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INTEREST: Konami to Sell 1st Nura PS3/Xbox 360 Game This Winter




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Anime Remix



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:22 pm Reply with quote
Hopefully is Viz gives this series a dub, then someone can release this game in America. I wonder how the game will be... Confused
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Primus



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:48 pm Reply with quote
Why even make a 360 sku for this? It's not going to sell anything.
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BigOnAnime
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:11 am Reply with quote
Anime Remix wrote:
Hopefully is Viz gives this series a dub, then someone can release this game in America. I wonder how the game will be... Confused

I highly doubt the game would come to America even if VIZ Media dubbed it (They probably will. I have to hear of them ever not dubbing a series.). People will end up having to import it. Luckily with the PlayStation 3 being region free, importing the PS3 version won't be much of a problem.

Also why have it get released on the Xbox 360? The Xbox 360 doesn't do so well in Japan (It took it such a long time to reach 1 million units.), so why?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:19 am Reply with quote
In case you didn't realize, the 360's really popular with otaku, so an anime game for the 360 isn't surprising in the least.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:31 am Reply with quote
360 is quite have stable fanbase. make sense considering porting game is near no cost and want additional income
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:48 am Reply with quote
Taiyz wrote:
In case you didn't realize, the 360's really popular with otaku, so an anime game for the 360 isn't surprising in the least.


Nura doesn't strike me as a series that is popular with Otaku (it's serialized in Jump, doesn't have some moe protagonist, isn't a shmup, likely won't be a dating sim, and doesn't feature panty flashes). I guarantee this won't sell more than 15k on 360. Which is 15k they likely could've got to buy the PS3 version instead (given there's basically no one who just owns a 360 in Japan).

Dragon Ball, and Naruto games get 360 skus because they have international markets. With those 360 skus selling anywhere from 5-8k in Japan. Nura's probably not going to do much better, and I doubt this game will leave Japan.
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