The success of Octopath is another reminder that quality single player games will sell well.
Last month, the beloved JRPG Octopath Traveler was banished forthwith from the Kingdom of the Switch eShop. Okay, if you'll excuse the dramatics, it was temporarily delisted with no official explanation as to why. Well the good news is that it's back, as confirmed by Square Enix itself.
Octopath Traveler delisted from the Nintendo eShop, leaving fans puzzled. Stay updated on this surprising turn of events.
Maybe due to it being published by square now has something to do with it. They delisted the Nintendo published version and will probably list the Square one going forward.
Go digital they say
Example after example shows why all digital isn't a good idea. Yet people still doing it.
NVIDIA announced that Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II are available on GeForce NOW.
0cctoparh Traveler is a reminder that a well timed rekease on a dry spell will guarantee sales coz there is nothing else to play on Switch.
I don't get how MS don't get what makes a console sell well.
It's like they forgot why the 360 had such a great start.
Price and great games will ALWAYS get get gamers, some consoles have at least one of these. For example the Wii, it only had a handful of great games. But was priced amazingly well.
The WiiU suffered the same lack of quantity of quality titles and had a ridiculous price.
The Switch, whilst not priced for the mass market like the Wii, has hit the sweet spot on price and has already built a library of quality games.
Sony learned the lesson in the Ps3 life cycle. It's funny how after the price drop, and games like Uncharted 2 started dropping that sales massively improved.
Thankfully they stuck with the great price at launch, and people can scoff at the launch exclusives, but that's a Sony thing, start of slow, the occasional gem, then diamond after diamond drop.
Fingers crossed they keep it going for PS5.
Then you have MS, who at the start of 360, had a great price, and quality exclusives. Yet took their foot off the gas and have never recovered.
They have the weakest line up of exclusives of all 3, and the X1X whilst has fantastic specs, has a price that rules out a lot of people.
MS should of taken a gigantic hit and launched the X1X lower than the Pro and the X1s lower than a PS4.
They didn't and are going to pay the price long term.
Congrats to Nintendo. Really heading good things about Octopath. Haven't seen a trailer for it too. So it will definitely be a purchase when I get a switch.
Let's be honest, if this had came out on ps4 or Xbox the release wouldn't have registered anywhere near as much due to the variety and quality of software on those consoles. Due to the switch really struggling for software it was always going to find a bigger audience there. People just want something to play. It makes sense.