Atlus has achieved the unthinkable in recent years and that is to become one of those successful companies in the West with games that, until very recently, they did not want to leave Japan, and that remained as rare bird that we could only buy imported. Now, finally, it seems that those borders have been completely erased and those RPGs that are so personal to the Japanese are as popular as in their country of origin. Which seems to have happened with Metaphor ReFantazio.
This game, with a strange name if ever there was one, has been the last great success of the factory of the creators of Personin what seems like a total consolidation of a way of conceiving games that seemed forbidden only to Japanese minds. We say this not only because of its appearance, but also because of the themes they cover and, of course, the game mechanics, which are entirely designed for an audience that has required the same formula for decades.
Metaphor ReFantazio has been a success, surely?
The fact is that this new creature of Atlus is already among us and, unlike what a Personhas had the audacity to take us to a kind of medieval world, with magical elements, obviously, that is mixed with another dimension that takes place today and in whose duality lies part of its magic. At least that’s what those who have played it and already had experience in the games say. Person of recent times.
Well then, Metaphor ReFantazio It seems to be working very well, reaching high sales positions in the tops of the US and many countries in Europe, but that brilli brilli of success seems to be overshadowed by a blur. While on PS5 and PC things are going as expected publisherin Xbox Things have gone wrong from the beginning and have not moved at the pace of the rest of the platforms.
Furthermore, within the top who usually publishes Microsoft on their website Xbox For the US, it can be seen how Metaphor ReFantazio is ranked 48th while the Atlus 35th Digital Anniversary Edition It leaves beyond the 500th position. A brutality for a game that should have had a lot of attention from the players and that only confirms something that we all see every day: that those releases that are not in Xbox Game Pass, They struggle to reach a minimum number of units sold.
Complicated to be able to overcome soon
What there is no doubt about is that Metaphor ReFantazio It’s going to be difficult to catch your breath on Xbox (look at monitors for your console), unless there is a scandalous discount that leads players to want to buy it. This news is what is later used by publishers to explain why they do not release, in some cases, their games on Xbox. Look what happened with Silent Hill 2which is only available for PS5 and PC and will not reach Microsoft consoles until, ultimately, the target figures have already been achieved on the rest of the platforms.
And that Microsoft managed to be the reference system in practically all the advertising of Metaphor ReFantazio. What if not…
