Thread 717852061

>>717852061 (OP)
Should have put metaphor and p3 on Switch 1

Atlus wins again.

>>717852061 (OP)
Yakuza sis...
Not one bought our leddit humor game...

Sales of everything are down

We're in the squeeze part of late-stage capitalism, shareholders are demanding rising prices, shrinkflation, and mass layoffs, all just to keep the line going up a little bit more

The proletariat (anyone who has to work for money) literally can't afford to keep pumping it

Probably the best investment you could make is in things people need with no alternative, products you could charge any price for and mistreat your customers anyway you want, but they HAVE to keep buying it

Video games aren't that product

>>717852819
People are sick of games that don't run on their PC or are the same rehashed concepts released ad nauseam.

>>717852819
I'm surprised people can't fucking see that people not having kids mean less people buying games

>>717852061 (OP)
Good. I hope this pozzed company went bankrupt.

>>717853208
People aren't having kids primarily because they can't afford housing

Housing prices going down are bad for everyone who already owns real estate

Capitalism as a system is so retarded that housing prices going down crashes it globally, which is what happened in 2008.

Your debt is actually turned into a commodity that is traded like stocks

The US government could EASILY build and provide free housing for 1 billion people.

It wouldn't even be an issue, the only issue is that it would crash the real-estate scam and capitalism is so retarded of a system it can't survive that.

AYO I JUST STARTED THE GAME AND SOMEONE ALREADY PUT RED HOUSES ON ALL THE SQUARES AND CHARGES ME A SUBSCRIPTION FEE ANYWHERE I GO

>>717852617
>Q1
Pirate Yakuza's launch was in Q4 of the previous fiscal year.

>>717854191
Then what does Sega released at the first quarter?

>>717852462
>P5X is Segas only lifeline
Persona 6 delayed another 3 years

>>717852061 (OP)
>sales drop when they release no games compared to quarter where they released games
no shit, why do people keep making these type of threads.

>>717852061 (OP)
What has Sega released recently?

>>717854287
Raidou remake, Persona gacha global launch, and some Switch 2 ports.

>>717854462
Raidou.

>>717853647
Boomers have their hugely ocer valued homes and have fucked everyone else over.

You'll hear neo-liberals like Musk saying people should have more kids while simultaneously supporting policies that make it harder to have kids.

Bros... looks like Raidou was a flop.

>>717852061 (OP)
SEGA IS DYING

SAVE IT, /V/

>>717854917
You're supposed to be fine relegating your children to a life eating bugs and plastic and living in a concrete box for 3000 dollars a month, plus tax and tip. You will own nothing and spend your life working to make the world even worse than it already is.

should've released hyneas fucking racist chuds

Raidoubros...not like this..

imagine if they didn't completely botch phantasy star online.
they would be catching FFXIV's rebound right now.

Why is everyone missing the "exceeded expectation" part?
They didn't release many games and expected sales to drop, but they didn't drop as much as they thought. What's the problem?

>>717857123
>Pulls game key card crap
>Sells like game key card crap

I spent the last decade begging for this crap, I guess that monkey paw is always a thing.

>>717853647
here's your (you), go back to plebbit

>>717853208
This

>>717853647
It's amazing how they keep thinking houses costing x 500% more has nothing to do with, and then they are the first ones to panic if their pensions get 1% reduction kek
Anyway they think the solution is raising prices instead of caring about people having kids. They will still wonder why people won't buy shit anymore

>>717852061 (OP)
Everyone's sales are dropping no one has any money anymore thanks to the trade war happening for no reason

>>717856923
Heh, it's musk's tranny kids plus other elites retarded kids the ones who will have to live within 4 billions pajeets

>>717853647
I am old enough to remember the prices of everything before and after 2008.
I got my first apartment 2007 and my rent was $650 plus water in a so-so neighborhood. In 2009 that same apartment rent went up to $940.
I used to go to taco bell at midnight and pick up a giant stack of tacos for my friends and I for $5. In 2009 was the first time I saw the price for a standard taco go up to $1.
$100 at the grocery store gave me enough food for 2 months if I preserve the meat correctly. $100 now doesn't even last me a week.

