Hatsune Miku Project Diva Arcade game
Famitsu.com has revealed that sequel to the highly successful PSP Hatsune Miku game is going to be called “Project Diva ARCADE”, and Sega is going to be taking original song submissions for the game through niconico.
They will be taking submissions (original unreleased songs only) between the 15th of October to the 31st of October, and each song has to be approximately 3 minutes long. Songs that have been selected will be announced on the 16th of November, and the loketest will start January 2010.
Sega had announced a while ago on nico that they’re working on a sequel and will be taking submissions, but… an arcade game…?
October 5th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
http://miku.sega.jp/
Nothing much, but for those interested.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
> but… an arcade game…?
Makes plenty of sense.
Music arcade game still gets people (especially otakus) to put money in (eg Taiko no Tatsujin) and is easy to make updates to reboot the money-pumping process.
None of the TV consoles are a good candidate for this game - PS3 too expensive to develop, 360 not enough user base, Wii sales of otaku games had been extremely poor (eg even Haruhi completely bombed for Sega). Plus since Miku is a “Japanese only craze” there is nothing to gain to put it on the TV consoles as they won’t be selling it overseas anyway, making the 3 console even more of a poor choice domestically. Whereas Sega has their own cheap arcade boards and arcade centres still in operation.
Also once the arcade gets enough sales they can port it back to the PSP for a second round of money. Very good business sense.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:20 am
why not an arcade game? that’s where idolmaster started.
October 6th, 2009 at 3:19 am
I guess Zepy (and many others on the web) was surprised because the original game came out on the PSP, and with so much of Miku on PS Home a lot of people where expecting the next step up of the series will be the PS3, and if not would still be back on the PSP. But the fact is that PS3 is currently not a good investment for non-insane-budget games that has no international appeal because Japan itself cannot recoup on dev cost, and releaseing another PSP game so soon really isn’t much sense and hardly much of a “step-up” the franchise needs.
October 6th, 2009 at 6:49 am
I don’t get it (then again I never go to the arcade). They already have the PSP version, why not just make it again with more content. I would buy it. I want more motion capture dancing, tho.
But perhaps this will get the casual folks that hit the Rhythm Tengoku arcade machines et al and don’t use PSPs (a very small population?) Maybe it’ll give the game a hardcore edge since the PSP game was just 1 button (at a time). I don’t know, maybe it’s for exposure?
BTW, there are two official Google Chrome themes “by Artist” with Hatsune Miku in them. Nice. :)
October 6th, 2009 at 9:01 am
yay!!..even though I don’t have any PSP but
YAY!!
October 6th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
The staff at AM2 are big Miku fans, so it makes sense. I totally called this one!
October 7th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Actually Project Diva is made by Dingo
http://www.dingo.co.jp/
They have 39 employees and each one made each PV for Project Diva.
December 14th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Shame, what happens to the Miku fans outside of Japan (like myself)?
January 8th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
@Stelthg:I Agree, Its totally not fair. I Am so a really big fan of Miku Hatsune and vocaloid/utauloid. I Think they should make it for other consoles. Maybe it will become a great sucsess, I have lots of friends who love vocaloid. As long as there fans get what we want will keep on spreading the word about ‘Vocaloid’