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Limited Run Games - Putting digital games into your hands

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Hobbun

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Wow, that’s a ton.

I can’t think of one, either, that would warrant that many copies. Maybe Cosmic Star Heroine?

Edit: I’m thinking it has to be Rainbow Moon. That game has sold well for EAS. I think they said it has been downloaded around a million times? So I can see 10K for the PS4.
 

dallow_bg

nods at old men
10k copies for PS4 alone? I can't think of any title that'd warrant so many copies.

Wow, that’s a ton.

I can’t think of one, either, that would warrant that many copies. Maybe Cosmic Star Heroine?

Edit: I’m thinking it has to be Rainbow Moon. That game has sold well for EAS. I think they said it has been downloaded around a million times? So I can see 10K for the PS4.

Josh said it's popular and has dedicated fans.
Maybe Rainbow? But I don't know.
 

Hobbun

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I think Rainbow Moon would be a mistake. No way that will shift that many copies.

Could very well be an unannounced title.

I don’t know, I think you are underestimating Rainbow Moon.

EastAsiaSoft said:
Today, Eastasiasoft Limited—the Hong Kong–based developer and publisher of interactive entertainment— have announced that their best-selling role-playing game Rainbow Moon will launch on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system in the Americas on February 16 and in Europe on February 17.
Rainbow Moon for PS3™ and PS Vita has been included in the top 10 games on PlayStation®Store charts on multiple occasions and downloaded over 1 million times worldwide. The upcoming PS4™ release features updated dialog and improved load times in addition to everything else that made the game so popular.
 

Hobbun

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PS+? It did say "downloaded" and not "sold".

Yes, that is true.

Either way, the game has apparently sold well for them, their best-selling game yet. Enough to justify a sequel.

It could be another (unannounced) game, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if it does end up being Rainbow Moon.
 
So saw one of the guys from Limited Run talking to 17-Bit on the E3 show floor. Putting my bet in now for Galak-Z.

Page me if I'm right :p

P.S. This would only be on PS4. While the devs could make a Vita port now with the optimizations they made for tablet, I was told that it wouldn't be profitable at this stage in the game.
 

Shizuka

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I'm not fond of Vita versions consistently getting less copies when the demand is arguably higher and/or stronger. Numbers speak for themselves, they know how long it takes to sell X amount of copies of the Vita versions against PS4 versions. But that's old news, I want to know which game would warrant that many copies. I'm thinking Skullgirls.
 
I'm not fond of Vita versions consistently getting less copies when the demand is arguably higher and/or stronger. Numbers speak for themselves, they know how long it takes to sell X amount of copies of the Vita versions against PS4 versions. But that's old news, I want to know which game would warrant that many copies. I'm thinking Skullgirls.

That's a good guess
 

Hobbun

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Does Rainbow Moon have "dedicated fans"? No one ever talks about the game.

Problem with saying “popular” and “dedicated fans” is that it’s so subjective and hard to measure. I could see LRG throwing that description out there, as it does have a pretty dedicated fanbase, whatever size it is.

I'm not fond of Vita versions consistently getting less copies when the demand is arguably higher and/or stronger. Numbers speak for themselves, they know how long it takes to sell X amount of copies of the Vita versions against PS4 versions. But that's old news, I want to know which game would warrant that many copies. I'm thinking Skullgirls.

Yeah, I could see that.
 

Shizuka

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HM wouldn't be redundant if both 1 and 2 are on the cart/disc. The JP release only has HM1 on the media, with a download code for HM2.

You can bet we'll get "redundant" releases. Skullgirls and Hotline Miami, as we know Devolver wouldn't go through the trouble of bundling and programming two games on a single disc/cart.
 

dallow_bg

nods at old men
Skullgirls would be more redundant but I can see why they'd want to release it here.
And yeah, I wouldn't bet on a true bundled release for Hotline. If they ever did do those games it'd probably just be separate releases.

I'd be cool with that though.
 
what's the problem with releasing those games? Its not like there is a super limited number of slots and they'll rob another game of its chance. Just don't buy it.
 

Okay, that's insane. And I know I'm like a broken record at this point, but the game most deserving of such a big physical run was Oddworld. I mean c'mon, an established IP from the PS1 era with a lot of nostalgia with PlayStation gamers and it got a run half the size of whatever this is. Better be good!

I kinda feel like we're moving past the realm of 'limited run' now as well (although technically it still is). Willing to bet that 10k is more than Soedesco printed for some of their physical runs which never seem to sell out.

