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Falcom recruiting staff for Smartphone, Browser, and MMO development (Tokyo Xanadu)

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Mpl90

Two copies sold? That's not a bomb guys, stop trolling!!!
Nirolak said:
It hovers at about 200 on Google Play and dips as low as 350 on iOS, but mostly stays in the 200-300 band.
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Hovering at about 200 on GP, huh? Well, if that insane failure (compared to predecessors) that's been Chaos Rings III left to us (it only recently went over 5,000 downloads on GP, absolutely dreadful), is a possible estimate of what means being around 200th

This is a Chaos Rings III's analysis I made back in November

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=138724180&highlight=chaos+rings#post138724180

Reposting Grossing Ranking + correlated analysis for clearness

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October 18th, 369th Overall - 100 < x < 500 copies sold --> Yen 280,000 < x < Yen 1,400,000 grossed
October 19th, 288th Overall - 500 < x < 1,000 copies sold --> Yen 1,400,000 < x < Yen 2,800,000 grossed
October 20th, 238th Overall - 500 < x < 1,000 copies sold --> Yen 1,400,000 < x < Yen 2,800,000 grossed
October 21st, 197th Overall - 1,000 < x < 5,000 copies sold --> Yen 2,800,000 < x < Yen 14,000,000 grossed
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November 12th, 321st Overall - 1,000 < x < 5,000 copies sold --> Yen 2,800,000 < x < Yen 14,000,000 grossed

For a certain amount of the considered period (up to October 30th, the game stayed in between 100th - 200th confortably, and then it started going down and down). Considering how it went over 1,000 downloads the day it entered top 200, I'll consider the amount of days between October 21st and October 30th, i.e. the last day it was in top 200. So, 10 days.

Daily Grossing Average (October 21st - October 30th) - 280,000 Yen < x < 1,400,000 Yen.

Considering how it just recently the game went over 5,000 downloads LTD, I'd say the DGA for that period is faaaaaar nearer to 280,000 Yen compared to 1,400,000 Yen. Something like 400,000 to 450,000 Yen per day is a possible better estimate, maybe?
 
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Dragoon En Regalia

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This most likely refers to Falcom's Innovation Unit, as Tokyo Xanadu's already in production and rushing new staff into a production as big as this wouldn't turn out well (nor would altering the design document to include more online/F2P/mobile functions). I hope Falcom is just as likely to invest budget and personnel into a PC porting team so they can give XSEED something to localize on Steam, given how lucrative the deal's been according to investor meetings. Fascinating how, after they stuck with PC for a while after the millennium turned, the company's moving into a variety of platforms.

alstein said:
The fact that they were a PC house gives me hope they won't be stupid.
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Easy to stay afloat when you're the PC soft house that ruled sales charts from 1985 all the way to when SoftBank dropped retail distribution/support for the company. It helps that Falcom made consistently fun games in the few genres their staff excelled at (various action-adventure/strategy breeds, pre-modern RTSes, command-selection adventures, &c.).

krYlon said:
Wait, there was a Legend of the Galactic Heroes mobile game? Japan gets all the cool stuff :(
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Must I mention Bothtec's PC LOGH strategy game series? :)
 
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Vylash

Member
there's nothing better than a thread about a game being on mobile because you know it's filled to the brim with whiny reactionary posts, because good mobile games don't exist or something
 
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djtiesto

is beloved, despite what anyone might say
Fuck, the one company I thought I could count on has turned to the dark side :(
 
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PixyJunket

Member
I don't care, I'll take Tokyo Xanadu on iPad as long as it's good.

Xanadu Next was mouse controlled anyway, so it would work fine on a touchscreen (if it's the same style of game, of course).
 
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wyrdwad

XSEED Localization Specialist
PixyJunket said:
I don't care, I'll take Tokyo Xanadu on iPad as long as it's good.

Xanadu Next was mouse controlled anyway, so it would work fine on a touchscreen (if it's the same style of game, of course).
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I refused to play Xanadu Next until Falcom patched in gamepad support two weeks after release. Playing an action RPG with the mouse is something I never, ever do -- it just feels wrong to me. I guess it's just another symptom of my terminal console-gameritis. ;)

So yeah... really hoping this isn't talking about Tokyo Xanadu!

-Tom
 
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Reveirg

Member
This wouldn't fall in line with the game being in Dengeki. I guess it might be coming out for both VITA and mobile?
 
