| ResiRiley said: !. Name any other major RPG that will launch around the time of ToS. Oh, and for the record, I happen to like FF spin offs such as Crystal Chronicles and am looking forword to Crystal Chronicles Wii and DS, as well as Final Fantasy XII DS. If no one cared about spin offs, no one would buy them, and no one, especially Square, would continue to make them, so speak for yourself. 2. I think if Symphonia would have came out exclusively for PS2 in the US it would have performed as poorly as the other Tales games for the system, but Symphonia was released to an audience that was starved for a great RPG ( a la Wii). Now that the game has a sizeable following, I think it can eclipse the original and bring in new fans as well. It was no fluke at all |
1. RK has no definitive date outside of Spring 2008 for Japan. The Wii 2008 lineup is almost a mystery so it's silly to assume that nothing else will be there weeks before or afterwards. Not only that but you keep using Square and Final Fantasy to validate Tales. Different series, different company. FF spinoffs have no impact on Tales spinoffs, especially since they are treated differently by their developers.
2. Of course it was a fluke. It was a one time success story so far. Baten Kaitos didn't get nearly the same treatment, yet with this supposed explanation that lack of RPGs = instant success you'd think it would. That, and I find it a bit hard to believe that someone honestly thinks a spinoff with half the production values and development time of Symphonia and highly experimental gameplay additions (monster breeding) is somehow going to "eclipse" it. People are expecting a little bit more than this game was intended to give.
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