Monolith Talks Disaster Wii Disappointment, Baten Kaitos & Possible Sequels [news]

Bit of a shame, can't wait for the full interview.

I bought this game and truly enjoyed it despite a few flaws (like the general visual presentation not always at top, and a weird motion capture for raymond bryce).

Like said above, anyone who like the likes of "The day after", and so on should consider picking this one up.

I hope they bring the game to the States. Its rare that Nintendo actually creates a new IP, and this one looks pretty decent too. Shame about the low sales..

Looking forward to the interview.

Oh a sequel! That\'ll be cool!

Btw, even if Nintendo does bring this to the US it will still do horribly because they\'re already reluctant to release it. They won\'t even market it to be honest.

( Edited 25.11.2008 20:11 by tiamat1990 )

"Disaster" should become a new IP
And they should definitely continue the baten kaitos series!

I <3 Monolith...shame all their games fail
Well at least I'll be picking up all their games

To be honest though. They didnt Promote it at all over here, no adverts no nothing, just a 1 page spead in ONM was all i saw. If they want to sell well they need to advertise to the market segment that they have aimed the game at 'disaster movie people'
I want the game and it looks good, ive read reviews ect so naturally i know all about it. However many other people wont know a thing about it, and they will end up being told to buy carnival games by staff in game shops.
No promoting=No sales.
Come on,its a new style of game that hasnt been seen before, it wont sell without a helping hand.
Whats regie thinking? It will sell like mario or kart? Most people already know that those games are good because its MARIO! Nintendo have spent decades an millions (or billions) on making him the forefront of nintendo games.
It dosent happen over night. you want to sell a game? Give it a chance and put the backing into it to make it happen. Godsake regie.

I've convinced four people to buy the game so far (maybe more if anyone on C3 went off my recommendation!), but none of them had even heard of the game until I started telling them...There was some coverage on the Nintendo Channel, but it's reach is obviously very limited.

jesusraz said:
none of them had even heard of the game until I started telling them...

I hope it comes over here some day. It seems like a good game, and we need new "hardcore" Nintendo IPs.

At least Nintendo's Australian branch lists Disaster as one of its big games for Christmas, so hopefully it'll get some decent coverage there. And then all we can do is keep plugging it as much as possible and hope for the best!

Disaster is marketed here in Germany only on Nintendo's official channels like Website and Nintendo-Channel. That's great, but it won't rise sales. Microsoft had to push Halo into the market, too, so no pain no gain!
Shame, really. And yes, you convinced me to buy Disaster. I will soon!

oh: and Baten Kaitos Origins wasn't even released in Europe so far, so we won't get this version, as US won't get Disaster it seems...
Baten Kaitos is a great game. It even comes kind of close to a type of Final Fantasy, so shame, that it doesn't seem to sell well... I want Origins as a Wii-Remake from Nintendo!

I'm actually thinking that the reason we've not heard much about Baten Kaitos yet is because Nintendo plans to re-release both BK and BKO as part of the 'Play on Wii' series, complete with new controls...Then perhaps we'd see a European release this time round!

Disaster indeed needed better advertising.

Especialy with so many people moaning about the lack of core games, and completely missing it off any lists they use.
Disaster\'s kinda like Giest...good, not great, but shows potenial.

( Edited 26.11.2008 16:38 by Darkflame )

well I tried to buy it but as far as I could tell it isn't even available in Norway.

Seems to me like they didn't even really give it a chance. A game like this would certainly need TV exposure.

I played Baten Kaitos 1 and Baten Kaitos 2, I love the storyline due to because they were great. I love the artwork in Baten Kaitos, it is fantastic I must say. I prefer to have a Baten Kaitos 3 instead, please!