>>717861657
Yeah as much as many are trying to derail to square Enix truth is a lot of japanese games are flopping

>>717861742
And then they say
>You see immigrants are poor and still have kids!
No shit, they don't pay taxes, get free everything and food stamps lmao

Just fucking revive shining force already.

>>717857074
kek

>>717861834
Not to mention birthrates drop down to match natives by the time they get to 3rd gen immigrants

surely now, they will remove denuvo from the old yakuza games right

>>717862046
But those immigrants don't consume much, they are not intellectually too high to be invested in movies (at most dragon ball). Companies are going to Pikachuface when entertainment has a HUGE fall in decades, because autistic consumers didn't reproduce. Black women besides all their forced representation are not even interested in movies.

>>717862185
Doesn't help the fact that they drank the entire Streaming Kool aid and fucked entertainment forever, and vidya looking at Hollywood wants a piece of that.

Bollocks.

>>717852061 (OP)
Guess rereleasing Persona 5 a thousand isn't a viable move

Invest in AI
It will fix everything

>>717863215
Funny because the Persona 5 gacha was the one thing which gave them more money.

>>717852617
Did you know the people translating the modern Yakuza games are the same ones who translated Metaphor?

>>717852061 (OP)
I saved persona.

>>717852617
I like Yakuza but I don't care about Majima and I don't like pirates so I had no interest in his game

>>717852819
>We're in the squeeze part of late-stage capitalism
this time for sure, after 200 years the marxiste will finally be right!!

did they put anything out Q1? nothing jumps to mind aside from ports

>>717852061 (OP)
what kind of meaningless statistic is this? of course the sales fluctuate when they dont release any new games.

>>717857123
they should stop demaking games.

>>717852061 (OP)
the sales drop because they have made craps

>>717852061 (OP)
Sonicbros...

invest in plumbing and toilet paper and wipes because the alternative is indiamaxxing.

>>717852061 (OP)
Release Persona 6, dumbass nips.

>>717852061 (OP)
kek

Personasissies...not leik dis.....

>>717853647
>it can't survive that.
>which is what happened in 2008
I dunno buddy sounds like it survived to me

>>717878335
With billions of dollars to banks so they could continue making money doing nothing but just loaning out money they don't have, collecting interest from people who actually work and do productive things, and trading/selling people's debt like stocks.

If it wasn't for that moment of communism for banks, then capitalism would have failed.

I mean, it would have collapsed, it already failed.

We never recovered from 2008 btw, look how fucked things are compared to pre-2008. We never recovered from WW1 and WW2. 2008 was just another slow step in the collapse of the west, the American empire, and capitalism as we know it.

>>717852061 (OP)
Maybe they shouldn't have deleted their entire back catalog of classic game ports

>>717857496
Not only that, they lost almost half a billion to exchange rates. Though there's a difference when you compare 2026/Q1 to the final 2025 report. Last year they used to have very good repeat sales of older titles, now in Q1 they were lower than expected.

>>717868562
>>We're in the squeeze part of late-stage capitalism
>this time for sure, after 200 years the marxiste will finally be right!!
Hopefully we'll get to there without mass destruction

>>717877365
I'm playing it, it's just too time-gated, since the only way to level the player character (whose level determines what persona you can get and increases caps on party members) is by doing daily quests and missions that require stamina, and the game isn't too generous when it comes to stamina potions. I feel like I'm leveling as fast as a F2P player can go and I'm at like 67, and the unlocks go up to 80 as of the current patch.

>>717880246
BABY BABY BABY BABY

>>717861657
Ive noticed, everyone is spending less money on everything, keep mind a lot of games got sale boosts during COVID 19 too

>>717868562
I mean, it's kind of undeniable at this point. CEOs are dreaming and gambling on AI garbage replacing everyone now to massively cut costs so line can keep going up.

>>717883005
>I mean, it's kind of undeniable at this point
Definitely this time for sure yep. Unlike every other year. THIS TIME IT'S FOR REAL.

>>717854353
>only lifeline
>when they expected so little that even with how bad it flopped it still was considered a success

>LMAO SEGA IS FAILING
>hi sales exceeded our expectations because our yearly budget accounted for a lower sales amount this year

/v/ reading fail

>>717852253
Why? Now they can put them on Switch 2.

