NISA Would Like to Bring All Disgaea Titles to the Xbox 360/One

GamerFitNation: Recently, GamerFitNation was able to get some questions answered by NISA reps Phoenix Spaulding, script editor, and Chris King, marketing coordinator. NISA are the publishers of PlayStation’s Disgaea titles. GamerFitNation wanted to find out about the future of the company and what games gamers could expect to see in the near future. What we learned brought joy to our eyes. When asked, “Is there any game in the NISA library that you would like to bring over to the Xbox 360/One if possible?”

[OmegaShen]

Why? They wouldn't buy it, I think they are better off staying PlayStation only.

[admiralvic]

"Why?"

PR talk? A lot of NISA published titles are pretty niche and sell poorly even on the PlayStation 3 (like Mugen Souls. No clue why we're getting Mugen Souls Z). They're obviously going to answer something, since saying a random game isn't going to anger anyone or cause PR problems and they no doubt said Disgaea because it's their biggest / most popular series.

[rainslacker]

You don't know that they wouldn't buy it. Disgaea is a pretty popular series, and even Xbox only owners recognize the name. Same with Persona.

Here's the kicker though. Unless MS gets something going in Japan this gen, it probably won't happen. These games are made for the Japanese market, and Japanese devs are going to produce the game where they get most of their sales. Disgaea is pretty big in Japan. Here it is more niche.

@admiral
Disgaea isn't really niche anymore. However Mugen Souls is, along with several other titles they produce. They aren't terribly niche in Japan though, and it doesn't cost a whole lot to translate, so they obviously make enough profit to bring them out. Things like Mugen Souls, Atelier, etc, are all running on the same engine, using mostly the same game play mechanics, etc to make development costs low enough to sustain profit.

That's all fine for me though, because I am part of the niche. I would like to see more sales from these series though, even if it means multi-platform production, just so there is more incentive for companies to produce and localize them.

[ZodTheRipper]

I honestly don't think more than 20% of Xbox owners know about Disgaea.

I hope they make a next-gen Disgaea though.

[Dread]

Whatever dude. I would buy it immediately.

[maniacmayhem]

That would be awesome. this game deserves more recognition and cross platform play. I also think this game would fit well on a Nintendo console too.

[admiralvic]

What did you really expect them to say? Disgaea is the only Nippon Ichi series that is truly popular and its not like they would say "we don't want our games on the Xbox."

[zippycup]

i am a big fan of disgaea games curently palying the vita vesrsion only 200+ houers in hopfuly can get another 100 or more out of it hehehe

and althoug i am a sony fan i would love to see them on 360/1
more sales means more money means nisa can bring more rpg over to us its a win win situation

i now sony and microsoft want to keep as meany exclusives as they can but nisa could bring in someany more rpg if they had the money for it and crossplatform would be great for them

[Godmars290]

More sales also means more production costs in order to make it available on other platforms. Which is where the concern for how it will sell on those other platforms.

Also an issue of making exclusive content which automatically alienates your older, larger, fanbase.

[zippycup]

i see your point gues i will have to learn japanise and import more rpg's honestly i was born in the wrong continent bubble for you godmars

[sypher]

I guess it depends how big of a base that would appeal to on the 360/One.

My guess is that anyone who is a Disagea fan already owns a PS3.

[rainslacker]

As a Sony fan I can say that I hope that Xbox only owners who have never had a chance to play these games(or any other NISA/Atlas/Hatsune) game, be able to play them. They are superb games, and the hardware that plays them is irrelevant to that.

I would love nothing better than the JRPG to make a comeback to it's PS1/2 glory days and have more people on consoles playing the games. Most of last gen was so dry on the home console when it comes to JRPG's as most of them had moved over to portable systems. It wasn't until the last couple years where a lot of JRPG's started showing up on home consoles.

Opening up third party games to more people should never become a console war fighting point. The more people that can play the kinds of games you like to play, the more likely that you get the type of games you like to play.

[Hicken]

I agree with the sentiment. I love NIS, Gust, ATLUS, and the rest, and I think their games deserve to be played by more people. But if their 360 endeavors are anything to go by, there just isn't much of a crowd on Xbox. Furthermore, those who own an Xbox and ARE interested likely already have a PlayStation.

I don't particularly have a problem with them saying this, but I don't think they'll actually go through with it, as even they must recognize that their already niche titles would not likely recoup development costs on consoles that don't do well in the Japanese market- where the games are generally the MOST popular- and don't have an audience that's very receptive to their types of games, besides.

[rainslacker]

Yeah, I don't really see it coming either. Just is kind of annoying people saying it wouldn't sell in what appears to be a rather shallow attempt to keep it PS exclusive.

Things that are niche I'd prefer to see get as many players as possible, and multi-plat is usually a good way to open that up. Otherwise, I agree, if they are into these games they likely have a PS or Nintendo system already. Overall these types of titles are why I get PS in the first place.

[strigoi814]

games like this wont sell on the MS console thats a fact..sorry Sony and Nintendo is the best platform for this kind of games. if this is about shooting yeah maybe

[Dread]

Lol

The top selling games for the Playstaiton 4 and 3 in the last few months
were COD Ghosts, Battlefield 4, and Killzone (for playstation 4 only of course)

[izumo_lee]

True, but why do you think there are so many of these really niche Japanese made games on PlayStation platforms?

The reason cause there is an audience for them as well for the games mentioned above. PlayStation has always been about diversity in the games offered on the Platform.

There is a reason there are 3 Neptunia games made for Playstation, there is a reason Mugen Souls got a sequel, there is a reason why the Atelier series are found on Playstation & there is a reason Disgaea stayed on Playstation.

Look at the history for Xbox and you will see there is hardly any audience for these types of games even when they release it here. Case in point the Agarest series, Xbox got a fancy over the top collector edition....no one cared for it.

until Xbox gamers prove they want these games the likelihood of them coming is very very slim.

[DanielGearSolid]

If you're a real fan of the series, you want it on every console, more exposure, hopefully more popularity, hopefully more sales, hopefully more money too keep series going strong, hopefully get stronger

[DCfan]

Let's look at Tales of Vesperia on the 360. Why didn't namco make another one??

[DanielGearSolid]

Tales was a timed exclusive for 360, if they released simultaneously for all consoles, I dont think any tales fan would have a problem.

They tried to expand their fanbase, thats a good thing... It just failed in that case

[izumo_lee]

It would be interesting to see but the likely hood of it happening is very slim. The majority of games made by Nippon Ichi are made on Sony's Phyre Engine. If developers are using Phyre Engine to make games on any Playstation platform the licensing of the kit is completely free.

Which means if Nippon Ichi decides to port games over to other systems they will have to pay for the licensing of the engine. Since they are a relatively small company that extra cost may not be worth it for them.

If the Xboxone becomes popular in Japan the percentage may go up, however history says that is very slim chance for the Japanese game scene to accept it.

[ONI5]

It would be nice to have more of those types of games on the XBOX platforms.

[DCfan]

You mean more games that bomb on the platform. Even Arc System Works gave up on MS's consoles.

[christocolus]

I hope Phil Spencer sees this.

[urwifeminder]

Never heard of it can live with out it.

[kenshiro100]

It won't sell very well.

Games like that do better on Playstation consoles.