Comments on: NIS America saw a large-scale decline in profits in the past year

By: Katako

Katako — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:48:50 +0000

Just looking at the lineup, I feel like it moght be a combo of the fact that almsot every single game they released this past year was an action game and the fact that almost every game was part of the Trails series, which is a series whose serialized nature makes it very intimidating for new players because getting caught up requires playing several 50-100 hours rpgs, potentially in a row.

By: Discoceris

Discoceris — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:34:24 +0000

@Sargon
This has nothing to do with whatever bot comment you made evidenced in the editions selling out most of the time.

By: DM

DM — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:14:15 +0000

I think maybe the biggest sore spot would be over-investing in Reynatis & not seeing it perform, it was marketed non-stop prior to release and I’m sure that was a larger spend than usual for them.

I think they’ve only published one NIS title in the last year (Phantom Brave?), so licensing fees or any other payments based on sales would also directly impact profit. I really wish they would invest more in the smaller NIS titles, those are the weird little niche gems that I miss from them this generation!

I would expect the intense pressure from Falcom to catch up & keep up with the Trails series in the last couple years has also lead to additional investment in loc costs (and maybe series fatigue) but they’re almost there.

It could also be a clearance hit on end of gen for PS4/Switch/Xbox if they had lots of unsold inventory to move?

There are so many things that could influence this result that would make sense, I wish we got more than just the numbers but speculation is fun!

By: Sargon

Sargon — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:23:47 +0000

Ultimate edition was the most people could tolerate. Then they saw the new Complete edition and noped out entirely. You can only push your greed so far.