Nippon Ichi’s Salvation: New Disgaea on PS3
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 13, 2010 14:14 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Business, Disgaea, Marketing, Nippon Ichi, PS3, PSP, RPG
Nippon Ichi is set to announce a new Disgaea title for the PS3, in what is thought to be an effort to restore the company’s fortunes after a 100% drop in profits, a humiliating stock market plunge, and the dismal performance of its recent releases.
From Nippon Ichi’s own “the plan for next term” presentation:
“The Disgaea series – 1.6 million copies shipped!”
“Awareness and brand strength grow!”
[The top area of the graph is overseas sales, the bottom Japanese sales.]
The company also promises heavy emphasis on the North American market, although so far its efforts in this direction have been less than reassuring.
The actual sales figures for Disgaea reveal the brand is in fact dependent on an interminable series of handheld spinoffs and remakes:
Disgaea 124,316
Disgaea 2 150,428
Disgaea PORTABLE 50,966
Disgaea PORTABLE Tsushin 107,169
Disgaea 3 93,227
Disgaea Akaime (DS) 38,770
Disgaea 2 PORTABLE 101,688
Fans could be forgiven for thinking the reason the main Disgaea titles remain stagnant with PS1 era graphics and gameplay is so they can be easily milked on portable systems.
However, producing endless rehashes and a series of frankly embarrassing PS3 releases seems to have left the company in a state of creative and technical enervation. Disgaea 4 may be the company’s last chance to get back on track and rescue both the franchise and its increasingly tenuous financial position.
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I just can't believe that NIS America is getting into the anime business. Bringing Toradora (and others) to the US. Never thought I'd see NIS go that route.
The hell? where do you see Tora-dora in this article?!
on another note Great for NIS getting a rise back in stock really hate to these guys go.
NISA announced it yesterday along with persona trinity soul, pandra hearts, and wagaya no oinari-sama. I have no idea where NISA gets the money for all their side ventures. I just hope they keep enough for Ar Tonelico 3 and Atelier Rorona.
I think it'd be wiser for the standard Disgaea gameplay just to do releases direct to PSP or else soup up gameplay and graphics into some kind of enhanced 3d environment like they do with Phantom Brave.
I'm pretty sure anon was referring to their anouncement of bringing Toradora to the U.S. That in conjunction with a new Disgaea -might- just be enough to allow them to recoup. However, if they screw this up (it's curtains).
NIS and NISA are very separate companies. Please do not confuse them.
NISA is a joke. NIS is just misguided.
They're still part of the parent company though. And their decision to get into the anime distribution market is very much relevant to this story.
>Bringing Toradora to the US
How is this a bad thing?
It's such a simple solution, why didn't anyone bring it up sooner? Make new disgaea -> Profit!
1.)Make Disgaea using PS1 graphics and put it on highly advance technology
2.)Port to Sony's handheld with extras
3.)Port to Nintendo's handheld with even more extras
4.)????
5.)PROFIT!
Graphics are irrelevant, Disgaea brings the player hundreds of hours of level grinding, battles with seemingly no damage cap and cute characters. It's all a solitary gamer will ever need.
I like sprite graphics anyways, all the good old jrpg games had them so it's my comfort zone.
I think if they're going to make it for the PS3 they might as well doll it up a bit. I don't expect the best graphics but at least make it prettier. If not, they might as well make it straight for the DS and PSP.
Sony should really stop them releasing any more Disgaea 3-type games on the PS3. They just make a mockery of the platform and its potential, let alone what they say about NIS.
What is Sony doing all these while, releasing the PS2 and PS3? Didn't they get the memo that graphics are irrelevant?
We could have been happy playing MGS2, MGS3 and MGS4 in PS1 graphics quality!
Since when making games are restricted to "underusing the platform's potential"?
Does mean you'd rather have Disgaea to be on the Wii and deprive many Disgaea fans of their love?
I sure hope that isn't an insult to Wii owners -_- We equally love the series despite hogging Fire Emblem ^_^
What I would like to see sometime would be some decent multiplayer action and a Fallen Angel Flonne mode where teaching the Netherworld denziens Love and Peace! with massive Holy explosions :D
Either that or an Etna Mode that vastly differs from the main game.
If they REALLY needed to make money they could fix D3's slowdown and make a combination disc of all 3 or release 2 as a DS game.
