SD Gundam G Generation Eternal confirms my greatest fear

[Servius88]

Cross Rays could be the last major G Generation game made for consoles and sadly the only ever made for PC so far. While there are some rumors that Genesis could be ported to PC but I don't think that will happen anytime soon.

The reason why G Generation games exist(as well as Super Robot Wars ones) because there were handheld systems back then, Playstation Vita and later Nintendo Switch. Everyone knows that a G Gen game are massive in term of size and content. Vita barely able to handle Genesis which comes in two cartridges while all other games only one. According to some people Switch had some performance issues.

With steep price of PS5 and no Switch successor announced, Eternal could be the last major G Gen game ever made.

[redhongkong]

as phones getting more powerful, this kind of game (one doesnt require high graphic processor) are more suitable for phones. (since everyone have a phone and carry them everyday, its good way to make money for game developer)

sony know abou this long ago, thats probably why they killed their console market

[lPaladinl]

I never had any performance issues with Genesis on Switch, unless there's some specific conditions to cause lag that I don't know about.

[nobalkain]

Eh, I doubt that. People claimed PC and Consul Gaming was dead when Phone Games started gaining popularity, and both are still here. I would find it odd to just stop after going through the hassle of finally making a World Wide release of the game that was a success to then just call it good.

I could see it being a while before doing another since this and the last game kind of covered most of what has been released in Gundam till now. Wait until a few more Shows have been released so they have enough new Suits to Market a new game. But giving up on releasing all together outside of Phone Games, nah it just doesnt make much sense.

[RiO]

引用自 Servius88：

The reason why G Generation games exist(as well as Super Robot Wars ones) because there were handheld systems back then

Uhm... outside of that one gameboy game kickstarting SRW, it has had equal presence on handhelds and home consoles. People cried doom when SRW went the mobage route with Cross-Omega -- most not realizing that it had actually ventured into mobage territory long before that -- and yet we continued to get SRW V, X, T and 30th. The first three coming to PC and 30th even going officially international on PC.

SRW V even managed to get a PlayStation 2018 Gold Prize for selling over 500,000 units; which are numbers even the most lauded entries in the entire franchise; the Alpha and Z series, were not able to reach. Z struggled to break 300k iirc.

If SRW is anything to go by, then the GGen mobage isn't going to change anything.

[lPaladinl]

iirc there were a few SD Gundam games on the Wonderswan.

[Laughing kookaburra]

引用自 Servius88：

Cross Rays could be the last major G Generation game made for consoles and sadly the only ever made for PC so far. While there are some rumors that Genesis could be ported to PC but I don't think that will happen anytime soon.

The reason why G Generation games exist(as well as Super Robot Wars ones) because there were handheld systems back then, Playstation Vita and later Nintendo Switch. Everyone knows that a G Gen game are massive in term of size and content. Vita barely able to handle Genesis which comes in two cartridges while all other games only one. According to some people Switch had some performance issues.

With steep price of PS5 and no Switch successor announced, Eternal could be the last major G Gen game ever made.

PSX got 5 GGen, WSC got... 1
PS2 got 4, GBA 1, PSP 3 , 3DS 1, Wii 2
PS4 2 , vita 1, NSW 2 , PC 1

consoles got 13 games , handheld got 9, there is no reason to say GGEN is dead on console

[redeyedraven]

BAMCO want to make money off of the games, so they nowadays try to release them on as many platforms as possible, especially now that they started bringing more stuff to western markets.

Eternal is likely not meant to replace the series itself on the console-(and PC-)markets.

[Purple Sauce]

That would be a loss of a large gaming market for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Why would they do such a thing after releasing SRW 30 made them so much money?!?!?

[Metal Izanagi]

Eternal isn't going to replace the series as a whole, what are you even talking about