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submitted 9 months ago by yamanii@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

Yamamoto: As a publisher, we would like to deliver it to PC users as well, but per our agreement with Vanillaware, we are only releasing on console. In other words, there are no plans to port it to PC currently.

Did a PC gamer piss on Itsuno's mom or something? Even smaller companies like Falcom, Compile Heart and Tamsoft released their games on steam, but Vanillaware continues to refuse to do so. This is so puzzling when you combine it with the other news that they ran out of money as they were developing it.

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[-] kftX@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

It's fine Vanillaware, we'll keep pirating and emulating your games and play them anyway.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Such a shame, it's so awkward controlling the cursor with a dpad and selecting all units while holding A, already played the demo.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In Japan PCs always had this weird association with porn, and Japan wouldn't be Japan without all the antiquated traditionalism, so PCs fell out of favor for a while. Now that they've noticed PC as a gaming platform prints money in ludicrous amounts they've started changing their minds... So it's a matter of time until the boomer execs get a stroke or something and younger people take their jobs, really.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 11 points 9 months ago

Weird, considering how low quality Japanese porn games usually are, and how big the porn industry in Japan generally is. But hey, even Sony saw the light, and overall actually does a half decent job with most of their ports.

Though, we've heard the whole mantra of the death of the gaming PC for decades in the West too. And if anything, consoles got closer and closer to PCs, so arguably it seems kinda the other way around.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago

thats just due to market size.

virtually anyone can watch an adult video without context. not everyone can play a japanese game with no context. the latter also takes more time to develop.

thr console pc paragdim imo started to switch around when consoles are no longer bleeding edge tech. although price/performamce optimized, they are no longer considered visually the best experience, and everything outside of switch carts needs a digital connection to update. on the PS3/360 launch, their performance was considered high end. Nowadays consoles release with middle of the pack performance to minimize cost. Consoles are slowly losing their plug and play status and resorting to other methods of monetization.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Weird, considering how low quality Japanese porn games usually are, and how big the porn industry in Japan generally is.

This is precisely the reason why though, in Japan porn games have existed since the introduction of the home computer and they flourished because of the lack product standards in the platform. With the release of the Famicon, consoles started getting really popular to the point where many devs and consumers stopped buying PCs for gaming, and since Nintendo (among others) enforced strict standards porn games obviously weren't allowed on their platforms. After a while, because of this shift most games available on PC were Visual Novels, many of them having porn in it in some form or another, so the platform got increasingly associated with pornography and a stigma was created.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I thought Nasu was the last one of these dinossaurs, since even he caved in and now the Tsukihime remake is on PC after he said that it wouldn't be.

[-] dvdnet89@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago

even Fate stay night have they own official Steam page and it is great

[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

You can find it in your nearest Ryujinx so it’s ok.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

The way I see it, there could be three things going on: 1) Vanillaware was so done with this game after ten years of development and didn't want to spend a minute more contributing to their first PC port, 2) they are still ignorant/disbelieving of the recent ascendancy of the PC market despite Sega and Atlus surely pushing otherwise, or 3) someone high up at Vanillaware doesn't want mods.

We've seen the aversion to modding for whatever reason with Japanese developers for a while now. Sometimes they get fiercely protective.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

Yuzu don't have to play it only on console, thankfully there's solutions.

[-] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

I would have really loved playing this game on my Steamdeck but looks like the only way that’s happening is with some sprinkles of what Nintendo calls piracy

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