The previouse entry, full boost, sold around 269,000 units during its week one. That means maxiboost on sold less than half in its first week compared to its previous entry. Game sales like most things have the strongest sales in their first week or so then trend downwards. The fact Bandai has never made any statements i can find about its sales numbers after that seems to inidcate to me at least that it didnt do too hot after the first week. They normally love announcing sales milestones like that.
As for the chinese market, they definitely love their gacha games and seem to buy games made by chinese devs, but unless its changed very recently they typically do not buy other game software to the same degree as other countries do, preferring to pirate it instead. Its why nintendo has had so much issue breaking into their market for decades due to the rampant piracy that the ccp does nothing about. I have definitely seen that gundam is popular there but in general i dont know what % of the gundam fanbase actually plays their games, especially a 3d fighter with a huge learning curve like gundam versus.
Generally i think Bandai just doesnt want to bother releasing gundam versus on console anymore let alone pc because it is more profitiable for them to leave it arcade exclusive.
It doesn't matter how the statement sounds, the sales numbers of maxiboost on seem to reflect what I said, as it has sold less than previous entries. The game pretty much flopped when it released on console and the playerbase died within a few months. Asia still has a big arcade culture unlike the west so people still prefer going to play this kind of game in an arcade setting, especially since maxiboost on didnt provide any meaningful single player content. Also, as I mentioned, the arcade sales would be directly impacted by porting it to begin with since they don't make anywhere near as much money from people paying one time to play it on pc as they would from people spending a couple of days playing it an arcade. Games like Gundam versus have a smaller but dedicated fanbase, so they mostly make their money from repeat players, so giving those players a much cheaper option would directly cut into their profits and would not "print them money" as you claimed it would. In fact it would lose them money.
Also expecting the chinese to pay for their video games? LOL. The country that has an entire culture about bootlegging and pirating software? If they release the game on PC there would be millions playing the game but still have almost no sales.
The arcade being popular won't necessarily translate to people playing it (or more importantly, BUYING it) on pc. Again Gundam is a niche series, even in Japan. In fact Maxiboost ON has not sold anywhere near as well as previous entries in the series. They have even already released 3 arcade only sequel titles in Japan since maxiboost ON came out (two of which came out after maxiboost came out on PS4) but none of them made the leap to console (or PC) since, and there seems to be no plans to port them. Why do you think that is? It doesn't make them money and likely eats into their arcade profits. They have no incentive to port the game to PC.
Yep, IIRC this is a continuous plot thread for the entire first season that they want to kill Chuck as soon as they rebuild the Intersect. There is also the constant threat that they may find it too dangerous to continue letting him live normally and may lock him up somewhere for protection during the first few seasons. Later plotlines reveal that the government is directly responsible for the events that led to Chuck's family falling apart. The show even subtly slipped in a few "are we the baddies?" moments where Chuck is forced to make choices that don't sit well with him.
I feel like Chuck is a bit more of a nuanced case. It does present an idealistic view on the alphabet agencies for sure but frequently Chuck runs into situations where his own morality clashes with the government and he frequently becomes disillusioned with them. Several of the shows main villains only became that way because the government ruined their lives and the show doesnt shy away from pointing that out.
It's the "stretching a 17 page manga chapter into a 25 minute anime episode" technique. I prefer the Naruto approach where they caught up to the manga then made up bullshit filler storylines for a year until the manga was far enough ahead to continue following the real story again. At least you can skip filler episodes. You can't skip it when the episode has the filler embedded.
These are the same people who think men can get pregnant so...