Japanese Niche Games Deals & Discussion Thread 4.0

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Welcome to the Japanese niche games deals and discussion thread!  Feel free to talk about local and import Japanese games here.  Our goal is to maintain a thread dedicated to active deals on niche games including RPGs, Visual Novels (VN), Shoot'em ups (Shmups), Musou, etc.  Also maintained are pre-orders for standard, limited and collector's edition games with key release dates provided.

I've wikified the thread to make it more friendly and open to others that can actively update with important information. You can find the wiki post directly below this one.

NOTE:  Please, leave the censorship discussion away from this thread.  It's common for japanese games to have questionable content outside of the country.  We want to keep discussions to the game itself and not about cultural/societal tolerance.

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Our moderators are: Draekon, Las_Hole, and Waffleswanton

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tsoul said:
I hope the 2 Atlus titles announced on June 7 isn't Dancing Moon Night and Dancing Star Night. It was pretty obvious they would be localized to the west.

Please be a bigger surprise!
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I don't think Atlus would make a major announcement at an American trade show. Let alone a pre-thing to the trade show. Other than a few seconds in a couple montages Persona 5 never had a presence at E3 or the Playstation Experience.

The two new games probably will be the Persona dance games. The week leading up to E3 is when we learned about Persona 5's release date and SKUs.

Even though we pretty much knew these announcements were coming they're ones I've been waiting for. I hope we get full details on all the SKUs. Including digital. I want to know all the ways we can get P4D as well.

 
Olengie said:
Is this really a bomb when you consider how much they are making off each copy and how thin the content is? Not to mention digital sales. At retail alone, the triple pack is like 170 bucks and the twin pack is 160 bucks. The base games on their own are 75 bucks on PS4 and 70 bucks on Vita.

Persona 3 and 5 Dancing cost as much or more, and if you look at how much money they made from the sales, it's more like:
27000x$170 = $4,590,000
21500x$160 = $3,440,000
7800x$75 = $585,000
4500x$70 = $315,000
3000x$70 = $210,000
3000x$75 = $225,000

$9,365,000 at retail alone, before digital. And we know Persona sells well digitally. Sure, for "two games" I'm sure Atlus expected to milk fans hard and sell even more, but even this "disappointing" result is making them more money than P4D did at launch. Just to put things in perspective.
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Lol they dont actually make what the product sells for in any place in retail or digital btw

 
It sold about 2/3 what P4 DAN did in the first week. Underperformed, maybe, but bombed?

Edit: Physical only, for both. Likely sold more digitally than P4 DAN, so it's probably even closer overall.

 
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Supplice said:
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight Hit PS4, PS Vita Early 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtbjStPDs_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0YpE76JQoM
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Hmm, that's further away than I was expecting...

Tothoro said:
Atlus confirmed via Facebook that there will be no physical versions. RIP.
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Wait, what? That's pretty bad of them....

I don't feel so bad for importing them since their localization is so far away. But if there's also no physical versions then I'm really glad I decided to import them

 
Tothoro said:
Atlus confirmed via Facebook that there will be no physical versions. RIP.
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Thanks for the info. That really sucks. I'll definitely by waiting for Asian/English versions down the line or for the Japanese versions to drop quite a bit in price, which they will at some point.

 
The Vita production line stops production March 2019 and physical games have to be registered as such by the end of this month. I can already see the posts about how LRG managed to get an already published Vita game announced physically so a game still in localization for the west could have done the same thing.

 
If you want to import: It's $63 per game plus $10-30 shipping (one charge) depending on if you want it in a bubble mailer or a box. The Limited Edition with all 3 games is going to run closer to $150 and all DLC (which there's plenty of this time around) will be incompatible unless you wipe the Vita and sign in to a Japanese PSN account.

 
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I realize I should have clarified - yes, I was talking about the Vita versions. Thought I was in the Vita thread when I posted that. PS4 will still be getting physical editions, as I've been informed several times.

 
Tothoro said:
I realize I should have clarified - yes, I was talking about the Vita versions. Thought I was in the Vita thread when I posted that. PS4 will still be getting physical editions, as I've been informed several times.
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Yeah, I assumed you meant Vita since PS4 very rarely gets digital-only releases. All good.

My imported copies are the Vita version, since I knew I'd get the localized versions for PS4 eventually. Without really overthinking it I made a good decision lol (Since publishers refuse to make physical copies of games for a 'dead' system)

 
Olengie said:
Oh boy. More Neptunia.
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Neptunia and Atelier have been separate from them for a while now.

E: In the case of the latter they did utilize the same localization crew for a while but now switched to a cheaper subs only release.

 
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But imagine if NISA announced they got Kiseki.

Also watch Danganronpa be announced for Switch

 
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I doubt they'll get Kiseki. Danganronpa on Switch is possible, but I don't think Japan has it?

It'll probably be that Makai game though. And Liar Princess.

 
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Watch it be CS3.

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roger watersmelon said:
So if you select "No" does the game just say "Thanks for Playing" and then shut down?
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I've gone through a couple and answered No. While I haven't done that one, they'll steer the topic back to whatever they were talking about. The most meaningful choice I think I got was Vert asking if she should wear glasses again.

 
Outside of the Big Neptune scenes, everything else is just the characters visiting after the events of Neptunia VII. You have to play through the entirety of VII to get them all.

The game does a few split second checks (with audio queue) to see if you're looking at certain places which also makes the dialogue vary slightly.

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Supplice said:
Sekai Project Reveals Console Initiative “Sekai Games;” Announces Games for PS4 and Switch
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How about they release the games from their LRG partnership first before announcing "Sekai Games"

https://gematsu.com/2016/06/fault-milestone-one-rabi-ribi-coming-ps4-ps-vita

I know Rabi Ribi came out but I'm talking about the physical edition for that one.

Narcissu PS4/Vita

Fault Milestone One PS4/Vita

World End Economica Episode 1 PS4/Vita

World End Economica Episode 2 PS4/Vita

World End Economica Episode 3 PS4/Vita

 
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Olengie said:
How about they release the games from their LRG partnership first before announcing "Sekai Games"

https://gematsu.com/2016/06/fault-milestone-one-rabi-ribi-coming-ps4-ps-vita

I know Rabi Ribi came out but I'm talking about the physical edition for that one.

Narcissu PS4/Vita

Fault Milestone One PS4/Vita

World End Economica Episode 1 PS4/Vita

World End Economica Episode 2 PS4/Vita

World End Economica Episode 3 PS4/Vita
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This. So much this. I'd love to hear their excuse for why none of these have updates.

 
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