Project Diva f and Project Diva f 2nd Competing for Sales?

Last week, Sega of America revealed a new trailer for the English version of Project Diva f. A few days later Sega of Japan also posted a new trailer for Project Diva f 2nd, which has currently only been confirmed for release in Japan. Both games will be released in March, so the timing window of the English release of Project Diva f might not be ideal. In the comments on the PlayStation blog post for the trailer of the original Project Diva f, we can see some people state that they won’t buy the game because it’s being released as a PSN digital download only, or because they already intend to import Project Diva F/f 2nd instead. We can also see comments from others that intend to double dip and buy the English version of the game for the PS Vita despite already buying it on PS3.

It’ll remain to be seen what this means for the sales of the game. An important factor here is of course going to be the game’s price, and at this point we don’t know yet how much the PS Vita version will cost. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, the PS3 digital download version is still being sold at its original price. That’s probably a good sign, seeing how poor sales often result in a rapid discount of a game only months after its release. However, trying to sell the game at a high price might not be the right approach for the upcoming PS Vita version. The Vita isn’t selling particularly well outside of Japan and many Project Diva fans have already bought either the Japanese version of Project Diva F/f or the English version on PS3. It’ll be interesting to see what price Sega intends to sell the game at and whether fans will end up skipping the English version of Project Diva f and import Project Diva f 2nd instead. In any case, the sales of the English version of Project Diva f will be an important factor in deciding the future of the franchise outside of Japan. If you plan to buy either of these games, let us know in the comments! We’d love to hear our readers’ opinion on the matter!

Below are the two trailers mentioned earlier. The first one is the official English trailer for Project Diva f on the PS Vita. The one after that is a 4 minute trailer for the Japanese version of both Project Diva f 2nd and Project Diva F 2nd, detailing all the various aspects of the game.