Namco lies about why Tales of Graces isn't coming to the Wii in the West

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trestres said:

Not that we didn't know about it. The moment they said that Tales of graces F was getting localized, it was just too obvious. No way a third party company will be spending resources on a Wii game, when not either the HW manufacturer things it's worthwile. Nintendo themselves are setting the example that it's useless to make a core game. This is a great strategy as we get closer to the Wii U launch, I mean devs will be thrilled to launch or make core games for a console that apparently can't sell enough copies of a game on a 40+ million userbase. I'm sure they will chose Wii U over 360/HD...

This is true, but I think most people would not have assumed there was going to be a Wii version if Namco hadn't been so unclear about the platform(s) the game was coming to in the west. I don't remember the exact quote, but I do remember it gave the strong impression that ToG/F was releasing on more than one platform, and from there people jumped to the (not totally unreasonable) conclusion the other platform would be Wii. Of course, there could still be a Wii U or PSVita version being planned that we don't know of, but at the moment it seems like PS3 is the only system to get the game in the west, which makes Namco's initial statements seem rather weird...