Yesterday, Valkyria Chronicles™ released for PC via digital download, and during its first 24 hours on sale blew all forecasts and predictions out of the water. The award-winning Strategy RPG, originally released in 2008 for PlayStation®3, forced its way to the top of the Steam download charts, beating a host of brand new games to reach number one.

"We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the fans for their support in the phenomenal success of this launch," said John Clark, Senior Vice President of Commercial Publishing for SEGA Europe, "We're also delighted at the response from the Steam community which indicates that newcomers to the series are finding it as enchanting and engaging as those who have played it before."

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This is fantastic news. VC will be seen by much more players now and sends the right message to Sega. If they localize them, we'll buy them.

Make a new one for current gen Sega. Do it! Playing through it again on PC, still like this game a whole lot. Susie best scout!

Who was it that said that there was no demand for this game on PC?

I like to put my money where my mouth is. And while I still have the PS3 version of Valkyria Chronicles and it has aged well enough that the PC version isn't that necessary (the cutscenes are the PS3 ones anyway), I just wanted to encourage SEGA to make the Valkyria Chronicles series available to a wider range of people. That's why I bought this version of the game. And I am happy to see I am not the only one.

Also, a lot of sales mean more people playing the game. And lemme tell you: more people playing Valkyria Chronicles is NO BAD THING.

P.S. : @nefarious_al: Aika best scout. She's from Skies of Arcadia, damn it !

Total War, Football Manager and now this. PC <3 Sega.

PC gamers are starved for Japanese games. It's the biggest weakness that Steam has. It's why I'm super glad Square is releasing stuff, as well. Hopefully more people get on board with this.

If you do a great port of a fantastic game it will sell well, who knew :), good on them, I hope this will possibly give them the idea to bring VC2 and VC3 as well, but since those were psp games and VC3 wasn't even localized it would be a considerable greater effort to port, so I'll not get my hopes up.

But hey who knows, we might see a bayonetta 1 on pC or maybe Vanquish.

Played the hell out of the ps3 version and now will do everything once again on the PC, great game.

Crossing my fingers for Vanquish.

It's apparently a pretty good port, too.

http://www.pcgamer.com/valkyria-chronicles-pc-port-analysis-durantes-verdict/

Cut scenes are still PS3 resolution, there's no mouse support for menus, but other than those pretty minor issues, I'd say everything else looks great. Fully rebindable controls. Mouse and keyboard or controller support.

On a side note, as I went to buy it, I couldn't find Assassin's Creed. I thought maybe Ubi pulled it off Steam again, but it's just fallen off the top seller's list.

Ok Sega, now do something with that success.

...still waiting for more Yakuza.

I really think this is what's going to happen. Considering every dollar coming in from now on is a dollar that Sega never even dreamed of getting from VC1, there is no reason why they should'nt at least consider doing it for 2 and 3. It might be trickier though since those are psp games and might look crappier on a pc screen.

If they're on the same engine it shouldn't be tooooo hard, the engine scales incredibly well, still looking great at 4k+.

Well, that's what happens when you advertise a game and the internet has kinda been advertising the game in place of Sega for 6 years. The fact it's a good port and it only cost $20 obviously helps too though.

I hope in some weird way, this somehow convinces them to bring over PSO2...

So, yeah, that means the same thing would happen with more Yakuza games in the West...right, Sega?

2 and 3 were on the PSP, and ran on a different engine. Still, porting it shouldn't be too difficulty.

It's like Sega has no idea which properties people actually care about and just assume Sonic forever.

Still haven't picked it up, probably should as I never got around to finishing the game on PS3.

Hey these PC things are pretty hot. Who knew?

I never had a PS3 and I love SRpgs and strategy games in general, so I can't wait to pick this up for myself. I'm all for as many games being playable as many ways as possible.

"We will be glad to use this money on the next 3D Sonic"

Wish I had the money to pick this up when it released. I'll definitely be getting it whenever possible. I'm glad that it did well for them and that the port is actually good.

Mystery solved. The guy leading Sega is actually the disembodied ghost of Michael Jackson.

@turambar: Wiki says they're the same engine, so really the only thing holding them back now is the localisation of 3. Other than one of the images I saw from either 2 or 3 looking a bit adolescent in nature, I'm all for more of these games being available for me to play.

Freesia York is best scout AND best girl!

