Why hasn’t there been Godzilla video games recently?

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Why hasn’t there been Godzilla video games recently?

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So why hasn’t there been any games about Godzilla recently. I would understand that Godzilla wasn’t really popular but as we seen in GvK box office it was one of highest grossing films in 2021. Sure maybe the movie industry wasn’t releasing movies at that time but I digress. From this I would assume there has been any attempt to make a official Godzilla video game, put the last Game we got was Godzilla PS4 (i’m not including the mobile games), and that was in 2014 nearly a decade ago, so as I said before why hasn’t there been attempted to make a video game recently?
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Same reason why there were no games between 2007 and 2014 probably.

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There have been. Unfortunately most western fans cannot access them as they are mostly mobile games in Japan. Much like from 1990 (after the release of the 2nd Godzilla game for the NES) to 1994 (the single release of Super Godzilla on SNES) to the release of DAM on Game Cube in late 2002, there wee a ton of Godzilla games on multiple consoles in-between, but only in Japan.

Actually mobile games overall (whether exclusive to Japan, or even released in North America), have pretty much overshadowed console release games for most of my favorite franchises, which is sad. I have zero interest in mobile games, and most of those are free!

It really says something that I miss paying $40-$60 for a good console game, and refuse to spend time to download an play mediocre-bad mobile games. Now I cant speak to the Godzilla ones because, as said, they are Japanese exclusives, but for other franchises I am interested in, I have zero interest in the mobile games made available.
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Its kind of funny that a lot of franchises back in the 2000s have been met with complete hiatus post that period

Star Wars, Godzilla, Transformers, and more, while Star wars hasn't been occupied due to EA's management of the license Godzilla and Transformers just can't seem to get new games despite their great success
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Let's be real, though. The era of film and TV properties getting tons of video games is long over.

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I'm guessing because of the horrible reviews the PS3/4 game got, publishers won't touch the license right now. Sad that movie tie in games are pretty much dead; I would have enjoyed seeing what KOTM or GvK console game would have been like.
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o.supreme wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:36 am There have been. Unfortunately most western fans cannot access them as they are mostly mobile games in Japan.
What are the current Godzilla mobile games that are Japan only?

Godzilla Defense Force, Run Godzilla, Godzilla Battle Line and Godzilla Destruction (although this title is about to be end of life'd) are available in most regions, including the US.
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I'm just surprised we haven't gotten ports of DAMM and/or STE.

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SG-17 wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:29 pm I'm just surprised we haven't gotten ports of DAMM and/or STE.
I'm pretty sure Pipeworks said it wasn't going to be possible (for ambiguous but probably legal reasons), although maybe that was just for remasters. I don't know if you're aware of Save the Earth Melee, a fan project trying to update the game (youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/user/Gojirex/videos).
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SG-17 wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:29 pm I'm just surprised we haven't gotten ports of DAMM and/or STE.
Spoke to Atari about it a few years ago. They decided it wasn't worth the time and money to do the remastering process etc. For the games to be remastered, Atari would have to do it since they own the game.
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Chris55 wrote: Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:58 pm
SG-17 wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:29 pm I'm just surprised we haven't gotten ports of DAMM and/or STE.
Spoke to Atari about it a few years ago. They decided it wasn't worth the time and money to do the remastering process etc. For the games to be remastered, Atari would have to do it since they own the game.
Unless their contract with Toho forbids it, they could have licensed out remasters.

Shame that we didn't even get a PS2 Classics release of STE for PS4 which aren't remasters, just the original game in an emulation wrapper. Hell, Nintendo has an emulation wrapper for GameCube games for the Switch available too.
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SG-17 wrote: Tue Mar 08, 2022 5:24 am
Chris55 wrote: Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:58 pm
SG-17 wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:29 pm I'm just surprised we haven't gotten ports of DAMM and/or STE.
Spoke to Atari about it a few years ago. They decided it wasn't worth the time and money to do the remastering process etc. For the games to be remastered, Atari would have to do it since they own the game.
Unless their contract with Toho forbids it, they could have licensed out remasters.

Shame that we didn't even get a PS2 Classics release of STE for PS4 which aren't remasters, just the original game in an emulation wrapper. Hell, Nintendo has an emulation wrapper for GameCube games for the Switch available too.
They have all the assets of the game. They'd have to buy the rights again, and find a developer to update everything to work with today's consoles. That's how it was explained to me.
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Sorry for Necroposting but its 2023 and theres ALOT of godzilla shizzz coming out so maybe we can expect a game or 2 soon

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