most western audiences have allergic to Mecha games.
I simply don`t like the genre.
Mechas just aren't my thing.
Yeah, this was me as well. I tried a bunch of mech games back in the day and they never clicked for me. I was going to skip AC6 but my trust in Fromsoft after 10 years of Souls-likes convinced me to give a different genre from them a try, but I still don't get the appeal of mech games. I'm like half way through my first play through and the levels feel like Dynasty Warriors with robots, in that most of the enemies are of no consequence or challenge, so you just mow them all down on your way through a bunch of levels that look visually similar, until you get to another AC or a boss. At that point, the bosses and other ACs are only slightly more interesting than the rest of the game, but not much more. I just don't get this genre.
I gave it a try back in the day and it didn't stick. Gave it a try again and still not my thing. Mechas just aren't my thing.
Ochitsuite Frieren sama
GAF, I hate all of you motherf**ckers, first with 13 Sentinels and now with Armored Core VI.....
Yeah, this was me as well. I tried a bunch of mech games back in the day and they never clicked for me. I was going to skip AC6 but my trust in Fromsoft after 10 years of Souls-likes convinced me to give a different genre from them a try, but I still don't get the appeal of mech games. I'm like half way through my first play through and the levels feel like Dynasty Warriors with robots, in that most of the enemies are of no consequence or challenge, so you just mow them all down on your way through a bunch of levels that look visually similar, until you get to another AC or a boss. At that point, the bosses and other ACs are only slightly more interesting than the rest of the game, but not much more. I just don't get this genre.
Ochitsuite Frieren sama
I don’t know about that, there is 5 or 6 AC games on the PS2 and combined they sold less then Fires of Rubicon as far as I know? Anyone with data?Guess Armored Core as a series never caught on in the west since the PS2 days. Remember barely any of my friends even knew of it.
Retail shipments on console were around 240k-250k. So PC + PS digital equals around 450k.
I'd estimate that puts the digital ratio for the PS4/PS5 versions between 40% and 60%.
Will you touch it with a 1 meter stick then?I still wouldn`t touch Armored Core with a 10 feet pole
PC gaming is growing in Japan, so that will increase the digital ratio over time.The digital share in Japan is huge for this game.
Maybe but it had more recognition back then. Armored Core 2 was everywhere because it was an early PS2 game.I don’t know about that, there is 5 or 6 AC games on the PS2 and combined they sold less then Fires of Rubicon as far as I know? Anyone with data?
Your only chance is Geoff Keighley. If he wills it, it will be so.What are the chances that Shadow of the Erdtree will drop this year? Two calendar years between the main game and the DLC looks pretty weird.
I gave it a try back in the day and it didn't stick. Gave it a try again and still not my thing. Mechas just aren't my thing.
You seem to be unaware of the success of Apex Legends/Titanfall
GAF, I hate all of you motherf**ckers, first with 13 Sentinels and now with Armored Core VI.....
Game reached a series record, Kadokawa just had Square-Enix' level type of bullshit sales expectations.Didn’t they sell around 3m recently? Wtf were their projections? Blinded by Elden Ring success.
He giveth and He taketh away.Your only chance is Geoff Keighley. If he wills it, it will be so.
Mecha are fucking boring, oh look I made a game about big robots, how original.
AC was on PC, FF wasn't.Might not be anything but a fun exercise: using this data, combined with Famitsu's opening week, estimating Final Fantasy 16 sales in Japan.
Just a rough estimate based on extrapolation; I'm aware of the difference of the period each game was available for sale.
- Armored Core Week 1 JP sales = 163,342
- Armored Core TD JP Sales = 700,000
- Final Fantasy 16 Week 1 JP sales = 336,027
- Final Fantasy 16 Week TD JP sales = ~1,439,900 (est.)
Oh, you think the bizarre is your ally? But you merely adopted the bizarre. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see normal until I was already a man. By then it was nothing but BLINDING!Armored Core VI is the best game that has been released in ages
The taste of most Modern gamers is like the direct opposite of my own I feel like I'm in Bizarro world