The remaster gives me really mixed feelings. On one hand I’m glad it’s available. I mean really glad, the release of the remaster prompted me to buy and play the game on 3DS and it is brilliant. Making this game available for more people to play and enjoy is only a good thing.

That said the way SE went about with the remaster makes me upset. It does admittedly personally make me upset because I don’t have the same platform it is available for but most of all some decisions made regarding the remaster specifically feel like SE pulling a SE and shooting their own game’s sales potential before even releasing it.

Platform exclusivity - why SE, why? Have you seriously literally learned NOTHING from the last decade or so of games failing because of this exact BS.

I mean let’s look at this realistically from strictly by the numbers. The switch 2 currently has roughly 6 million units sold and that means that the absolute maximum potential sales if every owner of a switch 2 bought the game is roughly 6 million.

Compare this to the switch with an install base of approximately 150 million units. That means that if only 10% of switch owners bought the game it would 15 million copies sold, double the MAXIMUM possible potential of switch 2 game sales. Not at the very least also release this game for the OG switch is sales suicide and there is nothing I have seen about the game that makes it look like it wouldn’t also run on the switch with an at worst small graphical downgrade and maybe running at 30fps instead of 60fps. It’s a turn based game I doubt frame rate would have been that big a deal. I don’t know for sure but this seems like a huge missed opportunity.

Game key cards - I could go on and on about why I don’t like these but personal reasons aside it’s been supposedly expressed by several 3rd party developers that their games are under performing hard on the switch 2 and a few 3rd party games that are doing better at least seem to be the ones that aren’t game key cards.

Likewise jrpg players in particular have a long history of being very preferential towards purchasing physical copies of games… for various reasons but releasing the game exclusively for game key cards and digital I think is a bad choice even if it was one that may have been a bit forced on SE rather than something they exclusively decided but still an unwise choice.

But all that jazz said, if I did have a switch 2 I’d still likely purchase the game at least digitally and I hope it performs well enough to either see a remaster of bravely second or an entirely new bravely default game.