Getting to rent things forever is a "perk"? Getting to rent game "upgrades" which go away when you don't pay your rent is a "perk"? Having to pay just to get the opportunity to buy an overpriced classic controller is a "perk"?
I’m just saying that they didn’t announce POR because they don’t see it as a revenue draw in the US and the service is primarily to recover cost for hosting their online multiplayer content. Not sure why you’re trying to make this into some kind of argument. You’re welcome to bitch about SAAS in the Nintendo Switch thread or Louis Rossman thread or whatever. It’s not really relevant here.
This is the FE thread, how FE has been monetized is absolutely relevant.
Three Houses was JP-only? Because that is the best-selling game. Not sure what JP-only game you’re referring to.
I thought "largest cult following" and it being a JP-only release would be pretty good indicators that I'm referring to Genealogy.
Maybe for the boomers over at Serenes Forest but most of the fanbase have moved on. It wasn’t even the most popular game in Japan in its heyday. But I can tell you with confidence that Nintendo will never remake it or even give it much lipservice outside of some token nods and cameos. Nobody who worked on that game even works for IS anymore. Nintendo doesn’t like acknowledging Kaga’s existence. And It didn’t have the cultural impact that FE1–3 did (those games had a tremendous, lasting cultural influence in Japan). Add in the politically incorrect story elements and you have a game that will forever be locked in a vault. It’s ancient history as far as Nintendo’s concerned.
Do you not know what cult following means?
Sigh … I am still not over them fucking over playable Saias TWICE.
You said ‘largest cult following’ as if FE4 is the MM or FF6 of the series and maybe that was true in like 2007 but I don’t think that’s really the case anymore. As far as JP-only games I wouldn’t be surprised if New Mystery or Binding Blade get more attention now and that’s only looking at the English-speaking audience. Japan has a different view about the highlights of the series.
If we're talking about the JP fanbase, FE4 has repeatedly topped New Mystery and Binding Blade in twitter and Famitsu surveys.
Yes it’s strong but it’s not the ‘largest’ and it isn’t strong enough to get Nintendo to release it let alone translate it, remake it, whatever for the issues I said.
Prove it.
That's partly because people want something that's on a console than on a handheld.
SOV was the worst selling game since Awakening. There was never any indication it was profitable. It may have been, but we have no idea. It was given way too big of a budget and marketing push for its sales, IMO. Given we never got another remake, Nintendo probably wrote it off as a failed experiment.
According to said Famitsu survey it literally is since it beat out Awakening and Three Houses.
Again, prove it. Saying there was never any indication it was profitable (without any proof of that) as proof of it being a flop is disingenuous - where is the indication it was a flop? Did it not sell as good as Awakening? Absolutely, it was released at the dead end of the 3DS's life cycle, post-Switch launch, and was announced in the same Nintendo Direct as Three Houses. IS and Nintendo knew it wasn't going to sell as well as Awakening or Fates which is why they didn't give it a comparable marketing campaign, but that's hardly proof it didn't turn a profit.
The game released on the third-best selling console in history in the middle of its life-cycle with a massive marketing campaign sold better than the game released without any of that, how could this have happened?
Thats 2 or 4 in the series? Any emulations you'd recommend? (I haven't given Nintendo money for 15 years)
I'm not justifying that SOV was enough of a success for Nintendo, I'm saying it would have never been made by your own logic and yet it still was.
Again, you're just saying it was a failure, not actually showing any way it was. 'It didn't sell as good as Awakening' - it still sold over a million copies and topped sales charts. You know what game also didn't sell as good as Awakening? Engage - 1.6 million, compared to Awakening's 2.3 mil and 3H's 4 mil (not even impressive compared to SoV given the advantages it enjoyed) and you're not referring to it as a failure or a flop.
Because Engage isn’t the subject. Why would I talk about Engage when the subject is an official release/remake of FE4? I just used it as a comparison for sales numbers, not a benchmark. Do I ever say whether or not Engage is a failure?