Western JRPG Expedition 33 flops in Japan

This is cope.

Even random action games have better launches in Japan.

20+ threads up about how this game is actually terrible and doesn't deserve any praise

like I said

France is like 70% white at this point, Japan is still 99% Japanese

theres no japanese dub and its not on switch. there will be a japanese dub and switch 2 release and then it will sell well. its literally that simple

Japanese people don’t even play video games that can’t be played on their phones.

sell 2 million copies

1.9 millions of those are bought by Tencent in china

Every time

Reminder that japan doesn't buy games anymore unless they are on the switch or phones, which is why you see so many japanese devs turning towards appealing to foreigners.

are you retarded? I outright just said they didn't make enough physical copies.

do they teach how to count in India?

You understand you cannot sell what you didn't print, right?
Most of their sales are digital for a reason and in physical it's out of stock everywhere due to a low international print.

physical

PS5

Jappas hate PS5 though...

Do they teach you how to read in Israel, or just how to shoot Palestinian kids?

Japan still bumming modern FF is so cringeworthy.

kwab

I outright just said they didn't make enough physical copies.

The game is even on sale on amazon.co.jp, because this slop is not selling, you doofus. If anybody in Japan actually wants to buy a copy, then they can easily get one.

Cope and seethe.

gaza out of nowhere

this is your E33 target audience folks

Heil Bibi, amirite fellow Juden

is that a JRPG...which is not in highchool?? without muh japanese humor? NOOOOOOOOO

I don't speak zoomer. maybe try E33's Jewish founder

You can buy the game on Amazon Japan. It is even on sale, aparently because sales are so weak and they need to empty the warehouse.

>sell 2 million copies

.9 millions of those are bought by Tencent in china
NetEase is actually involved this time and not Tencent, but yeah, that is the typical strategy. Then they also hire shillbots to astroturf games, so they can make money.

You literally have to expect this whenever a Chinese publisher is involved and it has gotten really bad.

Do japs care this much over a game not having a jap dub?

stop making up conspiracies, you do this every time any game gains popularity
Sandfall isn't even owned by Kepler.

Shartbirthjeets need to find some way to discredit Expedition's success.

JRPG

Without the JRPG seal of quality

Yeah, there is no way this game will even win RPG of the year. That would be very insulting to Japanese, who are a very proud people.

delivery in june

in stock

lol

He doesn't live in Japan, dipshit. Shipping overseas takes time.

Imagine you discover a thing and your very first thought about is "b-b-ut what does nippon think about it??"

You will never be japanese

sells 2 million copies in China within 3 weeks for only 20 bucks

popular and successful

kek

Japanese website

more like someone is chomping at the bits to try and discredit the game by any metric
because mental illness

New game sells more than old games

???

Western JRPG

???

you can't read

nigger do you ever stop lying and just making shit up on the spot. based on actual reviews the chinks are actually the most negative about the game while every other country reviewed it highly.

Because of their perceived NTR, which is the funny part.

Steam only

This is worthless, because Persona 5 and Rebirth were not on Steam on day one and both of those games outsold E33 by a very, very large margin by total sales, obviously including console sales.

Cope and seethe.

All that proves is chink astroturfing = more up front sales because they spend money on bots

Do japs care this much over a game not having a jap dub?

No. See

Isn't this the BG3 schizo all over again?
And Jennifer English is the protagonist again?
Another GOTY?

Another GotY seems likely unless Kojima wins it instead. I'm not sure what will release this year that will top this as both critic bait and as a fuck you to the industry with the $50 price tag from a AA studio.

it's already been said dozens of times already that KEPLER DOESNT EVEN OWN SANDFALL

you people have actually nothing on this game and just keep spreading the same lies and misinfo because you cant handle a game being praised highly or positively discussed by anyone

the constant shifting of narratives to try to "get back" at this game proves how dishonest you are

Who would've guessed?

Holy shit, this game got totally butt blasted by based Nippon.

