First of all permenant death have been around in games longer and with far bigger games than Fire Emblem. Using a single feature to say this is a copying of the formula is the same as saying Sonic and Metroid are the same because both characters can turn into a ball. It's fairly ludicrous when Valkyria is going to turn out to be closer to an action RPG.
You're second point is pretty silly when SEGA's last Valkyria game was in 2011 and the current Valkyria isn't even a SRPG.
Maybe it's time you give up because it seems you're content with moving goal posts and don't really seem to have any singular point to your discussion except SEGA is really bad and Nintendo is great, I wish the latter goes bankrupt and stripped down for my own personal reasons and Nintendo can revive them (which is completely outside the realms of possibility.)
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EH now that I've read this it's easy to see how you come to such a poor conclusion and seem to hardly research the subject matters.
And the Mega Drive was out before Sonic anyway.
VC isn't anywhere as charming and the permadeath in that game isn't well thought out unlike Fire Emblem. Fire Emblem is known for its charm in characters....something that the new Valkyria game is going to do and I said that it SOUNDS like a Fire Emblem ripoff and not LOOKING like one. Also, there's a difference between Sonic and Metroid but I don't want to go into detail about it.
Genesis was out before Sonic but if it weren't for Naka-San, Genesis wouldn't be able to compete with SNES because Nintendo at the time no matter what games they had, they still have Mario and that's something that SEGA needed to do...competing against him which Naka-San did. Talk about logic here.
Let me spell out here. You are defending SEGA by saying that SEGA and Sega sammy are completely different. Whether they are differences between them or not, they are losing more and more of their audiences if they keep doing dump decisions like how they just did now. Not being in E3 whatsoever because of their american division moving to San Francisco, Announcing Fire And Ice.....and lastly, not releasing much of games in this year.
Arcades......well can you tell me where I can play their arcades in the western market? Why oh why are you defending them on releasing things that aren't in the west? That sounds like you are worshipping them even if they haven't released anything for you. Nintendo has a Rhythm Heaven game for the 3DS in Japan and I swear that if that game isn't released in the west (and I'm saying this because it does do well here in the west) then I'll be angry at NoA because they decide what works in the west and what doesn't and its their fault that we can't get games like the exclusively Japan region Fire Emblem games from NES-GBA.
Mobile and PC........Again, the only reason why the hell they are profitable there is because of western studios and as the previous comment stated.......Phantasy Star can't even beat Monster Hunter the only IP that Capcom ever has to survive. Sad how SEGA can't even compete to the likes of Capcom let alone Nintendo for that matter. Infact, despite their annoying decisions, I can say that Capcom is better than SEGA in many ways.
While we're at it, let's talk PC.....Besides the Genesis and a few Dreamcast games along with some console ported games, what the hell did they just release brand new as of now? And I'm talking about an IP that they dedicated so much and released it into PC. Don't you dare mention any console games that they ported to PC's because that doesn't count. I'm talking about games they have released EXCLUSIVELY on PC. And publishing doesn't count. I'm talking internally like solid exclusive PC gaming in mind....what the hell did they release exclusively on PC?
Phantasy Star Online 2 which already got a PC release is now getting a PS4 port? What bloody sense does that make? They stated that they will focus on Mobile and PC market and yet, they are wasting money on porting their games to consoles? Yeah......that's a head scratch right there. I'd rather see them do a NEW phantasy star game than PORT an already perfect game on console.
Nintendo is better than SEGA because while they still can't satisfy everyone and are often criticised for not making their systems powerful, they atleast make games that a LOT of people want. I love Mario games and I'll be DAMMED if Nintendo never made a new Mario game for their next console NX. They take their time and dedication to make quality games in the end. Other M wasn't criticised for its existence. It was criticized for its story..that's it. Recent games that Nintendo had this year weren't developed by them but they published them. You can't say that they are to be blamed because they had no involvement when they only publish games.
Which is why SEGA as a whole is a joke. Publishing wise, they do mixed. Some are fine and others are a joke. Development wise is also the same. You can say praise for SEGA because of them publishing games that they didn't involve in yet put your thumb down on Nintendo for just doing the same for this year? Its publishing not developing.
