbase, off the bat userbase for these specific games or cost effective development; which by comparison with others just isn’t the case now, in it.

Or should, for that matter try to break in, Xbox 1 didn’t sold in japan, so it’s only natural that it didn’t get RPG’s, because there was much more money to be done elsewhere, no such thing as beneficence in this industry; now don’t get me wrong, it’s fine if they get them, just like it’s fine that PS3 has gotten 3 srpg’s so far, but did it justify them up to this point? no, not really, and if anything X360 would justify them even less. (now, if I were to do a PS3 JRPG also putting it on x360, for how low the sales could be, could be a good move to at least sell a handful more units)

I also find it very weird the: ” (I think) there is potential there, just not a solid one at the moment” it’s one thing or the other, either there’s public… or not; it’s not like they’re saturated of the genre so the max sales would be hindered (like could happen with FPS’s).

about the prices; after some calculating $78 would be around 57euro if I’m correct, and that would be about a pretty normal normal price for a game here in europe. (wii – 55euro/$74 ps3 – 60euro/$80 360 – 60euro/$80)

you might be calling it expensive, but for me these are normal prices, and US games are simply cheap.

^at least it would be a normal price if I didn’t buy everything 2nd hand xD

On a side note, Plenair appears as a cameo in Monetopia, no idea how many people missed that..

as a huge fan of Phantom Brave I'm really excited for the release. finally, this game is getting the recognition it deserves! Although I do enjoy Disgaea, I think it's unfair that it gets a lot more exposure than PB.
also, there's a 'trailer' of it released, and i can safely say that Pleinair WON'T be in the game; the mysterious new character turns out to be someone who looks a lot like Marone, but older. I'm guessing that she's Sprout's granddaughter, since there's a scene where we see him with that girl

wow, 78 bucks
i havent really played the game yet but i want to
i guess i'll just wait till they sell it on a lower price XD