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Unicorn Overlord Devs Denied PC Port (www.destructoid.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[+] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Before getting all mad about bad articles, this is probably more a case of vanillaware not being able to afford to port right now and wanting to focus on what they know. It'll likely come later

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.

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.

That's from the game's producer at Atlus. If the publisher wanted to get a PC port, they would have found the money to do it (or found a third-party to manage the port if Vanillaware wasn't willing/able). Per the quote, Vanillaware themselves do not want it on PC - nothing about not being able to afford to port it or anything like that. This tracks with how they've never released a single game on Windows aside from an MMO they made for Square Enix almost 20 years ago, before they were even known as Vanillaware.

Vanillaware just doesn't have any interest in PC, and while that's quite frustrating, it's their prerogative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Before getting all mad about bad articles

That's an interview, and none of their games came before, this is just the nail in the coffin for the optimists.