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According to Media Create the Playstation 4 has sold a underwhelming 1.7 million units in Japan as of August 16th of this year. You forget to mention that it sold those units worldwide. I know a few of you will start quoting Sony’s numbers on how they sold over 23 million units. The facts are there really isn’t a sizable userbase in Japan for a game like Phantasy Star Online 2 on the Playstation 4. They are stumbling around making decisions like it was the SEGA Saturn era all over again, trying to benefit each branch while they all fall apart. One of my biggest concerns about the way SEGA is doing business, it seems they aren’t thinking it through in the long term. Phantasy Star Online 2 being Japan only is bad
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Something that Phantasy Star Online hasn’t really gotten since, well, Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast. Final Fantasy wasn’t always the big mainstream brand that it is today, it took lots of risks and effort to make it what it is today, including marketing. Is the brand more popular than Final Fantasy? Nope and the way its being handled it won’t be known by new generations of western gamers, sadly. That is a disservice to not only the brand but also the fans that put up with blunders like Phantasy Star Universe. I think judging a franchise based on the sales of spin-offs is wrong, it would be like canceling all Sonic the Hedgehog console games based on the sales of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
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They managed this without having a new game in half a decade. There is obviously an interested English speaking fanbase. So much traffic that they are more popular than our site and rival Sonic Retro in terms of traffic (and Sonic Retro is the most popular SEGA/Sonic related fan site on the internet). The Phantasy Star franchise hasn’t had a western released game for half a decade, but PSO-World, the top English Phantasy Star Online website still gets a ton of traffic. It was so popular that it not only got a card game spin-off (that didn’t do so hot), dozens of re-releases and the older versions are still played online via hacked servers. The issue here is that Phantasy Star Online, the main title entry was a popular game.
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But can you name me any other PSP game that sold well after 2010? I mean, I remember seeing NPD numbers in 2006 pinning the PSP as selling 20,000 units a month, now imagine how much it was selling in 2010 when Phantasy Star Portable 2 came out. Lots of people will use these handheld sale numbers and talk about how Phantasy Star Online 2 isn’t worth it for a publisher like SEGA because of the sales of spin-offs on a platform with high piracy rates. I agree that the game failed at selling copies outside of Japan, but this was true for a lot of PSP games in the west. For example, the last Phantasy Star related game to be released in America was Phantasy Star Portable 2. I would say that the Phantasy Star franchise is one of SEGA’s bigger franchises they have created and still has online appeal. This is something that I don’t think a lot of people understand, that the Phantasy Star Online franchise does have a sizable following. Phantasy Star Online is a popular franchise I decided that it was time I did a write up about why SEGA West not bringing Phantasy Star Online 2 outside of Japan is bad, not only for their in-house IP but also for their overall brand. So, here it is, my article talking about why SEGA West not bringing Phantasy Star Online 2 is just another stupid decision by the company that has had a long history of bad decisions. I stated in my original article that I thought it was a really bad decision and got many people upset while they tried to debate me on the topic even though I never really stated why I felt it was a bad decision.
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Given that we know the news that SEGA doesn’t have plans on publishing Phantasy Star Online 2 outside of Japan, at least for the Playstation 4 (though the PC and Vita versions have been out for over 3 years, so I assume those aren’t coming either).