[QUOTE="psychobrew"]Xseed obviously thought July 21st was a better time to release the game. If they didn't have finances to release the game, they might have second thoughts on releasing it all together based on the performance of European sales. Regardless, the budget has already been aproved. Do you really think they'd be publishing a game they didn't have finances for?AlexSays
Okay, couple things...
1. Saying "Obviously they thought this" is not factual evidence. I can tell everyone I know what Nintendo is thinking, but that doesn't make it true. It seems you got this little theory in your head, and decided it's the only possible explanation.
You have no proof and your theory doesn't even make sense, so you can't expect your words to be taken as fact. Instead of releasing a game before the competition, they release it just after? Riight.
2. Financial issues are just as probable as "They thought so". If they weren't bringing enough revenue after releasing the game in Europe, they could have decided to wait a few months until they had a much more stable budget under their belt.
They might have considered not releasing the game, we don't know. Well of course you do because you know exactly what they're thinking, but the rest of us don't, and don't pretend to. Heck, for all we know, they game might never be released in North America.
It's called analyzing a situation. Finding evidence to come up with conclusions that make sense. Do you really think a publisher would bring on a game without having secured the funds to publish it? I can see it now MMV and XSEED to Town Factory and Cing -- "We don't have the money to do it, but we'd love to publish LKS for you. We're betting we can pull something out of a hat or some dark hole in our bodies to get this thing published." Town Factory and Cing to MMV and XSEED -- "Wow, sounds like an extremely solid plan. This is great! Where do we sign?" Unless one of the publshers is on the verge of going out of business, financing isn't an issue (unless senior management no longer thinks the game can make money and they want to cut their losses). Somewhere in all this, you have Rising Star Games, which is a subsidiary of MMV in Europe that is publishing the game there, but has nothing to do with the US version. Their performance will have no affect on US funding unless the publishers have lost faith in the game. So while it may be speculation, there's evidence that the US release of Rune Factory Frontier pushed back the US release of LKS to June since they have the same publishers, and they wouldn't want the titles to compete. Then you have the tons of June releases that, when seeing how poorly the game did in Europe, made the decision that a less competitive release date would be a better solution. Publishing the game earlier could put it in direct competition with Rune Factory Frontier, not to mention the logistics for an earlier release may not be possible at this point (and Xseed isn't going to bend over backwards to get a poor performing game to market faster than planned). So now we have a release in the relatively slow month of July. Here's another prediciton -- if the game is delayed again, it's going to be cancelled.
Log in to comment