Demon’s Souls picked up for European distribution – finally
Many gamers in Europe were disappointed to hear that Demon’s Souls would not be releasing outside the U.S. and Japan. However, recent findings indicate that the game may finally be heading overseas to Europe.
The only reason Demon’s Souls landed in the U.S. was by the will of Atlus. The publisher decided to take a gamble and have the game localized for U.S. distribution. Unfortunately Atlus’s reach only extends to the U.S. as the publisher has no presence in Europe.
Atlus’s main PR guy Aram Jabbari apologized to bitter European PS3 owners and provided some hope by saying if Demon’s Souls sells well in the U.S., a bigger publisher may pick it up for European distribution. It seems like this is exactly what has happened.
Atlus projected that Demon’s Souls would sell 75,000 units in the U.S. However, according to Silconera Demon’s Souls sold 280k some units as of February 2010, exceeding Atlus’s expectations. VGChartz’s estimated figures indicates that the game may have sold as much as 540k units to date and 740k units world wide.
According to Kotaku a new listing for Demon’s Souls popped up on Germany’s ratings board recently. It seems like a giant publisher (Namco Bandai) did indeed pick up the game for distribution across Europe.
European sales will probably match U.S. sales giving Namco Bandai a nice boost in its lineup. However, I can’t help imagine that there is a high level exec at Namco Bandai kicking himself for not picking up worldwide publishing rights for Demon’s Souls from the beginning. It looks like Atlus will continue to bring great niche games to the U.S. with 3D Dot Game Heroes this May.
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April 15th, 2010
This is only more good news for Sony who owns the IP. I hope Demon’s Souls continues selling awesome.
April 15th, 2010
Thee is a review of this in the latest OPS magazine here is Aus…so yay for us!!
April 15th, 2010
sweet. . .cant wait to get this
April 15th, 2010
This is good news for European gamers.
Now they too can discover the wonderful joy of dying over and over again.
April 15th, 2010
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Hahahaha, good one! Good game but it fuck it’s a bitch! lol
April 15th, 2010
the game is not that hard once you pass the first leve (kill the first demon), after that you can get help from other online players and you can level up.
the hard part (and time consuming) comes from farming souls and getting destroy by Black Phantoms (other players ivading you games to kill and steal your souls), but once again you can farm at someone else’s game and gain souls from their game, if you die you wont lose any souls as you ONLY lose souls in you OWN game/world.
April 15th, 2010
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Ya I still have to finish it, have so many games on the back burner!
April 15th, 2010
ahh, you need to finish it, DS is a awesome game
check this out for tips and hints about the game, and also some stories of our DS’s experience
http://blorge.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=133
April 15th, 2010
DS is great until you beat a level. Once you know enemy positions and the level layout, it becomes very easy to get thru them.
You don’t really need to farm tbh either. The game isn’t THAT hard, it just doesn’t have checkpoints like most/all new games these days.
Its a great game tho. I just wish that it was longer, or that there was some kind of DS RPG using the same moving/fighting mechanics.
April 15th, 2010
Isreal gos country bans iPad over everything. CarlB would be piss off that his life was ban there.
April 15th, 2010
@Ivan
“Israel banned iPad”
You realize this is temporary right?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1163231.html
Can’t hurt the Ipad sales to bad.
April 15th, 2010
It would destroy more.
April 15th, 2010
Dates? Really looking forward to this!
April 16th, 2010
Just imported
April 16th, 2010
comes in June for those of you in Europe.
make sure you play them with friends, the game is way more fun and more rewarding playing it with friends.
here are some early tips you will need to know in order to play with your friend.
for you and someone to be able to play together you will need to be less than 10 levels apart from each other. a level 40 charactr cannot play with a level 60. you have to be 10 levels or less higher/lower than the other character.
in Demon’s Souls you can choose when you want to level up and what stat you want to boost, just make sure you dont lose all you souls and if you die just make SURE you dont die again on your way to recover those lost souls as you will only get ONE chance to recover them.
April 16th, 2010
“for you and someone to be able to play together you will need to be less than 10 levels apart from each other. a level 40 charactr cannot play with a level 60. you have to be 10 levels or less higher/lower than the other character.”
actually its a little more complicated
Level Restrictions
Add 10 to 10% of your current Soul level to find the range (above or below your SL) within summoning or being summoned by other player(s).
April 16th, 2010
@RomasantaMC
I really dont understand the level restriction you just posted, I do know that players with 11 levels above or below yours wont be able to be summoned.
I spend over 180hrs in that game (im at level 205) and I got to played with Barnabe Jones for the most part and we had to wait on each other to be ‘at least’ 10 levels apart from each other.
go to this website for more info:
http://demonssouls.wikidot.com
April 16th, 2010
@Roca
http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/online
look under level restrictions.
Example: if your LV100 you can summon anyone 20Lvs above or below yours.
The formula is
10+10%(Of your soul level)=(amount +or- of soulLV you can summon or be summoned to)
If your were 205 you should only had to wait til he was within 30LVs of you to play with him.
April 16th, 2010
“If your were 205 you should only had to wait til he was within 30LVs of you to play with him.”
actually that is incorrect because after the formula was applied to him he would not meet the requirments to be summoned to your world. But he should have easily been summoned in at level 180
April 16th, 2010
@RomasantaMC
ohhhh sounds better, maybe it change now because whenever BJ and I tried it with 11+ levels apart from each other it never worked….even at around 150.
I really want a sequel for this game, I will be please even if they dont change anything from the first one…maybe a little longer but the whole game was awesome.
April 16th, 2010
I’m working on it.
April 17th, 2010
I have to get my copy back from my nephew and play it somemore again, I can’t even remember what lvl I retired it at (250 ithink?).
April 18th, 2010
“Isreal gos country bans iPad over everything. CarlB would be piss off that his life was ban there.”
Guess it’s a good thing I currently live in Japan, where iPods rule, and iPads are soon to follow, if they can ever stop selling out in America to make them available here that is.
April 18th, 2010
Sure okay i live in HEAVEN.
April 19th, 2010
Really? Say hi to Toshi for me.
http://www.theheavencity.com/project.html
Oh… you meant THAT heaven… that’s funny, I thought you would have been able to play GT5 up there by now at least. You must have been bad.