Marvelous feels like crying over poor Wii game sales, feeling the economic squeeze in Europe

“I truly have teary eyes. I feel like crying.” - Marvelous staff blog writer (most likely Yasuhiro Wada)

The mystery writer is talking about tears over poor selling Wii release in Japan, such as No More Heroes, Rune Factory Frontier, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Harvest Moon: Waku Waku Animal March, and Arc Rise Fantasia. I feel like crying when I see great games shunned by the consumer…and the list above indeed includes many a great game.

Even worse, we hear that Marvelous is feeling the pinch when releasing games overseas, particularly in Europe. Looks like the economic pressure is making for quite a rough time.

We have not seen much of the effects of the economic downturn in Japan, but we have been affected greatly overseas. Especially in Europe, where the retailers drop prices without informing the maker. And they would claim the price difference from the maker later, almost as if that is the way that everything is supposed work. We’re already charging extra to cover costs for the price protection, but past late last year the prices have dropped below what can be covered by the amount, badly affecting the profits for our subsidiary in Britain. For the current financial year, we’re starting to take more money to compensate for price protection.

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