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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Developer Nihon Falcom recently posted its latest financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending September 2024.

Most significantly, sales have exceeded expectations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Sales have exceeded their forecast by 7% and net income is over 27%. Further, operating profit is over 26%.

Sales are expected to be flat year-over-year for the fiscal year forecast ending September 2024. Moreover, none of the upcoming planned releases are new information for fans.

Thanks to Pierre485 for translating select statistics.

Source - Noisy Pixel

 

[Mr Hyde]

Ys is about to become the next Persona in terms of prominence and sales. It will be a marquee Jrpg franchise along with the all time greats.

 

[Thief1987]

It's a good news, but Falcom deserves their breakout success.

 

[Isa]

Nice to see and hope to see it continue to grow as more people give their works a chance. They are a legend in the space and deserve a ton of credit.

 

[IAmRei]

I'm glad, falcom often underrated since ages ago. Watching documentary about falcom, I'm glad they see great achievement today.

 

[BennyBlanco]

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Ys rules

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Ok Falcom, this is the sign you needed. Time to give Ys simultaneous worldwide release dates from now on.

 

[drganon]

Nice. Falcom is a great dev. They just need some help in getting their games over to the west at a faster rate.

 

[Deerock71]

Ys is about to become the next Persona in terms of prominence and sales. It will be a marquee Jrpg franchise along with the all time greats.

10 or 11 games in, if it hasn't broken through, there's hardly any reason to believe it will. I like the franchise, but it's a bit on the difficult side for the more casual folks out there to pick up and play.

 

[Sentenza]

Incidentally I just finished Ys IX a couple days ago.
I remember reading it was fairly divisive among the fans of the series but I ended up enjoying it a whole lot. The "superhero powers" made traversal and exploration extremely fun.

Looking forward for the release of Ys X in the "west".

 

[TintoConCasera]

Good news. Loved my time with both Ys: The Oath in Felghana and Xanadu Next.

Trails wasn't for me, waaaay too slow and dialog heavy for my tastes. Gurumin is cute but didn't get far on that one.

Still need to give the Zwei games a go, aside from playing all the other Ys games.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

10 or 11 games in, if it hasn't broken through, there's hardly any reason to believe it will. I like the franchise, but it's a bit on the difficult side for the more casual folks out there to pick up and play.

if Persona could break through then I see no reason why Ys couldn’t.

 

[RoboFu]

A lot of people don't even know that some of their favorite jrpg devs and composers got their start at falcom.

 

[Deerock71]

if Persona could break through then I see no reason why Ys couldn’t.

Persona's a traditional JRPG with pizzazz, where Ys is an ARPG with a pretty decent curve requiring skill. It's easier for a casual to pick up and play a JRPG.

 

[Hudo]

A lot of people don't even know that some of their favorite jrpg devs and composers got their start at falcom.

Also Makoto Shinkai of "Your Name", "Weathering With You" and "Suzume" fame worked at Nihon Falcom for a bit.

 

[SantaC]

Ys is about to become the next Persona in terms of prominence and sales. It will be a marquee Jrpg franchise along with the all time greats.

Not close in terms of quality

YS 9 was pretty average and I heard about the same for YS 10. 8 is the exception


Falcoms real goldmine is the Trails series.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Also Makoto Shinkai of "Your Name", "Weathering With You" and "Suzume" fame worked at Nihon Falcom for a bit.

That's so cool! I loved Makoto Shinkai's Your Name so much that I even bought the 4K UHD Blu-ray. I still have to watch Suzume and Weathering With You though.

 

[Hypereides]

Ys is about to become the next Persona in terms of prominence and sales. It will be a marquee Jrpg franchise along with the all time greats.

Have to give this series a try one of these days. Unfortunately, my plate is already quite full.

 

[West Texas CEO]

They do Trails, too?

 

[Sentenza]

Ys is about to become the next Persona in terms of prominence and sales. It will be a marquee Jrpg franchise along with the all time greats.

Not until they start to ramp up the budget and production value (as Persona did), no.
But the series always had its own cult following for years.

For what is worth, I already consider it far more enjoyable on average than the Persona series, anyway.

 

[Hudo]

That's so cool! I loved Makoto Shinkai's Your Name so much that I even bought the 4K UHD Blu-ray. I still have to watch Suzume and Weathering With You though.

Have to watch Suzume as well but Weathering With You is legit.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

They do Trails, too?

