{"id":106322,"date":"2019-12-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/a_xenosaga_collection_was_scrapped_due_to_profitability_concerns"},"modified":"2019-12-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T10:00:00","slug":"a-xenosaga-collection-was-scrapped-due-to-profitability-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/27\/a-xenosaga-collection-was-scrapped-due-to-profitability-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Xenosaga Collection Was Scrapped Due To Profitability Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A collection of games in the “Xeno” series was canned because Bandai Namco was concerned it wouldn’t sell in the numbers required to turn a profit, according to general manager Katsuhiro Harada.<\/p>\n

The series – which began life on the PlayStation in 1998 with Xenogears<\/strong> and includes six entries on the PlayStation 2 – laid the foundations for Xenoblade Chronicles<\/a><\/strong>, Xenoblade Chronicles X<\/a><\/strong> and Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/a><\/strong>, all of which are Nintendo exclusives.<\/p>\n

Given the interest in the franchise, you’d think it would be a dead cert as far as a collection was concerned, but that’s not the case, says Harada – although some work was carried out before the plug was pulled:<\/p>\n

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This actually progressed to the remaster’s plan, but failed in a profitable market analysis. Sorry guys, This plan will be difficult to resurface…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To be fair, not all of the Xenosaga<\/strong> games made it to the west so any collection would involve a considerable amount of localisation work.<\/p>\n

Would you have bought this collection if it had happened? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A collection of games in the “Xeno” series was canned because Bandai Namco was concerned it wouldn’t sell in the numbers required to turn a profit, according to general manager Katsuhiro Harada. The series – which began life on the PlayStation in 1998 with Xenogears and includes six entries on the PlayStation 2 – laid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}