Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7146531-20140131090141/@comment-108.59.17.6-20141205194449

True. Well have to see. The genre as a whole is on a cliffhanger. If it tips down it falls and dies off. But IF it tips up......How far will it go and wil it be enough to save the frachise. The issue is a number of things. Although I would love to see Ace Combat on a console other than Playstation, Another issue altogether is (in theory) that Japan's gaming net is not like America's. They aren't exactly as familair with Ameriican products i.e. Xbox as they are with nintendo or PS. Unlike Japan, We have access to both Japanese aswell as American products alot more frequently and they're more popular here. Of course, one could argue that ace combat was never a "big" title to begin with (It's far from an AAA game) and lacks sufficent resources to even make it. It's a wonder people in the PAL region still get Ace Combat games to date. Well, it was fun while it lasted but every franchise dies eventually. I find it strange though that Ace Combat was making good games up untill Zero. And then it went dead for no reason( I'm looking at Ace Combat 6s terrible story line and the Xbox 360 eclusive), It's almost like the devs never intended for the game to go that far but because people wanted more, they delivered. But about exclusives, your right. Ace combat is a sole japanese product and Xbox focuses on American games. At this point I'm a hopeful fanboy putting faith into a rapidly dying series that will be forgotten in the next few years. I'm practicaly asking for Warship Gunner 2 (a game made by another japanese company for PS 2 that almost no one plays) to be ported to Xbox 360 and remade with better graphics. It's just the fact that the genre is a realy cool and an original idea that offers a different experience from all of the other mainstream games out there. Summery, The main reasons why the game is dying and probably unsaveable by this point: 1 Unnaccessablity, Ace Combat is unnaccesable  to a lot of people do to budget and therefore platform restrictions. 2 It was cool back in 1999 but is now a niche in the gaming series and is not well known enough to succeed. 3. It can't be advertised do to low budget. 4. The people who play and actauly like it are few and far between.