Toshi Nakamura / Kotaku.com: Psycho-Pass is Japan's big Xbox One exclusive. I was expecting a rather standard text-based adventure game – your typical wall of words broken occasionally by a choice selection. What I got, however, was a very cool look at how the game will use real world tech.
5pb. Games began streaming the opening video for its Xbox One game inspired by the anime Psycho-Pass, Psycho-Pass: Sentaku Naki Kōfuku (Psycho-Pass: Happiness Without Choice). The video features the opening theme "abnormalize" by Ling Tosite Sigure.
It will ship on May 28 for 7,800 yen (about US$65) for the regular edition, or for 9,800 yen (about US$82) for the limited edition. The limited edition with include a Dive to Psycho-Pass Psycho-Pass-ru Summer Premium Disc Blu-ray with added footage of Tomomi Masaoka and Yayoi Kunizuka. People who pre-order the game will also receive a special decal skin for the Xbox One console and a Dive to Psycho-Pass Psycho-Pass-ru Winter Premium Disc Blu-ray. In addition, the game will include voice samples by Takuma Tsurugi's lead voice actor Shinichiro Miki for use with the Xbox SmartGlass feature.
Pocket Gamer: Cave has released a new iOS and Android game in Japan based on the Psycho-Pass anime.
Psycho-Pass' appearance, and potential localization, could be just the start of a larger trend with Microsoft's newest baby
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S1 was good but S2 was trash. Here's hoping the movie will do the series justice.
Really? I stopped watching this anime after the 2nd episode... its just so freakn horrible. Not only is it a dumb idea... but its boring as heck.
I dont know where you heard that from but it actually made my soul weep just reading it. PP is a good anime but compared to escalflown,Evengelion,Full metal Alchemist,Tytania,Heroic Age, Log Horizon and so on, it doesnt hold a candle. The XB1 exclusives are flopping over there. And in a territory they rule. Bringing it to NA,UK would just be a waste of money.
It's as much an underdog as the 360 was. If Japanese games didn't sell on 360 rest assured they won't sell any better on Xbone.
This one title will not help sadly. So many more franchises come to PS or Nintendo consoles because of the amount of market share they have in Japan, which is already built up a lot there. Japanese devs that want their game on Microsofts consoles don't want it to be exclusive to Microsoft because it's almost suicide to do so in Japan. And even if it's profitable just in Japan on one console, they're cutting themselves out so much it's not worth it.
Agreed. Only one title is not enough. PS and Nintendo consoles already got otaku market with a lot of niche japanese games such as Neptunia, Akiba's Trip, Senran Kagura, Project Diva, Xblaze, Atelier, and even the popular Steins;Gate will get localize for Vita and PS3. I expect Psycho Pass will got port for PS and Nintendo consoles.
Yeah, while anime is popular outside of Japan, unless MS can secure more popular well known anime more known to the mainstream, the otaku probably still isn't going to care that much. If this were Macross, Gundam, Eva, FMA, or any number of other very well known anime's then I could see it making a huge difference, but a niche anime which only the most hardcore Otaku know about, and don't talk about much, or have huge mixed feelings on, isn't going to turn the tide that much.
If MS is looking at securing this market, then they should look at what the PSP did, the Vita and 3DS are doing now, what the PS3 has done for the past few years, and what the PS4 is likely to start doing very soon are doing. A few visual novels just aren't going to turn their tide for that target audience.
Otherwise, the console of choice for Otakus come from Nintendo handhelds, or PS consoles and handhelds. I dont' know if Otaku outside Japan are looking for more elsewhere.
It always botheted me how inferior anime gets games but not Attack on Titan or Death Note. I mean, sure, in Japan they have a few, but NARUTO and ONE PIECE? Every day a new entry. And DBZ games have become trash. Where's Hyper Dimension quality at? And how about giving Yu Yu Hakusho more than one lackluster PS2 title and a couple Game Boy games (Tactics was fun)?
Games don't do anime justice...
A lot of those inferior animes, as you put it, have rather low licensing costs which makes them more suitable for release outside Japan. More well known anime's have expensive licensing costs with their local distributors getting a cut, so they don't get localized because they just won't make enough money. Anime games are still pretty niche outside the most popular ones like DBZ. Things were good in the PS1/2 days overall, but yeah, we don't get nearly as many high quality anime games as Japan by a long shot.
