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5pb - 'XBLA rejected Ketsui and Dodonpachi'
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"God's Beard!"
Member
WHAT THE FUCKING HELL MICROSOFT FUCK YOU UP YOUR FUCKING ASSES
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
So doesn't this mean they're turning them into more robust retail products anyways?
"God's Beard!"
Member
BenjaminBirdie said:
which also means like no chance of an american release
Except nobody in Japan owns a 360, and just about all Japanese releases of Xbox 360 titles are region-locked. Also they're probably each going to cost a lot more than 800 pts a piece as a retail product.BenjaminBirdie said:
Edit: Also, have you seen some of the crap they do approve for XBLA? And they're blocking arcade-perfect ports of games that are actually good, if niche? Come the fuck on, guys!
Skiptastic
Member
God's Beard said:
That's it. If I need to raise hell in Redmond, even though I'm in Indianapolis, I will do so. This is fucking unbelievable. "Oh, we don't like arcade reduxes"? WHAT THE FUCK WAS TURTLES 1989? YOU FUCKERS. GIVE ME DODONPACHI HD XBLA. NOW.
phalestine
aka iby.h
Shard said:
it would most likely be cheaper if it was a XBLA title.
Shard said:
They said they wanted to throw lots of arcade titles up. When that failed, they said they converted two of those projects to retail. So the big deal is, for now at least, they've gone from "lots" to "two" and there's at least a chance some (many?) others won't materialize.
Zombie James
Banned
WHAT?! REJECTED DODONPACHI?!!! Holy fuck, of all the arcade games to take a pass on.
Shard said:
everyone who doesn't own a japanese 360 won't get to play these.
and the excuse is total bullshit. We got two years worth of retro, one playthrough for nostalgia trash like TMNT and Tapper, but now good arcade games are getting rejected.
It's like there's a conspiracy preventing Cave shooters from releasing in the U.S.
rollingstart
Banned
sp0rsk said:
you buy the game because it will be awesome and not worry about the rest.
and if this game is region locked, I will be angry.
Pachael said:
does Wiiware have size limits?
miyamotofreak
Banned
So make it for PSN then. There's no content on PSN anyway to compete with.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
What an absolutely fantastic fuckup.
Interestingly enough it seems 5pb didn't even bother with PSN and just went straight to doing a 360 retail release.
miyamotofreak said:So make it for PSN then. There's no content on PSN anyway to compete with.
Interestingly enough it seems 5pb didn't even bother with PSN and just went straight to doing a 360 retail release.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Japanese support of any kind should not be ignored especially in the light of how awful the platform fares there.
Mr. Pointy
Member
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Aaaaaaaand I'm spent.God's Beard said:
The sad thing is that they're probably cutting down arcade ports because we complained. A few games get rejected because they're cutting back and we complain again :lol
But honestly, how can they not see we aren't complaining about retro titles, we're complaining about retro titles that SUCK.
But honestly, how can they not see we aren't complaining about retro titles, we're complaining about retro titles that SUCK.
Haeleos
Member
This news coupled with the fact there are some weeks that go by that Microsoft doesn't have a new game for XBLA is utterly FUBAR.
I WILL be buying this if it comes to North America.
I will NOT be buying Brain Challenge or Wits and Wagers.
You can only vote with your dollars since the people in charge of XBLA don't seem to have any conception as to what people using the service are looking for.
I WILL be buying this if it comes to North America.
I will NOT be buying Brain Challenge or Wits and Wagers.
You can only vote with your dollars since the people in charge of XBLA don't seem to have any conception as to what people using the service are looking for.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
MightyHedgehog said:
To be fair having a crapload of 2D shooters isn't going to help the 360 much...if at all.
What can be said? It's a niche genre, might as well leave it on a niche system, the hardcore fans will buy it all the same.
Hopefully somebody with deep pockets and a head with no brain in it decides to start publishing all of these games in the US but it's not looking very likely at all. I mean hell Shiki 3 is seeing a US Wii release but a 360 version is nowhere to be seen....not a good sign.
fuck microsoft -- their xbla 'quality assurance' is getting as bad as scea's bullshit. this is exactly why we don't want suits at console manufacturers making qualitative judgments as to what should and shouldn't be released. nintendo seems to have adopted a laissez faire approach, but they've got worthless hardware that nobody wants to work on, so the only concrete results are shovelware
meanwhile i'm stuck buying a japanese 360...UNLESS 5pb can somehow release these games without region coding
meanwhile i'm stuck buying a japanese 360...UNLESS 5pb can somehow release these games without region coding
bobbyconover
Member
This is maddening. Though I guess buying a Japanese 360 specifically to play Ketsui beats having to pay $800+ for the arcade PCB, which is currently the only other way to play it.
Red Blaster
Member
This console cycle will be known as the "head-up-your-ass" generation.
Technosteve
Banned
i've never played a donpachi game but i have played Ikaruga on dreamcast. Why would M$ want japanese centric arcade games with dated garphics in a an extremely niche market that only appeared in japan and never heard of in the us on xbox live? Unless it was for the japanese market and only for the japanese market.
MightyHedgehog
Member
The Saturn and Dreamcast found minor but still appreciable worth to a number of folks there (and abroad) after their overall importance was sealed relative to the competition. Turning the X360 into a platform for hardcore genres can't hurt them there, I think.PepsimanVsJoe said:
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Technosteve said:
Ignored.
MightyHedgehog said:
I can see the 360 joining the Saturn and Dreamcast at the rate Microsoft is going...
Haeleos said:
Okay, stop right there, it has been a pretty miserable March both in terms of games released and overall news but here is the thing the XBLA had an incredible run for the previous three months and April is going to be a return to form content wise. Moreover your line of logic here is faulty, what GAF is willing to buy and the public at large is willing to buy are vastly different thing. Brain Challenge while being not to good has been selling quite well for an XBLA title, since it appeals greatly to the casual segment, so obviously for better or worse, Mircosoft does have an idea of what people are looking for. Lastly, we don't even know if Wits and Wagers is going to be terrible or not, too soon to judge that game.