Advertising rep Takatoshi Sato at Genki, the studio behind Tokyo Xtreme Racer, has revealed particulars in regards to the Early Entry launch of the racing sport in a brand new interview. Chatting with Automaton Media, Sato has revealed that Tokyo Xtreme Racing has been performing fairly nicely, and that its early entry launch was an important begin.
“I’ll chorus from commenting on particular gross sales figures (laughs), however in case you ask me whether or not I think about TXR successful as Genki’s advertising and marketing rep, I’d say that it’s off to an important begin,” responded Sato when requested whether or not studio Genki thought-about the racing sport successful. “Nevertheless, I do suppose there’s nonetheless room for progress.”
The query got here from the truth that, on launch, Tokyo Xtreme Racer noticed a good bit of optimistic consideration, and even obtained round 15,000 concurrent gamers on Steam. Sato believes that the Tokyo Xtreme Racer franchise title has helped within the newest title’s Early Entry success.
“It’s performing nicely now due to the franchise’s recognition, however I feel it has potential to do even higher,” stated Sato in regards to the sport’s success. “The opinions we’ve acquired from gamers thus far have been very optimistic, so I feel we will count on extra progress sooner or later.”
When requested about how most of the Steam wishlists that Tokyo Xtreme Racer ended up on ended up as gross sales of the sport, Sato stated that, whereas the ratio between gross sales to wishlists was larger than the studio anticipated, it fell inside projections for the studio.
“It turned out virtually precisely as I’d calculated,” stated Sato. “It was a bit of larger than anticipated, however principally throughout the anticipated vary.”
A revival of traditional racing franchise, Tokyo Xtreme Racer was launched again in January as an Early Entry sport on Steam. Whereas it options the identical emphasis on velocity and making tight corners nicely as different racing video games, what units Tokyo Xtreme Racer aside from its contemporaries is its SP Battle system.
The system makes use of a numerical worth known as Spirit Factors that measures the willpower of drivers within the sport. Making good use of those Spirit Factors is likely one of the elements gamers should grasp of their time with Tokyo Xtreme Racer.
For extra particulars on Tokyo Xtreme Racer, take a look at our Early Entry overview.