>>717852819
capitalism has no stages

>Pandemic now fully over
>Everyone going back to doing IRL stuff again and not gaming like cave trolls all day
>ZOMG THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING IT'S OVER IT'S THE BOOMERS IT'S THE JEWS

This is happening to every shutin industry now that it's just going back to exclusively nerds again.

it's a good thing they are speed running p5x's death

Who has the money to buy an $80 dollar game?

>>717852462
>Downloads
the game is already dead btw

>>717852061 (OP)
>infect yourself with AIDS
>suffer
What did they think would happen?

Damn, that sucks. Maybe they should try double Denuvo next time, that will definitely make them more money.

>>717852462
>Downloads
More like 1.5 million reroll accounts.
Funny how they never use "sales".

>>717888035
Me. Shan't be paying, though.

>>717890002
kekkkk

>>717853647
>People aren't having kids primarily because they can't afford housing
Yeah you are a retard alright.

>>717852061 (OP)
I hope they fire some delevopers and manages to turn profit next quarter.

Not even shills are defending this crap anymore
https://youtu.be/dPMkC_3JOBU?=_sg-xsRlIfQGQo6t

>>717888035
everybody actually. There's a thing with poors and peasants that live in echo chambers thinking their poverty is normal. But thank god it's not.

>>717852462
>Downloads
UH OH

>>717887807
As if whales can read steam reviews. Poorfags opinions mean nothing.

>>717853647
>Capitalism as a system is so retarded that housing prices going down crashes it globally, which is what happened in 2008.
That is not what happened during 2008

>>717861834
Immigrants in the US pay taxes

>>717852819
>late stage capitalism
Fucking retard, no its called WW3 and it's been hot since 2020. Really its been going since tiktok became a thing

>>717887807
What happened lmao

>>717892921
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>717892921
I'm sure immigrants getting paid for looking at flies is a good investment, all why they keep replacing people who were the ones buying nerd shit

>>717891185
People are not going to have kids in some small shared houses anon. Boomers parents literally gave money to their kids so these ones started living alone and have their own space to fuck

>>717852462
>downloads
So rerolls, cause ive heard nothing but disappointment from that game

>>717852061 (OP)
I blame filthy pirates pirating their games for this decline.

>>717892921
I do

>>717893619
he means legal ones, not the border hoppers

>>717893880
P3R is still denuvo tho

>>717895115
Legal ones are shit too.

>>717852061 (OP)
>>717852462
Time to join the Umamusume train. It's wholesome and there is lots of support for your Umas. Plus it even has an Anime series you should watch as well.

>>717895152
Can confirm.

>>717895146
Pirates emulating the old games is why SEGA lost money.

>>717895187
who owns, publishes Uma??

>>717895235
Cygames publishes, Cygames also develops it. It's literally their cashcow and all they have that is doing extremely well. It's so important that it has MALE and FEMALE in the beginning when you choose your options.

They love to butcher the localization, deserved.

>>717886630
On a system with a substantially smaller install base and distribution options wildly unfavorable to third parties. Great idea!

>>717895214
I spend plenty money to play P3F and P4 tho.

>>717852061 (OP)
Grim

>>717852061 (OP)
That's how game releases and quarters work, retard. Still exceeded expectations.

>>717863215
On the contrary, they could do another release of the base P5 and it will handily sell more than a full remake of Shitsona 3

>>717852819
EU is communism
Corporate media is owned by WEF that runs EU
WEF is promoting communism
Nazi is National Socialism. Communism
CIA was run by Clinton. Democrat far lefts. Communism.

I think you're trying to gaslight here.

>>717854654
>>717854604
Wait, wtf. I knew it was announced, but I thought it was one of those "coming out next year" things, and I've heard nothing since. How was it?

>>717900238
If you liked Raidou back then you will love this one, is a genuine good game but with is caveats.

>>717900363
Never got around to playing the original or its sequel. All I remember hearing was to skip it in favor of the sequel, but I was busy with DDS1&2 at the time. Fucking hell was Atlus productive during the PS2 era relative to PS3 onwards.

