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One of two things can happen with the JRPG fanbase that adore Persona (for those that pick up Arena):

1) They will play the game and be hooked onto it. Potentially adding ot the player pool.

2) They will play the game, get bored and leave.

Then there's the fact that there will actually be a player base to play with online, and potentially off line. The number of Persona fans is actually pretty big. I knew even casual gamers who loved the game, or knew of it to some extent. Persona 4 itself is more popular than any other part of the franchise.

The thing that sucks? It won't get Japanese level advertising here in America. The truth of the matter is, Japan is the target audience, not America. Atlus doesn't need to try to focus its efforts on fronting games stateside because they already got that powerful player base in Japan. That's why a lot of Anime Fighting Games don't make it all that far. Companies in Japan aren't aiming at the American market at all, and therefore there are almost never any marketing campaigns.

It becomes an effort of the fans, and players to put that game out there. To make the effort, but without Capcom level marketing a lot of gamers in general will ignore the game anyways. Apparently it's more credible when the developers say "Play this game" over the players who actually play it.



I'm rambling a little here...

We better all skip P4A, the new BB is gonna come out in a year!

I had no idea 5 months ago classified as "just came out" these days.

new game for bb:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAWi3QyFE_0

A lot of people skipped Extend...or are gllad they didn't get the game because of the CP announcement.

Yeah I was there, if you saw the stream - I was the only chick in the room at certain times watching the main screen.

I did horrible, btw. Did the P4U tournament and lost both matchs pool and losers.