| brendude13 said: Nevermind. The employee that said it apologised and said it wasn't true. Still, it doesn't make any sense not to bring it over. Graces F and Symphonia are getting ported over, so it's not a new case of wanting to focus on new projects only. The porting for Vesperia has already been done, and so has the localisation, it just needs publishing. I'd expect Vesperia to be just as popular as the other releases. Makes absolutely no sense at all. |
From what Hideo Baba says they just didnt have the resources to do it. Its been highly requested though, and i believe they have resources now that they rebounded.
| NobleTeam360 said: How did Vesperia bomb? It sold 650k on 360. |
Remeber this was at the beggining of the gen. Tools had to be developed. The game sold only 190k in Japan wich is a disaster. First week sales were 8k for europe and below 50k for the US and 106k Japan. The rest probably came from discounted sales for the most part. It was a disaster.
Compare with graces f wich was a port of the Wii game: 218k Japan 15k europe and 127k US (first week). A port did twice as much. Xillia already has US pre-orders of above 128k and did 500k in Japan first week.
I guess its clear now why Vesperia was a failure commercially, even though it was the best Tales title so far (imo and i havent played graces yet). I suppose it helped the word of mouth for future titles though.