>>717900238
They are so cucked by china and korea they censored the Japanese flags from the game.

>>717852819
>Sales of everything are down
Except Nintendo.
Nintendo is, as always, soaring.

>>717900438
It's almost like Nintendo released a new console with overpriced re-releases of their biggest last-gen hits.

>>717852462
And now it's going to crash thanks to Mister Slamjam

>>717852061 (OP)
Good. After what they did to pso2 i wanna see them burn economically

>>717854191
troomineko is fodder and loses to Ratchet
Featherine is weak when compared to Clank

>>717852253
Unironically this.
>Biggest install base of any console on the market
>Leave your biggest games off it
Retarded

>>717852462
Nintendo really fucked up by not buying Atlus when it had the chance

>>717893580
Three things
>Personafags inherently don't like gacha
>Accelerated release schedule to catch up to china but without enough compensation so it is a lot more P2W
>Holding back specific characters being added to the standard banner until 6 months after their release
The third one is what really killed the Steam reviews as it was hovering around 70% before they announced that.

>>717893580
Nothing, they had 1.5 million downloads on the first day of launch, which is very successful for a gacha. >>717852462

>>717880252
>F2P player can go and I'm at like 67
You could hit 70+ if you used gems for stamina instead of extra pulls

>>717883047
Communism being an absolute dogturd of an ideology does not absolve democracy/capitalism from its own flaws and pitfalls

>>717883005
The world needs more Luigis. They'll save us

>>717852061 (OP)
persona re-release is not a new title despite what sega thinks.

I played Persona and SMT games on the PS2, played Golden on Vita, but I have yet to buy a single Atlus title on Steam because they all have Denuvo.

>>717903303
You can pirate metaphor
Demo didn't had denuvo so game is free lol
Shit game tho

>>717903303
do they have a special deal with dejewvo? unlike crapcom, they never strip it

>>717900415
Because the combat of the original was a joke and improved a lot in the sequel. The remake fixed the combat to feel more like the sequel.

>>717900435
Burgers also raise a fuss about Imperial Japan whenever they are reminded of Pearl harbor.

>>717893580
the game came out in china a year ago. it is supposedly one of the more generous gachas. for the global release sega's gacha division was in charge of the localization and they went through the entire game and completely gutted all the rewards turning it into one of the most predatory gachas out there. the community is frustrated as they compare their version of the game to the chinese version that they all thought they were getting and were excited for.

>>717890576
>pic
fuck you too

>>717857496
Marketing tip: No company is going to come out and say "We're fucked bro!" until they are in the bankruptcy line. And even then they might not.

The entire reason these places have marketing departments is to spin everything into good news or make people think it is all part of some master plan.

>>717883005
Eh still not as bad as when CEOs would pay the police to go out and beat the shit out of people who thought about making unions. Or owned entire towns and payed you in company coupons.

Holy shit this thread is retarded

>>717852253
>Runs at 5FPS
Blame Nintendo for making a Fischer Price tablet instead of a console.

>>717852462
Now show the number of active users. Which has cratered since because Sega decided they needed $60 cosmetics like Dx2.

Sega and Atlus can make alright mobile games, but then completely fuck up the execution of user retention. Something Square has the opposite of (fucking up the money scheme). It's funny. I think P5X (bar the always online phone homes) is an alright game, but Jesus Christ the 10+ currencies and asking for money to speed up party levels is insane.

>>717857148
No one gave a shit about spaceslop in FFXIV.

Reminder

>>717854654
Literally told them in the Atlus survey to tell Sega to stop pricing ~20 year old titles "remade" at $70 if they want me to buy it day one. Even $60 is pushing it. I don't care how much they "updated gameplay" it's a fucking 20 year old title. Act like it. $50 at most. Especially if you're going to go full retard and cut content (like Episode: Aigis was for P3R) to sell later.

>>717877365
Reception at launch was good. Then it got datamined and spreadsheeted that Global/US is given worse items than China/Taiwan.

That's when the reception tanked. Sega was too fucking greedy too early instead of keeping players hooked before trying to Jew.

Just like Dx2.