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duckroll

Member
jdkluv said:
Wasn't this supposed to be the Innovation Unit game, though?

http://i.imgur.com/28m5pAd.jpg
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I recall that screen being part of a general blurb about Falcom looking into using their IPs for more smaller social and mobile stuff for fans. It's just something they're interested in expanding into. You don't set up a sub-division in the company just to make one thing though. I think if Tokyo Xanadu is the flagship internal project for Falcom expanding to smartphones and browsers, then we'll be seeing a lot more smaller projects throughout 2015 too. Could be interesting.
 
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Reveirg

Member
duckroll said:
I recall that screen being part of a general blurb about Falcom looking into using their IPs for more smaller social and mobile stuff for fans. It's just something they're interested in expanding into. You don't set up a sub-division in the company just to make one thing though. I think if Tokyo Xanadu is the flagship internal project for Falcom expanding to smartphones and browsers, then we'll be seeing a lot more smaller projects throughout 2015 too. Could be interesting.
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I wonder if XSeed would jump on the bandwagon and help with localization for those titles too.
 
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wyrdwad

XSEED Localization Specialist
jdkluv said:
With keyboard+mouse, yes. :p
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Well, OK, I should correct myself and say that I refuse to play games *exclusively* with the mouse. Xanadu Next pre-patch was a unique specimen, in that you couldn't even use arrow keys for movement -- the only movement control mapped to the keyboard was "walk forward." And that was just unacceptable to me in an action RPG. I recall I was very grumbly about it when I got the game... and then Falcom announced the gamepad patch, and all was right with the world. ;)

(Also, Brandish: The Dark Revenant doesn't use a mouse, and that's the best-playing Brandish of them all! So the series at least CAN be made to function with "Real Gamer" controls. Heheheh.)

-Tom
 
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Shengar

Member
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Welp, I guess it's just matter of time before Falcom jumped to the mobile money too.

duckroll said:
Well, I liked the Nolan Batman movies, and that ended up with Man of Steel.

I liked Martin Campbell's work on Goldeneye and Casino Royale, and we ended up with Green Lantern.

Oh dear!
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This is simply horrible D:
krYlon said:
Wait, there was a Legend of the Galactic Heroes mobile game? Japan gets all the cool stuff :(
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I need to remind you that LoGH officially never released outside of Japan.
And how do you suppose turn LoGH to mobile games? Characters card game? D:
Dragoon En Regalia said:
Must I mention Bothtec's PC LOGH strategy game series? :)
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Those are glorious, complete with the digitalized Bolero's Ravel.
Shame that I would never have the chance to play it
 
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dramatis

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Due to a newly published report evaluating Falcom's business (I think?) by The Stock Research Center (in Japan?), there's a rumor indicating that Tokyo Xanadu might be a PSVita title (maybe PS4?), because of this one line in the report (lol):
&#35388;&#21048;&#12522;&#12469;&#12540;&#12481;&#12475;&#12531;&#12479;&#12540;&#12395;&#12424;&#12427;15&#24180;9&#26376;&#26399;&#20104;&#24819; (section where the line appears in the report)
&#12414;&#12383;&#12289;15/9&#26399;&#12398;&#26032;&#20316;&#12424;&#12426;&#21516;&#31038;&#12399;&#20027;&#12394;&#12503;&#12521;&#12483;&#12488;&#12501;&#12457;&#12540;&#12512;&#12434; PS4 &#21450;&#12403; PSVita &#12395;&#12377;&#12427;&#12392;&#12375;&#12390;&#12356;&#12427;&#12290;PS4 &#12364;&#22269;&#20869;&#12391;&#21313;&#20998;&#12395;&#26222;&#21450;&#12375;&#12390;&#12356;&#12394;&#12356;&#28857;&#12418;&#32771;&#24942;&#12395;&#20837;&#12428;&#12289;&#36009;&#22770;&#26412;&#25968;&#12434;&#20445;&#23432;&#30340;&#12395;&#35211;&#31309;&#12418;&#12387;&#12383;
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Rough translation being that the 'main platforms' for period 2015/9 are PS4 and PSVita, with a note about how PS4 is selling poorly in Japan. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, the report was filled with language that is way above my level. The assumption here is that if Tokyo Xanadu is coming out in 2015, it'll probably be on one of the 'main platforms' of 2015; hence PSV/PS4.

I got the link to the report from Hachimaki, who seems to speculate it will be a PSV title.
 
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Aeana

Member
nampad said:
Nice to hear the Vita being a main platform :)
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Falcom has had pretty good success with the Vita. It's worrisome that they probably won't be able to get even a decent fraction of the PS3 sales they've gotten on PS4, though. The PS3/Vita split was pretty good for Sen and Sen 2.
 
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