Give me a name so I can BLAME!

They never released the Trace Memory sequel in the US did they? I would have bought that one :(

Nintendo.

KELLI IS NOT PLEASED WITH NINTARDO

Insert snarky comment about third parties on Nintendo systems.

Except they were almost a second party to Nintendo with a lot of titles, including the Nintendo embraced Hotel Dusk and Trace Memory, being Nintendo exclusive.

Another company (Nintendo, for example) could just pay off their debt and then basically own them. Why not?

There you go.

Because even with Nintendo support they still haven't made any money.

Nintendo could always buy those properties if they wanted.

But it is a 3rd party that has given a quality effort behind its support for the Wii. That isn't something that grows on trees, you know. It makes it all the more sad that they're failing...

It's sad because a number of these games were on the back log of 'to buy'. I got King's Story right away and would have gotten Another Code R if it came out, but the others kept getting pushed back on my buy list for new games.

Did they really not make money...?

They always seemed like one of the more well-known devs -- people certainly talked about their games, especially on the DS, and they had a fair number out -- and the genres  they worked in don't seem particularly resource hungry.  What went wrong?

I think they are just a really small developer.  2.5 million seems like chump change compared to other companies.  They even still have two titles coming out this year.

2.5 Million?  Really?  That's it?
Think I can come up with 49,999 other Americans who want Another Code R released in the US?  I'll gladly donate $50 to the Save Cinq fund.  Who's with me?

If only they received all 50 of the $50, then that might be an achievable goal.
You will need at minimum double that 50k people, if not 2.5x the amount.

It's Nintendo's efforts that led to their non-games' successes.

It's Nintendo's fault for putting in non-effort, sending real games to die.

I wonder if they just didn't manage themselves well enough. Didn't King's Story take over 2 years to come out? Two years with the small return they got would have hurt almost any company.

i wasn't thinking of the donations being for copies of AC-R - I was thinking they'd be in exchange for them arranging for it to be released here.  You'd still have to buy a copy. ;)

Who is gonna do that?
If I donate $50 to them than they should give me a free copy of the game and bypass all the money draining, hand in the pot, piece of the pie snatching channels.