Yes!

 

[cash_longfellow]

Cool, give me the earlier Ys games on ps5 then!

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Have to watch Suzume as well but Weathering With You is legit.

Noice! Gonna watch it as soon as I'm in the mood for another Makoto Shinkai movie (have to be prepared emotionally first lol).

 

[Hudo]

(have to be prepared emotionally first lol).

Yeah, the guy knows how to make dudes cry.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Well deserved. The Trails series is about the best Japanese role-playing game when it comes to world building and lore. Absolutely fantastic games that have an ongoing storyline well after 20 years.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Developer Nihon Falcom recently posted its latest financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending September 2024.

Most significantly, sales have exceeded expectations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Sales have exceeded their forecast by 7% and net income is over 27%. Further, operating profit is over 26%.

Sales are expected to be flat year-over-year for the fiscal year forecast ending September 2024. Moreover, none of the upcoming planned releases are new information for fans.

Thanks to Pierre485 for translating select statistics.

Source - Noisy Pixel

Power of the Musse

 

[Skifi28]

Just hurry up with YS X in the west.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Power of the Musse

Indeed

 

[Fabieter]

I own cold steel 1-3 but just finished 1 so far and since then there was like 5 new games. Will support them with their ys franchise because trails is lost course for ms tbh.

Is the cold steel 2 better paced than the first one tho?

I saw that the next game should be a good starting point. Should I just go with that?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Just hurry up with YS X in the west.

It will be here before you know it!

 

[drganon]

Yes!

The only one left I haven't played from up there is azure.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

The only one left I haven't played from up there is azure.

Azure is great

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Man, most of the gifs for Ys X Nordics are of low quality... Guess I'll have to work on making some higher quality ones as this game deserves to be properly hyped.

Anyway, here's a shortened version of the gif I've posted earlier in this thread, but now in HD and high frame-rate:

And another one for reaction use:

 

[Punished Miku]

if Persona could break through then I see no reason why Ys couldn’t.

Well, its called Ys for one.

 

[StereoVsn]

Not close in terms of quality

YS 9 was pretty average and I heard about the same for YS 10. 8 is the exception


Falcoms real goldmine is the Trails series.

Yeah, I generally like Ys, but it’s nowhere near Persona in terms of quality or wide appeal. And Ys IX was indeed disappointing.

 

[graywolf323]

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Ys rules

same, I‘ve picked up pretty much everything on both PSN and Steam (though I tend to get Steam first and pick up the games on PSN later on sale)

 

[BennyBlanco]

same, I‘ve picked up pretty much everything on both PSN and Steam (though I tend to get Steam first and pick up the games on PSN later on sale)

Ys 8 at a flawless 90 fps on steam deck OLED

 

[TidusYuna]

This is partly my fault. I have a bit of a problem dipping

 

[Hudo]

This is partly my fault. I have a bit of a problem dipping

You're the reason why the sales have exceeded expectations.

 

[TidusYuna]

You're the reason why the sales have exceeded expectations.

We did it

 

[ReBurn]

Last Ys I played was Ys III. I guess they're still making good ones.

 

[Thief1987]

Last Ys I played was Ys III. I guess they're still making good ones.

Well, in the era when everything turned into the souls-like garbage Ys is one of the last remaining actually fun action rpg

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This is partly my fault. I have a bit of a problem dipping

Dayum! I still need to snag the PS5 versions of Ys VIII, Ys IX, and also Tokyo Xanadu Ex+, but I think I'm going to wait for the Switch physical as it releases this summer in the West.

 

[Lorianus]

haha... Thats our Rean.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Too much talk about Ys and not enough about Trails in this thread.

Also looking forward to Tokyo Xanadu sequel.

 

[Quartermuncher]

Ys IX dissapointment feels half baked. Its not the best of Ys but its still a solid 8.5 at worst

But im glad to hear its doing well. Now for the Felghana port to come stateside!

 

[Fabieter]

Too much talk about Ys and not enough about Trails in this thread.

Also looking forward to Tokyo Xanadu sequel.

It's alot easier to get into ys tho.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Ys IX > Ys VIII.

 

[TidusYuna]

Dayum! I still need to snag the PS5 versions of Ys VIII, Ys IX, and also Tokyo Xanadu Ex+, but I think I'm going to wait for the Switch physical as it releases this summer in the West.

Me too. As I said, i have a dipping problem when it comes to Nihon Falcom games.