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Were you surprised at the reaction your bullet hell games when they were released on iOS?

Yes, I was very surprised. I knew we had some dedicated fans through contact via the internet and some French fans who had visited the company.

Are casual games now the main focus for Cave?

Let me make it clear - Cave won't turn its back on our fanbase.

In Japan, there were rumors that Cave was going to back out of hardcore games and we had to go through a lot of effort to dispel that. We're very happy with the amount of support we get from our players.

We're going to keep making hardcore games, and at the same time we'll be growing our social and casual games divisions, for which the market is quickly expanding.

Mortipoil a écrit :Cave n'est pas mort, mais la 360 est quasi morte au Japon. La console est maitnenant bradée, de même que les jeux.
Ce serait donc logique (malheureusement) que le développeur se tourne vers la PS3/PSVita et iOS pour ses futures adaptations.
Sauf si nous les occidentaux achetons les jeux Cave par palettes de 1000 bien entendu, là on aura un moyen de pression.

Pour rappel, sur 360 :

- DoDonpachi Daifukkatsu BL 10.000 ventes au Japon
- Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 30.000 ventes au Japon
- Espgaluda 2 BL 40.000 ventes au Japon
- Deathsmiles 50.000 au Japon, 30.000 en Europe et 90.000 aux USA
- Akai Katana Shin 10.000 au Japon
- Muchi Muchi Pork & PS 20.000 au Japon

Non Cave n'est pas mort, mais ce n'est pas avec des ventes aussi, pardonnez-moi l'expression, minables, que les perspectives financières du développeur sont encourageantes. Il y a intérêt à faire de l'argent sur l'arcade, parce que les conversions 360 doivent être à peine rentables (si elles ne sont pas déficitaires).

There were a couple points related to console and arcade development that didn't make it into the latest mobile-focused interview with our COO. You can read them right here! Mr. Watanabe also wrote a brief note to CAVE's international fans at the end.


Xbox 360 Business (Overseas)
We’ve published Deathsmiles internationally with American and European publishers and I think we will continue to put them out in consultation with these partners. Also, at this August’s stock holder meeting, we’ll be officially changing our English name to “CAVE Interactive Co., Ltd.” For people in the English-speaking world, we sometimes get asked “CAVE? Is that a cliff-diving spot or something?”, so we decided to make it easier to understand. We are going to keep putting out games overseas strategically. We’ll keep growing our social game projects, but at the same time work on getting our games to core fans more than before.


The Domestic Market
Unfortunately the size of the Xbox 360 Japanese domestic market is about 30% of the PS3 market and hardcore games are only selling about 20 to 30,000 copies. Still, there is a solid fanbase for shooters and adventure games, and we will continue to support the system.


Arcade Games (Domestic)
It's disappointing, but arcade games already do not make sense from a business perspective.
However, we will continue to develop arcade games since I believe that putting games out at Japanese game centers is an extremely effective marketing tool for CAVE’s shooters.


To all our overseas arcade game fans.

Consider picking up our future arcade boards via mail order!
If we sell 500 copies, we can make a new arcade shooter.

Also, a request for our international fans.
We've translated the CAVE homepage into English.

We're also supporting our international fanbase via twitter, Ustream and facebook. Please give us your comments. Our English-speaking staff read what you write and pass that on to the creators here."

Here at www.shmupemall.com ( biggest french shooting game dedicated website ), we support cave games and hope for a new shooting project soon, a new one or a compilation of unreleased aracde port like ibara kuro or esprade.