We are proud to be part of Bifrost Entertainment http://bifrostent.com , a new game company that we have Co-Founded together with StrongManGames http://www.strongmangames.c... as well as a group of talented people here in Norway. We have just released our first project Maja and The Magical Mirror which is an interactive children’s book. Unfortunately it is at the moment only available in Norwegian but we plan to have an English version ready later this year. So to all our Norwegian users with kids or smaller siblings, please check it out and let us know what you think.
http://itunes.apple.com/no/...
For our non Norwegian user you can still show us some love by following Bifrost Entertainment on Facebook so you can stay up to date with our future releases. We will pick 10 people out of all who follow us on facebook that will get a game of their choosing.
http://www.facebook.com/pag...
PS: For those of you who are wondering we are also hard at work with the next update to N4G, but more on that later.
Wonder's role as Persona 5: The Phantom X's protagonist has thrust him into the spotlight, and there are clear parallels to the original's hero Joker.
The Xbox version of Final Fantasy XVI has failed to enter the platform's top 20 paid games list, indicating weak launch sales performance.
Day One Release vs One year later release with zero marketing to build excitement/hype.
Both Xbox and SE should know better.
Also fewer than half the consoles sold compared to the PS5 so much smaller customer base.
I get that the game was older.
But so were Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon when they came to playstation and those made it into the top download lists for awhile. So the coming a year later excuse doesn't really fly anymore.
look at stellar blade on PC. over a year later and it's already sold over a million copies. this has nothing to do with marketing or hype. the xbox audience, broadly speaking, just doesn't purchase games.
Excuses lol. Everyone already knew this would be the case. 90% of Xbox players don't buy games.
If it ain't on gamepass, they ain't interested.
Great job MS for training most of your player base to not want to actually buy games, maybe SE will realise releasing FF on xbox isn't somehow going to help them match their exaggerated sales targets. Hopefully remake fairs better, probably will on Switch 2 at least.
No game, especially a AAA one, deserves strong sales after taking years to arrive on a platform and still asking the same price as everywhere else. You can’t just ignore a platform for that long and then expect people to be excited by the release. That cycle came and went already, there is no hype for it anymore.
Either you're all in from the start or you're not. This lazy, bare-minimum approach of tossing out a late port and calling it a day shouldn't be rewarded. If you're not willing to respect the platform, don't bother showing up at all.
But the formerly exclusive Xbox games like Forza Horizon enjoyed great sales on PS even after years past their initial release.
Your references to deserving and "shouldn't be rewarded" implies that gamers are buying games based on some moral platitude that simply doesn't exist in practice.
Gamers buy games because they want to play them.
Nah, it implies how it should be. If gamers weren't the dumbass consumer class around, being played like freaking dumbass because they can't get over the hype for a freaking second and think if that purchase even make sense.
This is EXACTLY why they wouldn't and shouldn't bother im the first place. I can't remember which FF game launched on Xbox with the Switch and Playstation version and ONLY did 4% sales on Xbox. So lets not pretend these sales would have been better because if you believe that you are absolutely delusional
"Either you're all in from the start or you're not. This lazy, bare-minimum approach of tossing out a late port and calling it a day shouldn't be rewarded. If you're not willing to respect the platform, don't bother showing up at all."
Weird. How come you don't say the same about Xbox studio games that show up some YEARS/DECADES later as well?
Sea of Thieves
Grounded
Forza Horizon 5
Pentiment
Hi Fi Rush
Gears of War
Mostly at full price and selling well. Oh right doesn't fit your BS narrative
Survival Kids tries and fails to rekindle an old Konami franchise by bringing it to the Switch 2, but ends up leaving it stranded and to fend for its own.
Very cool, I'll check it when in English for sure.
Awesome News 4 Gamers. (Yeah,OK. That was really bad)
I hope this little venture goes well. Sadly my Viking is a little rusty so here's hoping for an English version.
Norwegian eh? Then I know a possible way to increase your exposure. Get in touch with Robbaz on Youtube. He's a very popular Swedish game commentator who sells himself as a Viking. Lol. Good luck to you all. :)
BiFrost? Will Marvel not have issue with this? Rainbow logo and all? I hope not. Well wishes on your endeavor but the similarities are clear.
Awesome, best of luck to you guys.
...really looking forward to hearing more news about that N4G update, the site is getting a lil' dusty XD