Level-5 CEO on Yo-Kai Watch sales in NA, Snack World, movies and more

The following comments come from Level-5 CEO, Akihiro Hino...

- anime has received favorable television ratings in North America
- game itself has been stuck at around the 400,000 copies mark for sales in North America
- looking at it from a Yo-kai Watch perspective, that’s not nearly enough sales
- Level-5 is putting together a plan of having things bloom like a flower in half a year or a year from now
- the idea is to have NA get content that Japan has yet to see, or some content before Japan, or the same time Japan gets it
- Yo-kai Watch’s third film will feature both live action and anime parts
- originally wanted to go with a full-CG film, but it would take two years to produce and same for a full live-action film
- goal is to release a new film each year
- Snack World will get an abundance of information at Level-5 Vision 2016
- production of the anime has been taking a while, so the game and anime might end up releasing next year
- Level-5 has made considerable progress in its script
- Yo-kai Watch 3 takes place in foreign lands and will see a renovated map
- ROM size is said to be about double that of Yo-kai Watch 2
- hopes all future titles from the company will be compatible with smartphones
- Hino likes VR and they’re trying all kinds of things with it
- after Yo-kai Watch 3 in 2016, Hino believes that the rest of the year will see a big pause for the Yo-kai Watch series
- feels that 2017 and beyond will see the start of many new things
- Level-5 is opening a Tokyo Studio where they will work on voice recording and video distribution
- voice recording studio will be around the level of a film production company
- Hino wants to be able to do all the voice-recording in-house with the new studio
- Hino wants to have a program that can help the company communicate better with the fans in mind