Shadowblind said:
darkknightkryta said:
Shadowblind said:
darkknightkryta said:
Just throwing this out there, but isn't the current problem right now in Japan that the major publishers outside of Capcom failed to put games on the Wii or PS3 and made a bunch of exclusives (timed or otherwise) on the 360 only? I mean from before Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean 4, Trusty Bell (U.S. name escapes me right now), Ace Combat 5, all on the 360? Why? What good did that do Namco and Square? Square single handedly killed Star Ocean with that timed exclusive on the 360. I mean I'm not saying they shouldn't have been on the 360 but there's no reason a PS3 version should not have been made, get your sales in Japan first and then worry about the rest of the world. Like, not disagreeing with you cause Wada probably believes this, but Japan's console state is all his and Namco's fault if you ask me.
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I'm not sure about Namco, since the combined sales of Tales of Vesperia are some of the highest in the Tales series. (870,000; higher then Abyss, Graces, Hearts, Destiny, Legendia, Eternia, and . . . well, actually pretty much every Tales besides Symphonia)
My beef with SE and Namco this gen is that Ace Combat, Eternal Sonata, Star Ocean 4, The Last Remnant, and Infinite Undiscvoery were all miserably decent games. I don't know if it's the 360's fault they sold so bad, or simply because they just aren't that good. Eternal Sonata especially . . . ugh. Terrible.
Tales of Vesperia was better then all of them combined, and although it sold better then most JRPGs this gen, it didn't get all the sales it deserved, in my opinion. Also Namco: I know you don't think the Tales of series will sell over here in the West but . . . come on-- we really want Graces over here.
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Yes Vesparia's sales are higher yes, but how much higher would it have been if they had the PS3 version ready alongside the 360 version? Probably a lot higher, I'd wager their PS3 sales would have been doubled what they were. Though it could easily not have been. Still I kinda hope what that artist said was a true story and they got screwed over with their exclusive deal with MS.
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Here I'd have to disagree with you, if for no other reason then the fact that Tales of Graces, which actually got marginally better scores then Vesperia sold only 220,000 throughout its entire life, and was on the highest selling home console in Japan at the time. Also, word of mouth about Vesperia was apparently very strong; at least, critical word of mouth was.
Granted, though, my disagreeing with you is of a very thin nature-- I only disagree that it would have sold twice it's current amount, since that would make it roughly 1.6 mil if you meant worldwide, or over 1.2 mil(rounded) if you just included Japan PS3 sales. Thats more then any Tales game has ever sold, and while it'd be awesome, spectacular, incredible, and a large list of other positive adjectives if sales had been that high, it'd be extremely unlikely.
I'm not familiar with the artist story, so I can't comment on it. Can you link me to it?
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