Puyo Puyo Tetris coming to Americas and Europe

I'm impressed that this is getting localized, with Ubisoft having the exclusive Tetris license. Unless that finally ended.

I picked up the Japanese PS4 version at some point last year and played through the whole thing, but I guess I'll buy the switch version too since I was thinking of importing one of the handheld versions after playing it on PS4. It's a nice game to kill time with.

 

No Xbox One version, huh?

 

Nope. Not even 3DS. It's stupid as shit, too. Doubly so in that they're going to try using sales of this game to see if it's worth it to bring Chronicles over.

I can understand not bringing it here on PS3, Wii U, and Vita, but no XBOne port? No 3DS? Only one console that actually had it in Japan, and one with a current install base of 0?

Stupid. Sega, y'all are stupid!


Eh, fuckit. I literally just got done playing through the (main) Adventure mode on my freEShopped copy of the JPN 3DS release earlier today (didn't do any of the DLC stuff yet). I can wait for the inevitable backport of the localization, as there was already a translation project underway that will be helped out massively by this release. Hopefully they'll even get the audio for a full dub.

 

Except, you know, the approximately 40,000,000 potential customers who already own a 3DS that isn't in Japan? For a title they'd literally only have to insert text, textures and audio files for?

It's like Sega is aping Nintendo at having a money allergy.

Here's my prediction:

Puyo Puyo Tetris will sell like crap in the West, because PS4 owners that wanted it bad enough already picked up the import for their region-free console, and Switch owners are going to be few and far-between, based on the lackluster reaction to the Switch presentation, and it will be seen as justification to not localize Puyo Chronicles.

 

Finally! I'll be buying copies for both systems of this, I want Chronicles localized goddamnit!

 

I stated roughly 40 million outside Japan.

The 3DS has a little over 22 million sold in Japan, where Puyo Puyo Tetris has had slightly under 3 years to sell (Feb. 2014 release). I mean, yeah, not all of those are still working or in-use today, but there's clearly numbers there. Further, the 3DS is region-locked, so those that wanted it outside Japan had to hack their system in order to play it.

It's a little harder to track down by-region numbers for the PS4, but they have about 53 million worldwide. However, Puyo Puyo Tetris has had since Dec. 2014 to sell, and since the PS4 is region-free, that also hurts its potential sales in the West, since, as you said, its main audience in the West is niche, and likely is prepared to pay a premium for an import.


When it comes to the Switch presentation, it's not just internet fans/haters thinking it was lackluster. Nintendo's stock price dropped roughly 6% on the heels of the presentation, so I can't see how that can be spun as any kind of good news.

 

I'm gonna need a Switch I guess...I'm garbage at Puyo but played some of PPT once on an import Wii U at a convention and it was pretty swell.

 

I'm so glad the voices aren't completely awful.

 

I've noticed that the latest trailer hasn't been posted so...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9nyFL3UPoI

For the record, the tutorial talked about in this trailer has three categories, Puyo Puyo, Tetris, and Fusion (PuyoTetMix), further divided by "beginner", intermediate", and "advanced". The tutorial goes into different concepts that range from simple stuff like how to rotate, to more complex concepts like how to transition in Puyo Puyo or how to T-spin in Tetris. Only problem with the tutorial is that, unlike past games, there isn't any mode dedicated to you learning these techniques. Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary for example gave you a set of challenges designed to teach you about different subjects via trial and error. So if you want to practice anything the tutorial talks about, you'll need to either use the dedicated endless modes or exploit the 20 chain limit trick in a verses match against a CPU.

 

It's a nice demo. You can even play 4-player multiplayer if you want. Feels a little silly to give out an unlimited demo that gives you the whole meat of the game in one place, but hey, I'm not exactly complaining...

 

Specifically speaking.

• Can play Vs. or Swap
• Arle, Amitie, Ringo, Maguro, Risukuma, Klug, Sig, Suketoudara, Rulue, Raffina, O, Tee, Ess, Zed, Ai, Jay & Elle are playable.
• Can play up to 4 players, both humans and CPU
• Compatible with Joy-Cons, both separate and grip, and the Pro Controller.

It's different from the demos provided at events for the record.

 

So...The US Switch physical version comes with keychains in it's box, but apparently, exclusively at Target it also comes with two sets of decals.

Anyone buy the game from Target? Key chains + decals are only from first print copies though.

 

Only the Switch version came with the keychains, I'll edit my post.

EDIT: Assuming you haven't taken any of them off, mind scanning them for Sega Retro?