PepsimanVsJoe
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Shumups? Good Lord that's just retarded.
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Several Tales games revealed in Jump
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Stumpokapow
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miladesn said:
FFXIII is the most tilted PS3:360 game of all time and it's got a 2:1 sales ratio.
Tales fans presumably already have 360s from Tales of Vesperia; there's no particular reason to conceive of Tales so-far as a "Sony franchise" like people would have with Final Fantasy. Why would it be "even worse" with Tales?
So, couldn't we conclude that a 360 version would at worse be 33% of the sales and at best more than 50%?
SEGA is targeting only Japan with Yakuza, something that comes through in both the speed and quality of the localizations and the general uncertainty with Yakuza 3 being localized at all, so you're making duckroll's point for him
Again, disproportionately Japanese, and this time with the benefit of being an ultra-niche publisher who makes ultra-niche titles. At that kind of volume, you could easily advocate developing for literally any single platform. This isn't what Namco is going for with Tales.
well, I think Tales is in the same league as Yakuza right now, Yakuza actually sells better in Japan. Tales is not really a well-known popular franchise anymore (was it ever, aside from one game?), they are not going to sell millions with these, single platform should be enough.Stumpokapow said:
BETA version confirmed, funny it was buggy too :lol .Bebpo said:
InfiniteNine
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One would hope so.ULTROS! said:
Dedication Through Light
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For release in 2013 here? aye? thats far awayULTROS! said:
Jeels said:
Yeah :lol
I still can't believe there were 2 "flagship" titles on DS ( Tales of the Tempest being ...well..Tales of the Tempest), ToV being time exclusive and at last Graces until they came to this conclusion.
To the US/European situation: I realized t's not like we ever got that many Tales games to begin with- the complaints were always the same ( ToD2, ToR and ToD remake on ps2 for example)-back then I was very motivated to play them with walktroughs but I'm not that interested anymore, so I gues that's bye bye Tales of for me :lol
Crimson-Legend
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So they finally realize which platform sells JRPGs?
Fimbulvetr
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duckroll said:
Or Tales of Screw the Westia
Can't say I wasn't expecting that. They have to recoup that initial investment from Graces, and I doubt a Japan only release helped them too much.
I seriously wonder why they are so reluctant to bring the series over, is it because they don't wanna over expose the franchise like they do in Japan? It still doesn't explain why it doesn't have any exposure at all :lol . Oh well.
What numbers do you guys think we're gonna see from this port? 200-300k? Or over the 400 barrier?
I seriously wonder why they are so reluctant to bring the series over, is it because they don't wanna over expose the franchise like they do in Japan? It still doesn't explain why it doesn't have any exposure at all :lol . Oh well.
What numbers do you guys think we're gonna see from this port? 200-300k? Or over the 400 barrier?
Dedication Through Light
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If the sales arent selling that much, or even being praised that highly by fans, then why even localize it in the first place. The only one that seemed to be a full scale critical success was Vesperia, so I dont get people crying for graces and such, The last one that wasnt vesperia Symphonia 2, wasnt even anything to write home about.
Crimson-Legend
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Please localize
PepsimanVsJoe
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I dunno about that.
At this time the 360 in Japan is at or around the level of the Dreamcast. I'm talking that one point where a handful of niche developers were racing to release the "Last Dreamcast Game Ever".
At this time the 360 in Japan is at or around the level of the Dreamcast. I'm talking that one point where a handful of niche developers were racing to release the "Last Dreamcast Game Ever".
lol @ amount of bitterness in this thread.
this is great news IMO, stop QQing about you might not be able to play it because of language barrier, if you really want to play. learn japanese!
I just started ToG again for recording, good thing this news came out so I stopped.
TBH i don't want another TOV, they did the previous one masterfully and it ended. Unless they are takling about an entirely different story line in a somewhat related TOV universe, not interested other wise ;/
this is great news IMO, stop QQing about you might not be able to play it because of language barrier, if you really want to play. learn japanese!
I just started ToG again for recording, good thing this news came out so I stopped.
TBH i don't want another TOV, they did the previous one masterfully and it ended. Unless they are takling about an entirely different story line in a somewhat related TOV universe, not interested other wise ;/
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if the game that Team Vespiria does comes stateside, it's a day zero purchase.
PepsimanVsJoe
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BTw here's an obligatory: "Namco sucks this gen" post from yours truly.
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I thought it was bad before that N/B can only do fighting games and Tales games but now we're looking at Cross-over fighting games and sequels to Cross-over Tales games.
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I thought it was bad before that N/B can only do fighting games and Tales games but now we're looking at Cross-over fighting games and sequels to Cross-over Tales games.
rykomatsu said:
that's what i meant. make it completely unrelated to the first ToV story (character and timeline wise). Maybe just a loose end tied together some where by some insignificant things.
ZealousD said:
wait what? one of the hardest languages in the world? where's this lol coming from. oh, and i did it. plenty others have done the same thing also.
SatelliteOfLove
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Kagari said:
Always been under the impression after that and Blue Dragon; capture a chunk of the PS2's powerbase going into the next generation, ya know? Le sigh...
PepsimanVsJoe
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A fat lot of good all that work did Microsoft. If anything they've become less relevant to Japan than they were during the Xbox 1 period. At least that system got a number of unique exclusives that really took advantage of the hardware. At this point unless it looks like the kind of game that could sell outside Japan it won't be seeing the 360 and even then it'll most likely be multi-platform. All of the exclusives are tied to the most niche of niche genres and they're not going anywhere but otherwise...yeah
It's going to take a miracle to sell Japan on the 720 or whatever the hell Xbox3 is called.
It's going to take a miracle to sell Japan on the 720 or whatever the hell Xbox3 is called.
Paracelsus
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rykomatsu said:PS3 beta tests
360 gets the full version this time?
Wow, you just had to read the full post and you did not.
Both average at about 205-210k, which makes ToV PS3 result even more worth mentioning, being a port that outsold two first major releases 1.5:1.
Given the damage suffered this "round", you've gotta wonder whether there will be a next gen Tales period.
Kirashi said:
For somebody who's a native English speaker, Japanese is incredibly difficult to learn. They're fundamentally different languages. It's not like it takes a weekend or something, so telling somebody to spend the massive time requirement to learn it just so they can play a video game is absurd.
ZealousD said:
Honestly, it depends how much of the experience you want to have. If I wanted to play a Tales game solely for the gameplay, the barrier isn't too big actually. Of course, with the aid of a friendly guide and watching a few videos, it makes it possible. But if I wanted to appreciate and understand the dialogue and story? Got to hit the books for that.
It would take days to recognize kana and it would be enough if my goal was playing it strictly for the gameplay, but would I have even a rough rudimentary understanding of the language? Nope. That would take months to actually learn it. Years if I want to learn the language competently.
It really is troublesome though, but I understand where you might be coming from. It's just how much you want to play a game I guess.
rykomatsu
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Paracelsus said:
Yeah, except you mentioned it was an impossibility when NBGI hasn't exactly been faithful to one console or another throughout its history. All signs are pointing towards what you said, but until I see it (or lack thereof I suppose in this case) I won't believe it.