I just knew this E33 shill campaign was completely astroturfed and fake.

breh they are in the opening credits as the publisher what are you chinks on about? lol

Reminder that all these people spamming against this game are possible industry shills
Notice how they keep treating this game as a "threat" against the current industry

japs are brand worshippers

Nothing new here.

You guys are actually trying to make an argument with that? Japan has shit taste, they only play Jap games and when they play western games it's always Assassins Creed, CoD or GTA.

What now?

Japs notoriously have a poor taste, so that's a good sign

and when they play western games it's always Assassins Creed, CoD or GTA.

None of those games sell in Japan, actually.
The most recent western games to do decently in Japan are

Ghost of Tsushima

Spider-Man

Hogwarts Legacy

Minecraft

Can we have a JRPG seal of quality for our Western JRPG, Japanese friends? Pwetty pwease?

NO FROGS ARE THE ENEMY GTFO WITH YOUR SLOP

Based Japan. :)

which one of those games is supposed to be "random"?

Japan

That country is infested by dei
Just drop them

Yes, it's the BG3 schizo. It's why if I want an actual discussion of anything, I go to places that have accounts and usernames so I can avoid an anonymous pest shitting up the board for 5+ years minimum.

Are fagmatsu threads banned since the site went down? No Dall e either. I absolutely don’t miss them at all.

France isn't based.

La France is based

Le Japan is DEI infested cringe

Kepler doesn’t own sandfall schizo

NetEase (Chinese) is a major Kepler Interactive investor

Kepler is publisher of E33 and therefore owns the IP (not necessarily the copyright)

Sandfall is the developer of E33

There you go. China is involved, which is why this game is being astroturfed.

>Kepler is publisher of E33 and therefore owns the IP (not necessarily the copyright)

you are retarded

Kepler obviously owns the intellectual property, retard. You can try to prove otherwise though (you can't)

fastest delivery is in June

yeah that definitely seems like it's in stock, retard

Holy shit, that is absolutely brutal.

What the hell happened? Why did the Japanese reject this game so incredibly hard?

Kepler is publisher of E33 and therefore owns the IP

??????????

No they don't lmao, the entire point of the company is that developers retain all rights to their games

They only got sent 10K copies

Kepler most likely asked for adaptation rights since their CEO knows Hollywood people, same as Sifu.

I can't believe you fags rate this game, it's so fucking gay. Deleted after 20 minutes.

atelier yumia, a low budget jrpg, sold 60k physical copies in japan on its first week
e33 took two weeks to sell 9k, that's just pathetic

20 minutes.

so you played the prologue?

Don't you have to prove your own side first? you provided no evidence because you have no evidence.
all your accusations are poorly research or blatantly fucking wrong.

Take a good look at both games and try to guess why the nips prefer one over the other.

then how come they sold 3k the next week, bringing it up to 12k?

w-w-well ok they got 12k copies

so how come those didnt all sell the first two weeks?

NO CUTE TEENS NO BUY

reminder that all the shitposting against the game are tendies seething about the game. Just look at the most recent famitsu thread today and youll see its all from tendies

they are upset that nobody cares about their tendie slop and are talking about E33 instead

tendie cultists should all hang

Publisher pays for the development of a video game

Doesn't own the IP

I bet you also believe that JK Rowling owns the IP of the Harry Potter movies, which couldn't be further from the truth.

They see it for what it is: a revival of the 2000s "Japan SUCKS, only western games are good" mindset, this time by trying to hijack and weaponize Japan's own genres.

