If Koei Tecmo is afraid of losing money thanks to the cost of duplicating discs, putting them in packaging and then shipping across the oceans to Western retail stores, then digital distribution can take a lot of that headache away, as well as ensure that every purchase is a real one, with no used sales to eat into profit margins. Things, however, have changed a lot since the PS2/Xbox days, most notably in distribution. The company’s two biggest cash cows are the Dynasty Warriors and Dead or Alive franchises, and most other titles play secondary or tertiary roles in comparison.
The number crunchers over at Koei Tecmo ran through the figures and decided they wouldn’t make enough money with a western/multi-platform release for the effort to be worthwhile. There’s really only one reason for this state of affairs.
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Obviously, the Fatal Frame series has had a long history on the PS2, and even original Xbox machines, although the last few games have been exclusively on Nintendo machines and, to add insult to injury for those in the West, the latest Fatal Frame game has thus far been only for Japan, so even English speaking Wii U owners can’t play it. The cost of developing a game for three different platforms is expensive, and if two of those platforms require AAA production values with extensive motion capture and detailed environments and physics to stand a chance at just getting noticed, it makes sense to scale ambitions back. It’s more likely that the series-which has never sold in huge numbers-had lower budget requirements.
It’s doubtful that this exclusivity is the result of aggressive corporate negotiations on Nintendo’s part. Fatal Frame has consistently been one of the most frightening horror franchises in the industry, and right now, Koei Tecmo has kept the niche horror franchise a Nintendo exclusive. Because players had to wait until ghosts filled up the frame to do the most damage, the Fatal Frame series has often been a harrowing, stressful experience fondly remembered by those willing to brave its distinctive Japanese setting. It’s one of the more off beat horror franchises in that the basic concept is all about fighting ghosts with a camera.
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It’s another thing entirely to make a free horror game that manages to scare just about everyone that played it, even though it took place largely in the same hallway.īut among the debut of new horror games like Alien and retreads of old, barely-horror-anymore games like Resident Evil, there’s one classic that remains a treat only for Wii U owners, Fatal Frame. It’s one thing to announce a sequel to a revered franchise like Silent Hill. which may go down in history as one of the masterpieces of marketing in the videogame industry. While The Evil Within didn`t have the universal acclaim that Bethesda was hoping for, Alien: Isolation managed to surprise everyone-including me-when it didn’t embarrass the franchise it was based on.
2014 was something of a mini-revival for horror games on consoles.
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