>HXH game flopped>JJK game flopped in the midst of its popularity>Naruto Storm Connection games flopped>Nobody cares about any of the One Piece games>Bandai has so little faith in One Piece and Naruto that their games got cancelled during production>Sparking Zero hated and slandered post launch>The only franchise that regularly gets games is Dragon BallBandai Namco has a monopoly on the anime industry's biggest franchises, some of them being cultural phenomena. Yet, when they make games for next-gen consoles they almost all seem to crash and burn. Meanwhile...>The most profitable Naruto game and overall product in the franchise is a mobile gacha>The most profitable Dragon Ball game is a mobile gacha>The most profitable Bleach game is a mobile gacha>The most profitable and highest quality modern One Piece games are both mobile gachasThey make more money, gradually end up providing more content and more characters, they get the newest introduced characters first, they have the live support that modern gamers crave, and we're at the point now where they're consistently starting to look better than the next gen games. If I want an open world game for Naruto or One Piece, I'd rather it be gradually developed as gambling addicts funnel money into the budget as opposed to them crapping one out in 3-4 years and it looks like a small, barebones tech demo. Just look at Storm 4.Likewise for a fighting game, the roster is going to be small anyways with them holding it hostage through DLC, and the story is going to be cut into pieces because, once again, they only had like 3 years to work on it. On top of that, it's going to be hideous because anime games only know how to make uncanny realistic unreal slop now. A gacha game where you can slowly get an inclusive roster, an updated story, and good visuals would be so much better. You could actually recreate your favorite scenes and attacks.CONT
>>2163723cont...Bandai can't keep squandering these IPs forever. If they're not sitting on them, they're giving them a fighting game practically set up to fail, and when they're not doing that they're putting the IP in another genre like an RPG or Musou and then that fails too because it's also half-assed. I think they've realized the rut they're in too, that bleach game (Mirrors High) could have been a console game like Rebirth, but they opted for a DBL clone and it's the better for it.
in Japan it’s the big ONE piece!
What, you expect them to stop making easy money, the industry is all about whoring out your characters through merch and shit. Gacha is simply the most cost-effective method.
