Indeed I'd love for them to have more budget but I'd infinately prefer they keep existing over being given a larger budget only to not meet expectations and the series goes mobile or is canned over it.
I don't think it's just a matter of budget, though. This sort of thing is harder to quantify, of course, but I get the feeling that Tales games these days suffer from a lack of vision behind them. I've played most of the older Tales games and even though they were on older hardware and the battle systems were a bit rough, the games gave me the sense that they were really trying to break new ground.
The newer games give me the sense that they're just rushing a game out to meet some release date and some target sales number (like 300k first week sales in Japan). They introduce new mechanics and elements to the games, but I don't feel like they're trying to break new ground or do anything really interesting. It feels more like a checklist of things to add to a new Tales game. Kamui, for one, seems to be a rather uninspired new gimmick overall. They could have done more with it, I feel, but... they didn't.
"Vision" is a difficult thing to define, though, so I can really only say it's based on a gut feeling sort of thing, having played most of the mothership titles in the series.
((( )....is Zestiria any good comparing among all the PS3 games (including Vesperia)?
