Nioh crosses 1 million shipments and becomes Koei Tecmo’s most successful game ever

Nioh is a solid action game and one of the highlights of one of the most impressive January-to-March post-holiday “slumps” in recent memory. You wouldn’t believe it from 2017, but this is supposed to be the time of year that publishers take it easy!

Not Koei Tecmo, that’s for certain, which claims that Nioh is its “most successful title in the west.” In an interview with MCVUK, General Manager Yasutomo Watanabe claims that the action game has reached 1 million households and praises the efforts of Team Ninja, which had been struggling in recent years.

Nioh is a title reflects a lot of creativity and a lot of soul, and is a reflection of what made Team Ninja a successful studio in the first place. It’s a triumphant return to the studio’s strengths and media and players reacted very positively.

Watanabe also pointed towards Nioh’s unique approach to polish and closing out development. After much of the game was already finished, Koei Tecmo released a series of demos and incorporated fan feedback into the final product, essentially making it a focus group in which anyone could participate.

From a development standpoint, the approach Team Ninja chose yielded very important results, as they essentially included the wider public on development decisions from an early stage with the release of the Alpha demo.

Being so open, [as well as] incorporating feedback from the fans certainly helped increase interest in the game and shape players’ expectations.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/03/31/nioh-crosses-1-million-shipments-and-becomes-koei-tecmos-most-successful-game-ever/