While I'm on my soapbox, I'm also not a fan of the differences between the versions for something like this. Although I understand there's a ceiling for Vita demand compared to PS4, it really does just push all the scalpers towards one version. And it's not like Vita fans haven't shown continued demand for this stuff, though I guess as long as the PS4 version sells out eventually LRG don't mind.

(Despite all this moaning, I'm still happy LRG are doing what they're doing, don't get me wrong).

Anyway, with that out of the way, what could it be? Some good suggestions already, of which Skullgirls seems the most appropriate.

I'm trying to think of bigger indies that are on both platforms - Bastion? Don't Starve? OlliOlli 1/2 double pack? Spelunky? Steamworld Dig/Heist double pack? Velocity Ultra/2X double pack? Do Devolver Digital still hold the licence for Duke Nukem 3D? Maybe something like Croixleur Sigma? Perhaps a Double Fine game (Day of the Tentacle/Grim Fandango?)

Or hell, perhaps something upcoming - Banner Saga; Hyper Light Drifter etc. I just can't see anything that would cause such a discrepancy between platforms. Unless it was something like Guacamelee where the Vita version was clearly inferior.
 
And as a sidebar to what I said about, Octodad PS4 normal edition is still available now, ~23 hours after going up, while Vita versions sold out after a few hours? Again, I'm sure as long as all the copies go LRG don't care, but Octodad had a small discrepancy between versions; 5k is absolutely massive =/
 
What about Super Meat Boy? It had previously sold one million copies by January 2012 and a physical copy for the PS4 launched in the UK several months ago so, arguably, the foundations of the coding have been already laid out. However, I'm willing to side with the Skullgirls gamble with the recent Japanese release and the "dedicated" fighting community behind it, too.

I would love a physical Vita version but the PS4 version already gets a physical release in Europe.
 

Takao

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Are Nicalis games off the table? I can see 15k physical copies of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth being sold. The gap between the PS4 and Vita versions would make sense too, since Afterbirth on Vita got Nicalis'd.
 
I think it's probably Skullgirls, which has quite a dedicated following. However the game already got a retail release in Japan and Asia, so 10k+5k would be quite a risk.
 

kenta

Has no PEINS
"Dedicated fans" to me implies that there have been several games in the series and there's a reliable/proven fanbase that they're banking on showing up. I don't see how it could be a Kickstarter game or an indie release personally (though I'm still champing at the bit for Spelunky so I hope I'm wrong)
 
Wouldn't mind NA copies though.

Why would you want a reason to buy another copy? Child of Light released a physical NA version a year or so after the UK release and that was pretty annoying to double dip on that release in order to maintain a complete NA library. If someone hasn't already bought the physical version of Hotline Miami and doesn't plan to, then they must not actually want one, and I don't see why they would even be asking for it then.

It doesn't matter what I think about it, though... it's going to happen, like Shizuka said. People keep asking/arguing for it, Devolver Digital is a big potential client with a lot of other games, and it would be the logical precursor to getting an actual Hotline Miami 2 cart in lieu of a highly unlikely duo cart.

Skullgirls I probably can't complain about, because they said they were eventually going to do a patched NA release multiple times and I kept my pre-order for the Japanese copy anyway... 'cause I can never be sure any Vita release will actually happen and I'm always worried some thing will become scarce if I wait and see.
 
Are Nicalis games off the table? I can see 15k physical copies of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth being sold. The gap between the PS4 and Vita versions would make sense too, since Afterbirth on Vita got Nicalis'd.

Makes sense and would cover the discrepancy. Same with Guacamelee.

I still feel they'd struggle to reach so many copies sold though.
 
I wonder why Yakuza 5 is impossible. Too high profile for Sega? Nagoshi hates money?

I've been wondering about this for days, too. Anyone care to speculate? Is there any licensed content in the game that Sega of Japan would have to re-negotiate?

Really curious to know what this 10k print title is.
 
Regarding the mystery 10k print game, it would be amazing if they did a physical print of "I Am Setsuna," which comes out next month. But I don't think Square Enix is all that good at cooperation in lending their IPs to other companies.
 

Skulldead

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Regarding the mystery 10k print game, it would be amazing if they did a physical print of "I Am Setsuna," which comes out next month. But I don't think Square Enix is all that good at cooperation in lending their IPs to other companies.

They can publish by themselves, they don't need a tier publisher for that...

10k/5k game on both console.... could it be Axiom verge ? Elysian Tales ? having a hard time to find a really popular game that came out on 2 console, Guacamelee ?
 
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