They see [nationalistic schizo hallucinations]

Seems about right, same as the Chinese and NTR

I see no reason why this game couldn't be ported to switch 2 down the line
it'd probably make the devs some good money

It's up 28% this week at least post factual numbers we're sitting at 13k in japan which is alot for a forgin game no matter how much you wanna cope

the publisher will hand it to a studio to port it to Switch 2 because fuck sitting down and learning that SDK, Sandfall should work on creative work instead, design a sequel or something

more chimpouts about outsourcing

Would be funny

most likely

source: it came to you in a dream

Publisher pays for the development of a video game

Doesn't own the IP

This is correct, just because they publish it does not mean they have the rights. You clearly don't have any grasp on how this industry works. Sorry you got so booty blasted that a game you didn't like did well lol

source

The website of Story Kitchen, the production company of that one buddy of the CEO of Kepler who were also doing adaptations of Sifu, another Kepler published game?
From interviews from the devs we know it was Kepler that offered to cast Andy Serkis and Charlie Cox for the game, who are primarily cinema and TV actors, because they know about the industry. Kepler announced they planned a series/film adaptation of E33 immediately, so it can be assumed they negotiated for film rights from Sandfall.

Based on actual reality the publisher likely negotiated for film rights. Because of the way Kepler handles their company that was probably why sandfall can keep the game IP.

The devs were pretty smart with outsourcing their work but it's retarded that some people are acting like the main devs did nothing just because they hired contract work.

Tonight, we march not as victims, but as warriors.

We are the last line between humanity and oblivion.

We are the children time forgot.

People really think they'll adapt the Verso ending?

It's flopped in the west as well.
The game had 400+ people working on it for 6 years.

A couple of million in sales isn't nearly enough to break even for a game with a budget that large.

they wont adapt any ending because they'll never actually produce a movie

You don't need japan. Expedition is prove of it

Expedition is literally a rip off of something Japan invented, you absolute buffoon.

It wouldn't exist without japanese developed games from 20 years ago to copy from.

just because they publish it does not mean they have the rights.

Wrong. That is the industry standard.

To be very clear: Owning the copyright does not mean that you own the intellectual property of a movie or video game.

Okay? I'm still playing it and it's a good game, why do sales matter?

They said they're already doing casting which instantly puts it ahead of that Sifu movie they've had in the backburner for years.
Makes sense that the only creative part that they outsourced was the combat animations, because you cannot mocap those, all the flips and anime moves. If you don't know how to believably animate that manually, better to hire experts that can.

if its not japanese its not a jrpg simple as

this, japan is almost as bad as america, they got dragged down hard, time to forget about them. Japan is the new America and Korea is the new japan.

The onus is on you to prove that the publisher has the rights to the IP. You simply have not done that, and you won't because you clearly can't. Sorry

That's possible, but that doesn't mean they own the IP. It's also possible they just facilitated the meeting rather than claiming the adaptation rights.

I don't care how mad it makes the nipponese, everyone knows what a jrpg looks and feels like, and this is it

I'm starting to think this guy is just a Jennifer English schizo

That's possible, but that doesn't mean they own the IP.

I never said that they own the IP outright, you can easily put into a contract that you have partial ownership of derivative works but the game side belongs to the studio.

probably

most likely

it can be assumed

Translation: you have absolutely zero proof whatsoever

Japan is immune to these shill campaigns, so it's confirmed that it's just some FOMO and was astroturfed lmao.

I knew something was off given how this literal who IP is apparently considered the 'greatest game of all time' according to Metacritic users.

This has been a thing since the early 00s anon, you are just noticing it more.
Hell if anything it usually happens twice a year, sea of shills, chained cuckolds, and cuckold project, did you already forgot all of them despite being fairly recent?

She was in Elden Ring too. Maybe you have a point...

its so funny how easily people got gaslit into thinking this was somehow an indie underdog game despite literally having a nepo baby CEO at the helm

sorry but if your RPG doesn't have cute anime girls I'm, uhh, just not gonna buy it

I KNOW I KNOW hahaha, sorry, I'm just not gonna buy it!

G A T E K E P T

nooooo his dad's rich that means the game can't be good!

yawn

I don't have to. The entity that pays for production and development is always the owner of the IP. In this case it is Kepler Interactive.

Sandfall receives royalties for their copyright and other contractual agreements, but that is it.

