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Originally Posted by Revolver Koala

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Point 1: I have no idea how the Korean/Asian PS2 release of Exceed sold, but I would not attribute its success or failure to anything we did in the USA; if it was a success, I would not expect the failure of the American PS2 port to affect future Asian releases

Point 2: It's true that the Exceed SE did terribly because there was little to no interest generated about it, but with a mediocre product (Exceed SE's presentation was beyond awful) and a small fan base, Andamiro's advertising philosophy in the USA ("Print five publicity posters and accidentally ship them to a Starbucks in Montana. Promotion? That costs money! Get the players to do it!") really destroyed what chance it might have had of mainstream success

For the record, I enjoy these games, want them to succeed, and try to get other people to play them, but my devotion does not go to the point of being an unpaid PR employee for Andamiro. Not that I thought you were insinuating that we should be; I just felt like pointing out that blaming Exceed SE's poor sales is a gross oversimplification and that Pump might do better over here if Andamiro would bother to advertise.

Whether or not they didn't or did or are not going to advertise, the point is the sales weren't good enough for AM to put forward the money into making a PS2 port. The PSP works better for them. Fine.

And its a fact AM makes the most money off of their arcade cabinets. Turkeyslam at PH already confirmed over 80 NX cabinets IN KOREA ALONE. Korea is roughly the size of New York State. Why would they now make it so you don't have to go to the arcade to dance, now just pay one payment of $49.99 for your disc and pad and never go to the arcade again cause frankly, why should you? You can just go out and mod the pad to have a base of whatever you want, or even buy a metal one.

Maybe i'm just lucky I have a Zero arcade machine near here, so when i'm tired of playing that and don't want to dance anymore after rounds of fun gameplay, I can sit down and play the same songs on my PSP until i'm ready again to get back on the pad.