Yo-kai Watch 4 flops in Japan

Fuck off kotaku

i mean people seem to give a shit about the females like renamon
like a fucking lot

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Furries are not people.

This is what happens when you only listen to corporate fuckers like Viz Media trying to show off their licenses and not fans who literally never claim that YW would be a Pokemon Killer

that design was made to be the comic relief of the anime tho, YKW is full of other great designs

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>YKW is full of other great designs

I don't know much about YW outside of what's posted on Yea Forums, but it sure looks like a good-sized chunk of its yōkai creatures are recolors/reskins/rehashes of the same two designs (the mascot cat and that other thing, you know which one I mean.)

Actually spoonfeed me, because I've only seen like a handful of yokai from the supposed hundreds that exist, which includes like four girls, Jibanyan and his countless clones.

Nintendo Treehouse actually did the localization for Yo-kai Watch 1 and 2.
After Psychic Specters I think they stopped and just published the games outside of Asia.

unfortunately it also has a lot of other, awful designs that were shown off in a lot of promotional shit
it does have good designs too, thats a massive issue that they seemed to only show off the decent ones and have these awkward, ugly, and super Japanese ones as part of the initial marketing
pokemons initial 151 weren't anything too oppressively Japanese and were generally just cute technicolored animals, so it wasn't just something that japanese audiences and massive weaboos could appreciate, yokai watch leans in way to hard and as a result just comes off less appealing to foreign markets, and seeing as how its bombing in its homeland those extra sales probably would have helped
if this was a general cryptid themed game with shit like chupacabras, big footsies and lochness monsters then it would have probably done better in the general market

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oh, only like 15% of the yokais are recolors (and since it has like 800 yokais in just 4 games, i guess it makes sense)
here are some, jibanyan has alot of clones becayse he is basically the pikachu of the franchise
yeah it sucks, most of my favorite yokai dont even have alot of merch

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>Yo-kai Watch 4 flops
Ehhh I really wouldn't call it a flop. 150,000 is still decent for a game. In comparison to previous Yo-kai titles yeah it's the lowest it's been since the series' first release, but I mean, this game is still gonna sell a good 600,000-700,000 copies I feel.
Also doesn't take into account digital sales, which right now YW4 is #2 on the Japanese eShop ranking.

post your yokaibro

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And there I can see why it has almost no appeal outside of Japan. I get it that's it's all about japanese folklore but those designs are just unappealing.

cassanuva is a great example of a design that actually works, it may have some japanese undertones but the general theme of exaggerated prettyboy is still a universal trope and the design isn't anything too outlandish aside from maybe a bit effeminate, but that still works with the design
but he's not par the course or even that present in promotional shit, you have shit like drooling old men, giant disembodied mouths, the massive amounts of recolors, and surprising amounts of yokai that are just generic blob ghosts
pokemon has a lot of that too but they get away with it because they're just the default for monster catcher games, you want to kill the king you'd better not just show up dress exactly like the king and just demand the throne

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>series gets milked to death in a span of 7 years
>people get tired of it

what a surprise

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honestly they got some fucking balls trying to go with the pokemon route of multiple versions of each game, even 3 up to one point

Nothing's ever going to break the Pokemon stranglehold on monster collecting, according to wikipedia by the latest tally, Pokemon has earned about $84 billion more than Digimon (mind you Digimon is still a huge and popular franchise that has earned more than some other big names) and YW isn't even on the map, albeit it's much younger than the other two.

But point is, Pokemon just has way too much money to throw around. They already have a huge amount of brand loyalty and they have the resources to cover what brand loyalty doesn't, the backing of the biggest company on the planet that exclusively makes video games and entire networks of communities and locations that are about nothing but fucking Pokemon (why else would /vp/ even need to exist if it wasn't that big?). The infrastructure runs too deep. It literally is just too big to fail and there's no incentive for them to even change. They're past the point of needing to put in effort.

