| Feniris said: Outside of PS3 tales fans, who cares? It's not as if this is a bad or even underhanded thing. It's just is. But, her example of Heavy Rain was off, because Sony published it as opposed to the happenstance with Tales of Vesperia. |
I would say it is underhanded, especially compared to something like Heavy Rain.
When Sony or Microsoft publishes a title, you know from the get go that that title will be permanently exclusive to their platform. When they simply toss some money a company's way behind the scenes, it leaves people interested in that game guessing as to what platforms it will REALLY come out on, and when it might be hitting those platforms.
Also, in Heavy Rain's case it was a new IP with no real following pre-release. In the case of Tales, you have a situation where any Tales fan now has to own multiple consoles to keep up with the franchise, DESPITE each game having been developed for multiple consoles. The Japanese Tales fan is the only fan that can get all three games on one console, and even then that's only if they passed on the games when they were first released.
All three games should've been released on all three platforms, or at the very least all on one platform. Not doing so is very underhanded, as all it does is screw the fanbase in order to help each console manufacturer.
