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Namco Bandai Has A "Surprise" For Tales of Fans In The West [Up: Japan Expo]
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Hours Left
Member
Mine is obviously implied.
Release a Tales game in English, and I'll buy it. It's not that hard Namco.
BassForever
Member
Don't worry when I see footage of Xillia/Innocence R/next Tales of in English I'll get my enthusiasm all over my monitor
Stop. Please.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I play MP with my bf and a few other people. It's fun. Xillia's multiplayer was unsatisfying, especially if you go for 3-4 player multiplayer. Kinda lame when it's just 2-player since we usually compete to see who takes out the most things on the field.
Well, you should pick out my avatar in the case that I lose.
I've actually found a few already. (sorry this is late, but I went out for a bit.) You make it sound like I'm going to pick a good one from pixiv.
Well, you should pick out my avatar in the case that I lose.
The game only exists on the PS3. A port would probably be too expensive for the amount of sales gained off it.
Wouldn't Namco be concerned about territories like Europe, where Vesperia was only on 360?
I play MP with my bf and a few other people. It's fun. Xillia's multiplayer was unsatisfying, especially if you go for 3-4 player multiplayer. Kinda lame when it's just 2-player since we usually compete to see who takes out the most things on the field.
I've actually found a few already. (sorry this is late, but I went out for a bit.) You make it sound like I'm going to pick a good one from pixiv.
Well, you should pick out my avatar in the case that I lose.
Omg... it's going to be really really bad isn't it.
Probably not.
FateBreaker
Member
I disagree. Dark Souls multiplatform seemed successful. NB must be aware of that.
I am sorry for getting your hopes up. There probably won't be a new localization announcement at all.
That game also was very "western" in its art design.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
It's not gonna be dirty or anything! :O
It's likely going to be tame and something that doesn't stand out, don't worry about it.
Byronic Hero
Member
They said at the end of this month. Still a couple of days to wait I guess.
Before Japan Expo next week most likely.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Dark Soul was done as multi game from the start and is no where near close to the style of tales games.
NB is not going to port a game to 360 where they know they might not even get 75k in sales.
Hell they lucky if a tale games sell 150k in NA.
Any body got a idea of how TOG did on PS3.
Around 63K LTD in America.
FateBreaker
Member
Really? Didn't know that. Source? Last I heard Vesperia 360 in the US was around 125k or something.
Hero of Legend
Member
TOS2 was around that if not a wee bit higher IIRC. Was that at the same timeframe? It was around the holiday season in 2008 when both came out I think (wasn't TOS2 around November and TOV in August?).
Edit: Yep, months are accurate after Wiki'ing them, damn I'm good! Graces f was in March, so we need to know how many months post-release each number is.
NPD.
yeah those are right.
I wasn't expecting anything dirty. Well, I hope I'm wrong. That way I can refuse to buy Xillia. LOL!
Oh. I was under the assumption that they were announcing something this week.
SolidSnakex
Member
I'd be surprised if ToGf even sold that much considering that NAMCO did next to nothing to advertise it. You had to be following it closely to even know that it was coming out.
Dark Souls wasn't multiplatform in Japan. PS3 only.
FateBreaker
Member
I don't understand these "style" arguments. Yeah, Dark Souls was more western looking, but Final Fantasy hardly is. And, yeah, I know, "but it's Final Fantasy, that's the exception." I know of Tales' history and I think the biggest fault of NB is this platform hopping. It does great on GC in the US, and that's the only one on GC. It does great on 360 in the US, but that's the only one on 360. In fact, and feel free to correct me, but as of what we know, aren't the non-Sony US Tales releases the best-selling in the US? In other words: Symphonia GC and Vesperia 360 > every other installment. (Again, only looking at US.) The style argument is just overused and I am still not super convinced by it.
At the very least and after the success of other "oh but that's an Eastern style visual" games that went multiplatform, like FFXIII, FFXIII-2, Catherine, Dark Souls (though more Western in look), Star Ocean (which, come to think of it, also did just as well on 360 than PS3 last I heard), I think that NB should at least experiment on a fully focused, big-effort multiplatform Tales release in the US. But that's just my thoughts.
At the very least and after the success of other "oh but that's an Eastern style visual" games that went multiplatform, like FFXIII, FFXIII-2, Catherine, Dark Souls (though more Western in look), Star Ocean (which, come to think of it, also did just as well on 360 than PS3 last I heard), I think that NB should at least experiment on a fully focused, big-effort multiplatform Tales release in the US. But that's just my thoughts.
Hero of Legend
Member
Wasn't it like that for the others as well? Vesperia I'd imagine would've had the largest push if any.
Byronic Hero
Member
Largest was Symphonia, cause it had Nintendo backing it.
SolidSnakex
Member
I really don't remember. But many of us found it odd that they were doing so little with ToGf. Smaller JRPG publisher take advantage of sites like Siliconera and other dedicated JRPG/Japanese gaming sites to really spread the word about their game. They even use the PSblog. But NAMCO really didn't do any of that. They just sat around until the week of the release before they really started releasing a decent amount of media.
They're already doing a much better job advertising Ni no Kuni than they ever did with ToGf.
Honestly, Tales is hardly concerned with the West. As far as I can tell, we're just getting games that just happen to come out in Japan. Notice how Baba stated in an interview a while back stating that he understands the Japanese audience and wouldn't really create a Tales catering to the Western audience. The same applies for business practices imo. Why would they pour resources into making Tales a multiplatform when the market probably doesn't exist for it on both systems?
If memory serves, it was also the justified reason why we didn't get the DC for the PS2.
I can confirm the number is real... ToA 3DS is about 20K less.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
gundamkyoukai
Member
How does that change what i said , it was done as a multiplatform game from the start .
The best selling tales game in NA was TOS but it had Nintendo backing it and it was on of the few RPG on GC compare to PS2.
TOV got push since it was early is the 360 life cycle .
My least favorite? His nurse outfit. It looks atrocious on him...
Like this..... http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=28222003
OMFG BRILLIANT!!!! http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=27860790
Xillia 2 looks terrible, Xillia looks meh and Graces F was a disappointment, ToI was terrible and I don't see ToI: R being any different.
At this point ToV PS3 ver. or ToH are the only surprises/announcements that could excite me but they're never going to happen. Even then I've come to realize I don't really like JRPG so this can't get me excited as it once would.
At this point ToV PS3 ver. or ToH are the only surprises/announcements that could excite me but they're never going to happen. Even then I've come to realize I don't really like JRPG so this can't get me excited as it once would.
sonikokaruto
Banned
I hope this is a 3DS game
Seven Force
Banned
...Ouch.
Abyss 3DS did somewhere in the ballpark of 85k altogether in Japan, didn't it?
Hahahaha, those numbers. Man, Graces did A TRO SHUS
It's a Tales game. Low sales should be expected when there's no advertising and the game has a small print run.
DR2K
Banned
Tales of Symphonia 3DS should have happened.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I shall take that into consideration, then.
Every pic in that set is so random. LOL. I love Pixiv, though. As long as you're looking for the right stuff, you're going to find well-drawn stuff.
So, this is the amount of people who demonstrated their enthusiasm?B.K. said:
sonikokaruto
Banned
I paid 80 for mine and then it got reprinted. I'm burning. Still.
Sammy Samusu
Member
This makes Graces F looks soooo bad, what the fuck, and we are talking about a good game, deserved to sell much more, so did Abyss 3D, but that's a port, smaller userbase, etc.
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