Topic: The DraculaX Chronicles, Trounced by an old GBA game (Kotaku link inside)

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Link here. :O

Yes, people still buy that old goodie game.
Then again, Castlevania is just not very big in Japan so maybe that's it.

Just thought it was a funny article I thought I'd share.

[thernz]

DXC just didn't sell well in any regard. Shame.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Yeah it's an alright game.
Hell, it's the reason I got a PSP-Slim.

[Oralox]

Where's the link?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

There it is (odd, link no workies for a bit but was there).

[Puwexil]

I'm more surprised that DXC sold at all, at this point.

[Chernabogue]

People might have been repelled by the fact it is a remake. Or I dunno.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I argue that many, if not most people, did not even know it was a remake.  Not everyone is a hardcore Castlevania fan.

[thernz]

I guess there's also how OFF-PUTTING it is to unlock SoTN in an ARCHAICALLY DESIGNED game.

[Nagumo]

Stupid game actually makes me put effort in unlocking a game I can already play on Playstation.

 

[Odile Kuronuma]

I guess there's also how OFF-PUTTING it is to unlock SoTN in an ARCHAICALLY DESIGNED game.

And it might not be worth it to unlock SOTN since the voice acting kinda sucks (yeah i prefer the old voice acting even if it's cheesy). Not to mention that Maria is pretty weak.

[uzo]

It's really that the PSP was a failed system at this point. DXC wasn't the only one that didn't do well. it's just about any PSP game. Developers tried to make block busters for a system that has been hacked to hell and back, and had a smaller market share than its weaker competitor. Companies like Capcom and Konami pumped in some serious money into some of these games to see poor returns, thus abandoning the system in some ways and put partial blame on the series the game was from and or the style of game it was.

Bottom line: Companies placed undue blame on the game/genre, instead of blaming the medium. Had Maverick Hunter X, Megaman Powered Up, and DXC been on the Wii instead, they would have made a hell of a lot more money.

[Harrycombs]

Developers tried to make block busters for a system that has been hacked to hell and back, a

The DS has been hacked to hell and back and its been very successful. I only own about 5 games for the PSP because there really isn't anything on it that I want. The lack of good games that aren't remakes is its problem. The games that I have by far played the most are DXC, P3P, and FFTactics, all of which are ports/remakes...

[uzo]

PSP hacking was FAR more prevalent. Mainly because the PSP didn't require the purchase of additional hardware to hack (with some early firmwares excluded). Everyone I knew who had a PSP hacked it, and mostly on their own. All of which purchased the PSP with the intent of hacking it from the get go to never buying games. As for the DS, I didn't know anyone locally who did hack theirs, and only a few online. Reason? A 50$ attachment wasn't within their willingness to buy.

But coupled with that, as stated above, it just wasn't as popular with a much lower install base and an even lower install base who actually paid for the games.

[Abnormal Freak]

It's too bad DXC never got a PS2 port, a la Silent Hill: Origins. Or, heck...screw the handheld platform altogether and just done it that way to begin with.