Hardcore Gamer: Looks like the folks over at Nippon Icchi Software aren’t feeling too optimistic about the future of their flagship Disgaea franchise and their company overall.
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.
Welp, I know what I'm going to get everybody for every special occasion next year.
What a dumb decision and statement coming out from someone who knows that they are on very thin ice. Honestly, it just makes me believe that these companies want to actually fail.
Disgaea 3 sold 470,000 + 240,000 (Vita port) worldwide.
Disgaea 4 sold 540,000 + 110,000 (Vita port) worldwide.
Disgaea D2 sold 180,000 worldwide.
And the first 2 Disgaea games only sold around 300,000 each.
Seems like the sales have been strong and steadily increasing for every game but D2, which seems to have bombed for some reason. No love for Laharl? Anyway, it seems pretty likely that Disgaea 5 will sell in the same 400k range as its immediate predecessors.
Can't they just delay the game for about a week or 2 until the hype around bloodborne dies down? Also maybe they need to start expanding the fanbase, the disgaea series have always been a niche title.