With Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness and The Witch and the Hundred Knight finally complete, Siliconera caught up with Nippon Ichi Software president Souhei Niikawa to find out about the company’s future titles starting with Criminal Girls for Vita.
NIS America 2022 Golden Week Sale on the Switch eShop includes Disgaea, The Legend of Heroes, Ys, and more.
Much like Square Enix, NIS America is hosting a new sale on the Switch and 3DS eShops in celebration of Golden Week 2021.
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "When Sony entered the world of handheld gaming in 2004, it provided a new opportunity for developers to chase a different market than had existed before. Over the next decade we saw multiple companies, from both western and eastern shores, shift their pipelines to focus on providing software for both the PlayStation Portable and its successor the PlayStation Vita. Despite the latter’s relatively weak hardware sales, there were still successes to be found on the console, which meant that it was easy to plan a future around being a Vita developer.
By 2014, though, it had become clear that Sony was no longer interested in pursuing the handheld market and this left a number of companies in difficulty – they’d either need to adapt to the shifting times, or face dying out altogether. In this article, I’m aiming to look at what happened to developers who made both the PSP and Vita their main focus, how they adapted to the demise of Sony handhelds, what future plans they made, and how well they’re doing in the current gaming market."
The moved to the Switch from Vita. Some of the exact same games or similar games from those developers. Loved the Vita and glad to see those devs still have a platform to release lesser budget fun games.
Another Disgaea man I can't wait. So many JRPG's and RPG's now I feel like Sony and the Developers are trying to keep my wallet on E
It's understandable why they want to. I love NIS and buys most of their games but With next gen, the cost is only going to go up and they need more than their niche fan base to make profit.
Expand/appeal to a wider audience eh?
iOS confirmed.