Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge Kasumi DLC now available

[Mr Khan]

ryuzaki57 said:

Mr Khan said:

ryuzaki57 said:

Mr Khan said:

ryuzaki57 said:

This is earlier than expected. Nintendo and Tecmo must be desperate to sell WiiUs and some more copies of the game, or is it just to accelerate the Ninja Gaiden Sigma 3 announcement? Anyway, I cannot accept such contempt towards PS360 owners and have already expressed my displeasure at the news (politely of course).

@TeamNINJAStudio #PS3 と #xbox360 を持っている #NinjaGaiden ファンへプレゼントを贈ってくれないと解釈することになります. 不親切です．

— Ryuzaki57🈲 (@Ryuz4ki57) December 25, 2012

Was that first part really necessary? How would this ever sell a Wii U?

If Razor's Edge and this unprecedented addition of Kasumi is not aimed at lifting WiiU sales, why in the hell is that not available on PS360 as well?

It's more a general goodwill move towards the hardcore than a direct bid to sell Wii Us. Really it was the "desperate" line that bothered me.

But Nintendo has at least partial control over Razor's Edge, so it is likely that none of this stuff will go to PS360 ever (assuming Sigma 3 does get made, they'll have to use someone else, or Team Ninja will legally have to recode kasumi from scratch)

Surely a goodwill move for Nintendo but incredible badwill on Tecmo's side as an increasing number of PS3/360 owners voice their concern of being ignored like this. Let's remember they do have a NGS2+ and a DOA5+ to sell and Vita owners are likely to possess  PS3. Try to sell ports to an angried fanbase can be tricky. For much as we know, they could very well add Kasumi to NGS2+ but that doesn't seem to be on the agenda whereas NIntendo has no control over this particular game. Team Ninja and Tecmo just allied themselves with Nintendo against their current fanbase and that's a very hazardous thing to do.

Btw Tecmo is still editing NG3RE in Japan so nothing prevents us to get at least the Japanese version (like Tales of Vesperia). But I do expect them to recode from scratch if needed, which would be the least they could do after turning their back at us like that.

I guess it comes down to what kind of treatment you're used to. As a Nintendo fan, i find your distress about something as simple as a DLC character (that you can't even really use until you beat the game anyway) odd. Sometimes they want to incentivize one version of the game over another; simple.