Can i please get a next gen Arc the lad or Wild Arms? Put it on the Vita at least.
The original makers of Arc The Lad 1 and 2 (maybe 3) G-Craft was absorbed into Square if I'm not mistaken (since they made Front Mission games also). I do not think Media Vision has the staff/high end programmers for an HD graphic engine either.
We haven't seen a single JRPG for PS3 made by Japan Studio.
I can tell you why we haven't really easily.
-Rogue Galaxy was created to be the NEXT big RPG to rival Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. That was the goal of Level 5/SCEJ. It didn't exactly do well.
-Wild Arms sold well on PS1, continued seeing its sales go down on PS2 and XF sold really bad.
-Legaia 2 did not sell good compared to 1.
-PoPoLoCrois sales declined on PS2 and the ports on PSP barely sold.
-The newer Arc The Lad games on PS2 developed by Cattle Call bombed.
-Dark Cloud 2 did not sell anywhere near as much as the first one.
-Pretty much every new JRPG SCEJ published for PS2 all bombed (Okage The Shadow King, Dual Hearts, Tsunganai(sp), etc.).
-Pretty much every new JRPG SCEJ published for PSP bombed (Coded Soul, Brave Story, Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner, Blade Dancer, Jeanne D'Arc, etc.)
After getting burned out many types making a JRPG, this is why SCEJ does not make many of them internally. And don't forget that while WKC sold decently on PS3, its sequel sold worse and the PSP version really sold bad.
Believe me, I like the genre but I understand why they are cautious, since many of them require a higher budget and lots of staff.
Legend of Dragoon team is pretty much all gone working elsewhere around Japan.
Yep,this.SCEA and SCEE keep making acquisitions yet on the Japanese front it seems SCEJ are afraid to put their hands in their pockets.From Software maybe is too big but a studio like Mistwalker would have been a really good choice IMO as long as they gave them as much support as Nintendo gave to them (and Monolith Soft).
Mistwalker would never work for Sony.