Comments on: Nippon Ichi Takes A Huge Hit In Operating Profit

By: LastFootnote

LastFootnote — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:08:33 +0000

Yeah. Looks like it's time to buy!

I guess I'm not really that worried about Nippon Ichi. For one thing, they're still in the black, which is more than I can say for a lot of companies. For another, all this hullabaloo is over the financials for the first nine months of their fiscal year. If my understanding is correct, Profit = Income – Costs. So if they spent a lot of money in the first nine months of the fiscal year developing their biggest titles and those titles won't go on sale until the last three months of this fiscal year, then it makes sense that their financials would look bad after those first nine months

I'd very much like to see the their financials on April 1st, once Zettai Hero and Prinny 2 have been released. I bet they'll paint a rosier picture.

By: Slashlen

Slashlen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:48:43 +0000

Their stock took a beating today. Down about 20%.

By: LastFootnote

LastFootnote — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:08:33 +0000

By: Slashlen

Slashlen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:48:43 +0000

Their stock took a beating today. Down about 20%.

By: Joanna_T

Joanna_T — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:50:33 +0000

I'm still waiting for the DS port of Disgaea 2.

By: matty

matty — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:28:03 +0000

True, but I was referring how the battle system in Marl Kingdom/Rhapsody went from being entirely in the player's favor (yes, it was geared towards a much younger audience, but even they had to have breezed through this game thanks to the consistent and organized leveling) to La Pucelle's cluster of battle mechanics that seemed half-baked and just slows to a crawl at certain points. That's how it was for me, at least.
Yeah, comparing the two that way is apple and oranges, it's just when you break it down and look at the “evolution” of NIS' trademark battle systems, LP just leaves me scratching my head as to what they were trying to do.

By: NickyD

NickyD — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:45:22 +0000

Thanks for the kind words in this thread, haha.

NIS seems to be doing okay, but looking at the releases, I can see what's going on. Things will turn around in the '10 fiscal year… at least for NISA, since we deal with more than just NIS titles. We've got lots of fun stuff coming up =)

By: supermarius

supermarius — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:07:16 +0000

well i bought thre of their games this year and last year. Do you part, people! I wanna see the la pucelle psp games make it to the us.

By: raymk

raymk — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:51:50 +0000

Thats terrible news but i don't think its the end of the world for them yet. The economy is making things hard for gamers as well because everybody can't buy the games like they used to do to job loss and pay cuts :(

By: kupomogli

kupomogli — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:23:23 +0000

Your right I haven't played Atelier Annie, but the earlier released games I have. Just got tired of their games. The Gust games are definitely better than NIS' own though.

The statement you made about quality, I guess you could say that about Gust games because they do have a decent creation system. However, La Pucelle, Disgaea, Disgaea 2, Phantom Brave, etc, are anything but quality. Sorry, but these games don't deserve any of the praise they get. I'd rank them just above Eternal Eyes and Hoshigami in the gameplay department. Storyline is pretty good for a single playthrough due to the humor.

By: Ereek

Ereek — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:21:06 +0000

This is true. La Pucelle is an older game than Disgaea. It's just that La Pucelle was released after Disgaea in North America.

By: Hero of Legend

Hero of Legend — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:42:31 +0000

I'd love that! Especially since PB Wii was like $40, D1&2 for $50 is a steal in comparison.

What gave them the idea they could charge $40 for an old PS2 game with a bit of new content is really weird to me. :/ It was even worse in Japan if I recall.

By: jarrodand

jarrodand — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:36:45 +0000

I think the only way they could get away with another Disgaea 1 port is if they did both Disgaea 1 & 2 in a single release. That might not be a bad move for Wii/360 actually, then they could follow with Disgaea 3 ports.

I'm pretty sure we'll see a PSP Disgaea 3 port though now that I think about…

By: Yuan

Yuan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:15:42 +0000

Well, you can say La Pucelle is the ancestor of Disgaea…

By: malek86

malek86 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:23:01 +0000

Right now, middle-sized publishers have it rough. Things are going somewhat better for smaller studios and for giant corporations.

Oh well, maybe next year things will be better for everyone.