Kepler explicitly does not retain IP rights to games they publish

it flopped on JP steam too LMFAO

You absolutely have to provide a source for your claims. You haven't proven anything, and you're not even sure. That's why you said "most likely," "it is safe to assume," etc.

Why do you keep remaking this thread?
Not only is it the best selling Playstation game since release. Its sales have also been climbing.
But ultimately. This reflects worse on the PS5 than it does on the game. It is after all, as stated, the best selling PS5 game since release.

keep lying, traggot

hiring contractor is supposed to be a redflag

why even bother posting when you're just constantly showing off how retarded you are? it's almost childish how little you actually know about the hobby you supposedly spend most of your time discussing and participating in.

Not only is it the best selling Playstation game since release. Its sales have also been climbing.

the fact something barely scraping by 2 million in a month is an accomplishment for the PiS5 is frankly embarrassing

no shounen plot made for kiddies

no japanese humor

doesn't sell in japan

nobody could have predicted this

Yes, gameplay animations. The one part that was outsourced was the combat animations. And not even to a studio for hire, some animators he found on the internet.
In your own image you can see the mocap actors for the game who were employees, with the male one also voicing Esquie because he kept making funny noises on the mic

Japan is so stubborn they don’t want anything new. DQ and Pokemon sell gangbusters and it’s literally the same shit for 30 & 40 years.

This has been a thing since the early 00s anon

That's why I said revival. It went away in the second half of the 2010s and in the 2020s because of Persona 5 and the explosion in anime's popularity among normalfags. E33 just gave them an "acceptable" means to bring it back. Remember that the people who made this game worked on the Assassin's Creed games where the director openly admitted to hating Japanese games and writing and considered it all to be nonsense and garbage. Their "respect" for JRPGs is a total sham.

the fact something barely scraping by 2 million in a month is an accomplishment for the PiS5 is frankly embarrassing

Well yeah. But it's not embarrassing for the game.

It went away in the second half of the 2010s and in the 2020s because of Persona 5 and the explosion in anime's popularity among normalfags.

lmfao no, it was a thing around that era too, those games just fell into irrelevancy
this will too, at this point the only people talking about it are shills, normalniggers already moved on to waiting about gta6 again

Western JRPG Expedition 33 flops in Japan

It didn't though:

KEK

both copies are sold out in a random shop

Not sold out on Amazon Japan though. It is actually even on sale.

Try harder, shillbot.

the people who made this game worked on the Assassin's Creed

Only 2 people were ex Ubisoft and they didn't work on Asscreed, they were on that shitty HOMM game and Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

western JRPG

Feline dog

Japan has shit taste and their sale charts are as valuable as UK ones

Math hard

Little bro still so salty he lost

two week delivery in fucking Tokyo

lmao yeah sure very in stock

French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, all 99+ positive

A game made by and for medBVLLS

Now select the real version instead of the meme amazon preorder option.

writing too good confuses the jap mind

l
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Different countries have different tastes in media

Why did the Japanese reject this game so incredibly hard?

Because they bought it on PC instead

selling so little it's already on sale

grim

#1 BEST SELLER

KEK
AND
LMAO

lol
lmao even

The most retarded thing about E33 is when you call it and the people who shill it out for their anti-Japanese bias you immediately get swamped. Especially if you do it in normalfag spaces like xitter and r*ddit.

9 day delivery in Tokyo

So they're out of stock then?

lol lmao indeed

the PiS5 category is so fucking dead on japan that asscreed negrophilia could top the chart with 400 copies anon

Brown-skin doesn't understand statistics

hence my laughter, with such force as to cause my gluteus maximus to detach
hey it's a good thing we can see E33 has in fact sold 5K+ copies on Amazon, and has a 10 day delivery period, implying it's sold out!

Based Nippon

OP BTFO
He’ll post this shit thread again in a couple hours though

more like in a few minutes, he always makes a fresh thread when he gets BTFO

Frog kike propaganda flops.
Wow.
What a surprise.
Can't wait for the literal pajeets to tell me how spending 200 million for a mere 2 million shipments is a good thin akshually.