The Mystery Shin Megami Tensei Game IS The PS2 Devil Summoner Sequel

By Spencer . January 26, 2009 . 8:08pm

The Mystery Shin Megami Tensei Game IS The PS2 Devil Summoner Sequel If the Raiho shadow wasn’t enough of a clue Gamefly just spoiled Atlus’ surprise. They have a listing for Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha versus King Abaddon in their database (thanks Denpa no Sekai!!). According to Gamefly’s schedule the PlayStation 2 game will ship in May which sounds reasonable given the seven month localization gap between Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner – Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army.

 

Oh and Raiho, the Jack Frost mascot dressed in Raidou’s clothes, makes an appearance in the game too. Fingers crossed Atlus gives these out as a pre-order bonus like they did in Japan.

 

 

Images courtesy of Atlus.




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  • lostinblue

    Oh, I had forgotten Ys is coming.

    My publisher of the year so far is shaping up to be either Xseed/Marvelous or Sega

  • byrc

    You see I have a love hate relationship with Atlus USA. They publish a lot of bad stuff, borderline atrocious at times, but they always have at least 1 game a year that is really damn good (generally a SMT franchise game). Frankly if they developed it, its pretty darn good game, sometimes they publish some really cool gems, like the STING developed games like Yggdra and Riveria. Unlike developers like Bethseda who depend on one big game a year to make profit, Atlus publishes and develops multiple games to make up for the low sells of their niche games, this leads to a lot of crap to be released.

    BTW if you want a GOOD Y's game, go and play Y's Ark of Naphtism, 1 and 2 aren't that great, those 2 games definitely didn't age well.

  • byrc

    Just because wii has tons of units sold in japan doesn't mean those atlus niche games will sell well. Keep in mind many people in japan who bought a wii arent' the type of people who play those kind of games. From developers perspective (especially one that focuses on niche titles), its about which console has the most audience receptive to their kind of product.

    I'm not saying that the wii is a bad choice, and ps3 is better, but there is a reason why Nippon Ichi released Disgaea 3 and X-edge on the ps3.

    To be honest even 2009, things are really hard to predict from the Japanese side of things. The casual game market is huge in japan, and developers are scrambling to handle an industry that has a)become western oriented in sales and b)driven by a domestic casual market.

    There is no easy answer, and anybody in the know, understands that japanese devs/pubs are completely blind-sided by all of this.

    Sure the wii is cheap to develop on, and has a large consumer base, but the only software that really sells are casual games, or nintendo published franchises. Its like selling hardcore punk music to tween girls that listen to Hannah Montana, sure there are a lot of them and yeah they generate tons of revenue to the music industry, but it would be ridiculous to focus your marketing toward this demographic. They just won't buy it.

  • lostinblue
  • http://denpanosekai.blogspot.com denpanosekai

    Way ahead of you on the Ys stuff, don't worry. I played the Turbo Duo originals on release year, grew up with Falcom series, etc. Atlus USA are releasing Knights in the Nightmare as per an amazon.ca leak, so I guess you can look forward to that.

    And everyone knows it's Ys, not Y's!!

  • lostinblue

    Well… Funny that Tales of Symphonia Knight of Ratatosk raped Tales of Vesperia sales then. A low budget spin-off raped the sales of a main installment.

    That whole “hey, people in japan who bought a wii arent' the type of people who play those kind of games” is just a falacy, as is when applied to the rest of the world. There are new users with the Wii yes, and the old ones and the mainstream ones, that's what it means to be a leading platform, it doesn't mean a freaking wall between that and “real” platforms/games whatsoever.

    Also, I'd like to enforce the point that PSone was considered casual back in the days before FF7 launched, Saturn had a lower install base already and it's multiplatform games even used to sell better than PSone's (such is not the case with the Wii); of course then FF7 came and PSone left Saturn in the dust in that area, but was, at some point, hence the reason why it brought new public to the table.

    In fact… FF7 expansion wouldn't be possible in any console other than a market leading one; why? because it sold to the fans and then some more. In that sense, any developer not going all out on the Wii is losing some big opportunity, which leaves a window of oportunity for others. Such could and should be the case for Atlus, seeing that higher development costs really don't suit them, investing more in a HD platform for what? selling 500.000 units worldwide with luck? (the same they're shipping with P4 on PS2). It's either Wii, or PSP/DS no other platforms really make sense for them.

    Atlus knew how to see that and exploit it back in the day seeing that Megami Ibunroku Persona came before FF7 at least.

    Also, regarding Disgaea 3, there was an obvious reason for it to happen on PS3, I just called it :p but it can be summed up as “missed preemptive strike”.

    Disgaea clearly did the jump because they felt they needed to at the time (look at the graphics)

    I'll agree developers attitude so far don't make it cut clear for 2009 though, but that's not because it is so hard to reach a obvious conclusion; I'd say it's pretty simple (and well… obvious). that is, unless they want to be stubborn.

    As for what they should focus on… Wii is market leader worldwide, so they shouldn't have to think that much when it comes to the platform and they have a limited budget just the same. Still they should focus on making games for their market, for it's the one they understand the best; just make it have a broader appeal, like persona did, sells well in japan because it's a quality title and sells well outside it for the same reasons.

  • ikiryou

    Yes, but did a very cute girl sell it to you? ;-)

    I saw in one of the other columns that someone got it for $7. Crazy!

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