...Jann is best Lancer

@alexw00d: The less powerful hardware impacted the game design, as well as lower poly models the maps were all broken up into chunks.

High res versions of the assets probably don't exist. At this point they should just make a new one.

@robsamuel: Agreed, very much doubt they will put any effort into porting psp games regardless of this games success.

If they gauge interest to be high enough a new game would make more sense, and personally be more interesting, than a handheld port.

Shows how out of touch Japanese devs are with the PC market.

"Nobody was really asking for Sega to port Valkyria Chronicles to PC"

Tbf, in checking the wiki pages, I realised I'd forgotten just how terribly low res that PSP screen was.

How does the game look different on PC? Is a higher resolution the only differentiating factor or are other aspects of the visuals better as well?

I wonder how many units they've actually sold...

It is currently number 3 on the Steam top sellers list behind CoD and Football Manager 2015, so, pretty good.

God does that mean I might finally get to play VC3? Dare I hope!?

Yes! Moar on steam. Developers don't understand how much we like to have things nice and clean on STEAM. Hopefully this will send signals, I want Persona and Shadow of the Collosus and other random good games on PC!

Don't really think that Persona will happen, especially since the series seems to have an exclusivity deal with Sony. Sony VERY rarely allows their exclusives to be brought across to other platforms. Same with Shadow of the Colossus. Then again, Valkyria Chronicles was a PS3 only game, so who knows what may happen.

The success of this, the almost guaranteed success of MGS GZ and PP on Steam and the success/continued support of FF13 on Steam is a very positive indicator of things to come for the PC platform though, especially from the Japanese publishers and developers. It's almost as though PC players like paying for quality products or something.

@esrever: Jane is best girl. She kills all Imp scum.

Alien Isolation received a nice response from the PC community, too, and that was also a Sega joint.

@adequatelyprepared: They clearly don't have any exclusivity deals with Q coming to the 3DS. It's more likely that they just can't justify releasing their games on multiple platforms. (They've only released a handful of multiplatform releases in their entire existence as a developer.)

Not that it changes the point. If they were going to pick other platforms to release games on I highly doubt PC would be a first choice. Unless this becomes some kind of SEGA initiative and they allocate resources outside of Atlus to handle PC ports.

I bought it solely so Sega would make a new one already. The game had such a solid gameplay core, and it would have been amazing if it had been iterated upon in a real, home console sequel. If Sega had taken the opportunity to work out the first game's issues in a proper sequel, then it would have easily been one of the best games of the generation.

imagine if the persona games went to pc. Shit would be crazy. It'd be like a money printing machine.

Nah Susie best scout and girl. Doesn't get better than saying "I'm a pacifist!" right before she shoots some dude in the face.

Yeah that's what I meant, not much about the engine, but they'd have to pretty much redo all the art assets since the ones from the psp version when blown up to 1080p must look like utter garbage.

What a nice, uplifting and positive piece of news.

:D

This game isn't perfect, but it deserves this success. Very happy to hear.

Sega have such a rich catalogue of games they could be taking advantage of but simply don't. Releasing this certainly was a surprise so let's hope that this trend continues rather than seeing Sega's typical out put of Sonic and Aliens.

As a huge fan of Valkyria Chronicles, I'm glad to see the game get some much needed love after all this time. Now if only Sega would see fit to make a new game in the series.

Just an FYI but 3 probably has the darkest tone/story in the series, there are a lot of fucked up moments in that game

@starvinggamer VC3 already has a translation patch if you really want to play it

That's great and all, but I just don't want to see pictures of cartoon people with oversized boobs, it was probably just concept art, but ew.

For reference I meant this, it just creeps me the eff out soz. Damn wikia showing newly added stuff in the bottom corner.

@alexw00d: I don't know if I should tell you this, but uh, you can find plenty of pictures like that of the first game too. They're not representative of the game.

@alexw00d: Sadly that tends to be what gets games to sell in Japan these days

@alexw00d: Based on the acronym attached to that image, I'd say that's from Valkyria Chronicles Duel, which is some weird mobile card game. It's fan-service-y as fuck. Still sadly VC-related, but nothing to do with VC3 itself.

@jrm said:

Never say never. SEGA is weirdly committed to this - the port was made internally rather than being farmed out to a third party. Also, porting a PSP game is most likely quicker (and cheaper) than creating an entire new game from scratch.