Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile series producer Yoshinori Yamagishi has left Square Enix, the developer announced on Twitter.
“It’s sudden, but I’ve resigned from Square Enix as of March 31,” Yamagishi said in a tweet. “Therefore, I’ve also retired as producer of Valkyrie Anatomia. I hope to make a new game at a another company in the future, so please remember me again when that time comes. It’s an announcement on April 1 so… whether or not you believe it is up to you.”
During his time at Square Enix, Yamagichi was the producer of every title in the Star Ocean series, excluding Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness and the smartphone game Star Ocean: Anamnesis, the producer of every Valkyrie Project game, a,dnt he producer on a variety of other titles including Grandia Extreme, Radiata Stories, Soul Eater: Monotone Princess, MindJack, and Shinsei no Grand Union.
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In an era dominated by digital downloads and streaming services, the importance of physical media in gaming remains a topic of discussion.
Of course, Nintendo has always preferred physical sales, especially since they skew to a younger audience, and kids want games for their birthdays and holidays. They go to the store and pick the game they want.
Since the Wii they have always been the last major publisher to support modern tech or concepts, and they will be the last to support physical if it ever goes away. Which I hope it doesn't.
Nintendo just likes sales in general. If they can sell digital more, they would because the 2nd hand market they do not get a cut of. For me, i tend to buy more physical switch games than I do other platforms. I do have my fair share of digital deals from the eshop though. Especially if its something that i have a sealed physical copy of and dont want to reduce its value.
OK, but you need better format where these games could actually fit instead of half of the game being in physical form and all I have being on a digital code or have to download
The one caveat with cartridges. If the leaks are true the internal storage stands at 256gb plus SD card support too.
You could have a 256gb card and a 10gb card. Publishers will simply use the 10gb one and make you download the rest.
There are cards that can fit all of a game but those cost more, and publishers are cheap. It's weird cause with how much the switch has sold and how long it's been on the market the costs to manufacture these cards should've been much lower by now. It's a publisher issue cause there has only been very few exceptions on PS and Xbox, rest of the industry would rather force a download despite Blu-ray being cheap.
Your right. It's definitely a publisher issue. From my time collecting that's what I've come across. Just always remember
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Tell you everything you need to know about releases.
Pretty sure most, if not all, of Nintendo first party titles are all on cartridge. It’s the third parties.
Yeah it artificially retains the high prices for their software. Hence Pirates will always have their day with them.
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This guy looks like shigeru miyamoto and eiji aonuma combined into one?
He worked on two series that I dearly love and I hope Star Ocean carries on, the latest one was a joy to play. The story was melodramatic as it often is. I hope the HD version of the ps2 game releases in the West. The series could use more love and I want to play a new gen Valkyrie profile game, the ones on ps2 and psp were awesome.
Hopefully he forms a new company