>>717852061 (OP)
They didn’t release much so that’s expected. I’m personally looking forward to later this year. Sonic Racing: Crossworlds, Shinobi, and the Xbox port of VF5 REVO are all titles I’m planning on playing

>>717906293
HOLLY KEK

>>717852819
Capitalism has internalized its contradictions as "boom and bust" cycles and will not fail until the bottom has fully fallen out. We only have a Lumpenproletariat and they have no interest in forcing the contradictions on the capitalist class to bring any kind of change.

>>717906293
Oh so that’s who’s making these thread…

>>717908246
>Shinobi has Denuvo
Guess I'll buy Ragebound instead.

>>717852061 (OP)
>"This wouldn't be happening if they had just made [insert game here from a dead IP that you probably wouldn't have bothered playing anyway]!"
There, I summed up the whole thread without even having to read it. :^)

Roblox

They thought they could milk Persona spin-off slop forever, and as much as people said "we never asked for all these spinoffs, just make Persona 6", ATLUS did not listen

I thought they were the new SquareSoft but they get one big hit game and all of a sudden they're the new Square-Enix

fucking Japan, WHEN WILL THEY LEARN LMAO

>>717911479
>They thought they could milk Persona spin-off slop forever
And they were right. P5X is an ultra success. P3R Switch 2 port will sell millions. P4R will break the record.

>>717852061 (OP)
What do you mean people didn't want this?

>>717852253
switch 1 cant run either of them dipshit, even the steamdeck doesnt run metaphor well

>>717852462
>June
and in 2 months since then the revenue dropped 98%

>>717852462
How about they make the game actually global and release it in all countries. Some European countries aren't able to access it due to gambling laws.
Just let me play

>>717852462
And now the game is actually dying because Sega is fucking greedy and retarded. The game itself is actually good but nobody will know because Sega decided to fuck it in the ass for a quick cash-grab.

>>717911572
Not for a full price game, should have been 40$. I'm fine with the formula of A game year 1 and B game year 2 as long as the prices reflect the B game being a smaller project from the B team.

>>717899754
American brainwashing at it's finest

>>717888035
what Sega game is 80 dollars?

>>717887807
they had the perfect blueprint, just follow the Taiwanese version. Instead they said "what if we fuck over global players specifically"

>>717852061 (OP)
>don't put Metaphor on Switch, the device it would have easily sold best on
>constant CONSTANT fucking remakes
>MORE PERSONA, MORE FUCKING REMAKES OF PERSONA! HAHA
>butcher Raidou's story with current events and modern political shit (another ramke instead of a new game, lmao!)
They deserve it. Where's my nee Etrian Odyssey, you lazy fucks?

>>717912608
Nah, you're just brainwashed. Literally. All these are brainwashing you into believing the opposite.

>>717853647
Even if everyone had all the resources they needed, people still wluldn't be having kids
Wealthy people still don't have kids because they want to enjoy their life, not lose 20 years of it to babysitting
The ultimate problem is in an individualist culture that values personal happiness above all else
Impossible to last. Always kills itself eventually, since by nature it can't invest into the future.

>>717853647
Commies being retarded again, it would seem. You know the people having the most kids are low income, right? Kind of suggests that housing isn't the main culprit when every broke third world immigrant can somehow afford to have 5 kids. It's a cultural issue.

>>717917076
Capitalism is also at fault for making women's hypergamy.

Pretty much every single problem you can think of is either caused by capitalism or exacerbated by it.

>>717853647
>housing prices going down crashes it globally, which is what happened in 2008.
don't talk about shit you know nothing about. the bank kikes who orchestrated the bubble raked in mountains of cash and hit the jackpot when they were bailed out by the state
>>717917076
>the people having the most kids are low income
which aren't raised right. they don't send them to school let alone take them to the doctor or feed them properly. they're gonna end up being burdens on society. their only reason for existing is to make their parents money

>>717909692
Same, anon. Denuvo is basically a giant flashing "don't buy this" sign for me. I've got no interest in supporting devs that treat their customers like criminals. Ragebound might not have the same hype, but at least it respects your goddamn system resources. Let Shinobi rot in DRM hell, I'm out.