Anime has great sections though

>jibanyan has literally a bunch of loli posters on his bedroom
how did they get away with this
i love him, such a great design
damn they are really appealing to me, but i guess everyone has different opnions on them

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I hope Level-5 will go back and do more LBX if this game doesn't work out. That franchise deserved better

oh the irony

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>series gets milked to death in a span of 20+ years
>people dont get tired of it

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> In comparison to previous Yo-kai titles yeah it's the lowest it's been since the series' first release

That one was released in 2013 and took off after the anime's debut in 2014. There's no new upcoming anime on the horizon to bail out YW4.

Well, Let's Go did sell an eight-digit number in 2018 alone and I surmise the same will be said about Sword/Shield in 2019.

>4

How long has Yokai even been out? This seems like oversaturation if anything

YW gen 1 = 2013
YW gen 2 = 2014
YW gen 3 = 2016
YW gen 4 = 2018/2019 (was slated to be released in 2018, got delayed and was actually released in June 2019)

>brokai

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>BUKIMI BUKIMI HELP ME
>BUKIMI BUKIMI HELP MEEEEE
what did he mean by this youtu.be/iU49yzGVOCE

7 years,the first 2 games were kinda bad tho

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Until they decided to make the regional dex of the game the only dex and drop the megas.

It's real odd how selective these companies are with their marketing. No big surprise that Pokemon sells since it has a new season to cover each new generation

Compare Bamco with Digimon. CS comes out and it's like their most successful game in over a decade and everyone enjoys the story. Naturally, a followup is made. Does the anime promote it? Haha, no, let's do a cringy rebranding about smartphones with a plot about gay robots instead of doing the sane thing and making a straight adaptation of the CS plot. HM is somewhat of a flop, who could have seen that coming?

YW here has the same problem. They need anime firing on all cylinders to keep this train going, but they just gave up for no discernable reason. I'm guessing since the new one's on the Switch, it's the most expensive one yet, they need this fucker to sell, but they choose now to to dial back on the promo? How retarded could they be?

There is a new anime though, it literally began the week after the last one ended

Just port this shit to the other consoles. Jesus man, not that hard.

These guys are trying to thrive in the niche Pokémon already fills in. Even Digimon knows better.

>doesn't have any ties with Nintendo
>release Pokémon exclusively on the platform where Pokemon dominates
FUCKING GENIUS. Asians truly do have the highest IQ.

even tho im a nintendofag, i dont understand why they dont release the games to ps4/pc

it was understandable on the 3ds because of the 2 screens but the switch has so many framerate issues that it kinda ruins YKW4

Wasn't this supposed to be the pokemon killer?

Blame VIZ media, the original Japanese marketing was never promoted like that.

I mean, the target demographic is more likely to own a Nintendo console than any other platform. You can't tell me it would have made sense to release it on the Xbox.

I could tell you it would have made sense for them to release them on every console (or at least the PS4) and PC. What's stopping them? Aren't these games made by Level 5?

What is happening with level 5?v hasn't the new Inazuma 11 been delayed for 2 years now?

>inherently very japanese ip
>release it on the platform with the biggest japanese install base
GENIUS

I mean even Yea Forums says it constantly.

uh?

Could be any number of things. If I had to guess, it's probably an exclusivity contract with Nintendo. Every game they've made for the past seven years has either been on a Nintendo console or a mobile game

Everything they're making is flopping. Snack Works was supposed to be their YW replacement and Ni No Kuni 2 was going to be their console breakout and neither landed. Now they're trying to go back to their tried franchises but they've already been milked to death

It's a shame his evolution always sucks dick unless you pair it with a 'yokai can't miss' effect

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so....pokemon won in the end? too bad i really wanted YW to succeed

Now they can make Dark Cloud 3. Right?

Nah they're milking Snack World.

I actually hate YW because their shit infested into other things.

no not really, pokemon swsh looks hideous and when it releases, normalfags will finally realize how fucking shitty gamefreak is

jibanyan didn't get away with it

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Except Ni no Kuni II

It was never a real competition. I'm sure that most of YW's playerbase also plays Pokemon games

4 actually looked really fun. What a shame.