This game looks like an amazing shmup, too bad it will be stuck forever on exa.. No arcades even exist where I live in Europe, and I suppose that goes for most places in the world. A real shame.
I know the feeling - arcades are dead here. Luckily I've been a collector for a long time so I was able to sell some PCBs to pay for buying a system and some games. There are SNES and Megadrive games now costing as much as buying a new Aka & Blue cart, to put it in perspective.
@@system11yt True but those SNES and Megadrive games I can play through various options (be it emulation or buying them on modern consoles etc.) which morally I can justify to myself since the creators are no longer financially benefitting from them neither, if I were to emulate. In this case though I'm looking at what appears to be one of the best shmups released in the past decade (specifically version type-r) but there is no other way to play it except on mobile (but that's so different imo). In the case of SDOJ I can pick up the 360 version (with all its flaws, but it's there) but for this game it seems like it'll stay exclusive forever. It makes me very sad, honestly. I do wonder ihow this platform is doing financially though, because I don't think it'll work outside of Japan neither. Most western arcades don't focus on the games the platform is offering, mostly going for nostalgia and pulling an audience that gets all warm and fuzzy over pac-man and maybeeee a little metal slug, but definitely no CAVE shmups haha Unfortunately I cannot (and actually, will not even if I could) spend 5k on hardware and a single game. I don't have any PCBs to sell, that might've made a difference :) So I'm left wondering who is this Exa platform for, really? Now don't get me wrong this isn't FOMO in general, because almost all games on there are playable on other platforms. But Aka and Blue type-R is truly exclusive, which I guess does result in FOMO on my end lol
Awesome shmup,hard as hell!as for the exclusivity it’s not actually down to exa. TANOSHIMASU requested that it never has a port and remains a arcade exclusive this was the main condition TANOSHIMASU requested before making type R.
@@shmuproom1293 Well I suppose there is always room for them to make another version to release on consoles/pc, as long as it doesn't contain the relevant exa content. For now, I'll stick with games I can actually play for less than 2500 euro (+ 3000 for the hardware) :-)
@@WarlikeSRK It is a misconception arcades are dead outside of Japan. There are more arcades in USA by 5-6 times over Japan and no other arcade company is making these traditional type of games now so there is big demand from outside of Japan. No other Japanese company sold traditional arcade games outside of Asia for over the last 10 years so there was no chance for Western arcades to try to buy these type of games. No Cave CV1000 game was sold outside of Asia. 99.9% of Western arcade owners never had the chance to buy them when it was new. In the last Japanese interview, Exa said they already sold thousands of games throughout the world so I think they are doing fine. Exa is for businesses not individuals. They make games to sell to the arcade market. Cave and Raizing did the same thing when they made the best shmups in 90s and 00s. Is it FOMO when all of these arcade game companies only made games for the arcade market? Konami, Bandai Namco, Sega, Raw Thrills, these companies all still make arcade market only games. Because Exa makes exclusive games, you are interested. This is same as Mario and Zelda for Nintendo. Do you ask when Mario and Zelda will come to Xbox?
This game looks like an amazing shmup, too bad it will be stuck forever on exa.. No arcades even exist where I live in Europe, and I suppose that goes for most places in the world. A real shame.
I know the feeling - arcades are dead here. Luckily I've been a collector for a long time so I was able to sell some PCBs to pay for buying a system and some games. There are SNES and Megadrive games now costing as much as buying a new Aka & Blue cart, to put it in perspective.
@@system11yt True but those SNES and Megadrive games I can play through various options (be it emulation or buying them on modern consoles etc.) which morally I can justify to myself since the creators are no longer financially benefitting from them neither, if I were to emulate.
In this case though I'm looking at what appears to be one of the best shmups released in the past decade (specifically version type-r) but there is no other way to play it except on mobile (but that's so different imo). In the case of SDOJ I can pick up the 360 version (with all its flaws, but it's there) but for this game it seems like it'll stay exclusive forever. It makes me very sad, honestly. I do wonder ihow this platform is doing financially though, because I don't think it'll work outside of Japan neither. Most western arcades don't focus on the games the platform is offering, mostly going for nostalgia and pulling an audience that gets all warm and fuzzy over pac-man and maybeeee a little metal slug, but definitely no CAVE shmups haha
Unfortunately I cannot (and actually, will not even if I could) spend 5k on hardware and a single game. I don't have any PCBs to sell, that might've made a difference :) So I'm left wondering who is this Exa platform for, really? Now don't get me wrong this isn't FOMO in general, because almost all games on there are playable on other platforms. But Aka and Blue type-R is truly exclusive, which I guess does result in FOMO on my end lol
Awesome shmup,hard as hell!as for the exclusivity it’s not actually down to exa. TANOSHIMASU requested that it never has a port and remains a arcade exclusive this was the main condition TANOSHIMASU requested before making type R.
@@shmuproom1293 Well I suppose there is always room for them to make another version to release on consoles/pc, as long as it doesn't contain the relevant exa content. For now, I'll stick with games I can actually play for less than 2500 euro (+ 3000 for the hardware) :-)
@@WarlikeSRK It is a misconception arcades are dead outside of Japan. There are more arcades in USA by 5-6 times over Japan and no other arcade company is making these traditional type of games now so there is big demand from outside of Japan. No other Japanese company sold traditional arcade games outside of Asia for over the last 10 years so there was no chance for Western arcades to try to buy these type of games. No Cave CV1000 game was sold outside of Asia. 99.9% of Western arcade owners never had the chance to buy them when it was new.
In the last Japanese interview, Exa said they already sold thousands of games throughout the world so I think they are doing fine. Exa is for businesses not individuals. They make games to sell to the arcade market. Cave and Raizing did the same thing when they made the best shmups in 90s and 00s. Is it FOMO when all of these arcade game companies only made games for the arcade market? Konami, Bandai Namco, Sega, Raw Thrills, these companies all still make arcade market only games.
Because Exa makes exclusive games, you are interested. This is same as Mario and Zelda for Nintendo. Do you ask when Mario and Zelda will come to Xbox?