"What is Sony doing all these while, releasing the PS2 and PS3? Didn't they get the memo that graphics are irrelevant?"
"We could have been happy playing MGS2, MGS3 and MGS4 in PS1 graphics quality!"
Wrong. I love each MGS for its graphics as well as its gameplay. And I'm sure you are on a minority if you think that.
Add 1080p sprites and --> Profit!
Well the fighting in Disgaea is rather entertaining. But unless they innovate a little... That's all they have going for the game.
Agreeable, but still good to see em finding a plan to rise out of finacial problems.
What I want in the next Disgaea:
1. Make Etna the main character
2. No male characters
3. Throughout the game, Etna assembles a lesbian-harem (including girls from previous games)
4. Yuri sex scenes, LOTS of yuri sex scenes
and maybe they could make the graphics a little better and improve on some of the other game mechanics
If there were no male characters the game would suck story-wise
If that were true, the Touhou games would suck story-wise.
OH WAIT
I fail to see how a story would suck simply because of the exclusion of male characters.
Quite. Think of the quality storylines anime like K-ON! and Queen's Blade bring to the table...
Doesn't the quality of the storyline depend on the skill of the writers though and not the gender of the characters? The reason most stories that only feature female characters lack a decent story is because they're usually made for a niche fanbase (K-on for moe fans and Queen's Blade for ecchi fans). That doesn't mean it's impossible to make a good story with only female characters.
Name one animu with an all female cast that has a good story.
They always focus on lesbian fanservice horseshit, or it's just one dimensional Cute Girls Doing Cute Things, teehee!
Queen's Blade had one shota
17:37
Bubblegum crisis?
actually, there were guys in that, but they generally were more supporting than main story.
Silent Moebius? Then again, I'm not sure I'd count that one as necessarily good...
Prinny is the main in Disgaea Infinite. He can then take control over other character like Laharl and Etna to get different perspectives.
Simoun
Kashimashi (lol gender bender)
Blue Drop
Read or Die and Read or Dream
Azumanga Daioh
although there were male characters in theses shows, the most important ones were all female
your worst comment ever, nee-san
Yeah just because you eliminate the male character doesn't mean you have a "chance". besides if their lesbians they aint gonna be looking for penis.
Etna already has a harem, however she's much more of a shotacon then a lesbian...though that could be an interesting plot device as well...
rule one: lesbians rule
"restore the company's fortunes..."
For their sake, they'd better make it work...
We need a new Disgaea as much as we need Furry sex.
damn, i didn't know that we were in such desperate need of a new disgaea.
If they wanted more moneys, they can also release it on the 360. Just look at the sales numbers. More people own the XBox 360.
Yeah 95% of them only play retarded shooters because they are retarded like everyone from the US =)
Amen, brotha. They're all just a bunch of fat, profane, trigger-heads with IQ's to match their system (if you drop the 'X' and the '0').
I actually agree. Most 360 owners, who are mostly Americans, just can't get enough of their HAELOW THREEY and CAWWLLL OFFVV DJUUUTEHHH.
It's because of these people that the gaming industry is slowing down on innovation. It's enough nowadays to push out a game with PURRRTEH pixelshaded fullscreen particle effects in OMGWTFULLHD, but with gameplay as innovative as BUNNY HOP BUNNY HOP HEAD SHOT HEAD SHOT.
While I hate to stereotype gamers, I have to agree that most Xbox fans seem to think that:
a lot of guns + realistic blood = best.game.ever!
Wtf comment..
Fuckin Weekabos
BUNNY HOP BUNNY HOP HEAD SHOT HEAD SHOT
If Disgaea went to 360, It would sell worse and NIS would surely die out.
They arnt Square america, they wont put a classic on a shitty system like the 360.
Yeah, look at ToV shitty 360 sales. Where was the support for that?
Dammit NIS, go and kick some major ass on this comeback...
Bring on a hell of a lot more Angelic DFC's, Demonic Lolis, and maybe have said lolis get some guro treatment to attract the 'hardcore' FPS gamers...
Oh, and some oppai guro wouldn't hurt either...
Just enough to bring the title to an M at least...
if they could just do some cheap flash animation tricks for the dialog and cut-scenes they might have a chance. If they try polygons they're doomed.
Though what they've doing with Disgaea Infinite is what they should have done with Disgaea 3.