UPDATE : US RELEASE CONFIRMED! One Piece announced for WiiU (and PS Vita/PS3)

[Mr Khan]

Kresnik said:

Mr Khan said:

I wouldn't say no to Nintendo moneyhatting a Tales Of port for the West, though. A few new Tales games wouldn't go amiss on my end.

Really, if you want to play Tales of games, you know what console you need to get.  That's not going to change; especially after the whole of a start of a generation of faffing around with consoles that weren't PlayStation and, generally, underperforming in sales.

 

OT: This is the bizzarest of bizzare decisions.  Vita has much more traction in Japan than abroad; WiiU is lacking traction everywhere.  I suppose I can excuse PS3 due to there being One Piece fans there already thanks to Pirate Warriors, but I don't see why it needs to be ported away from 3DS.  3DS is selling fine everywhere.

It makes the decision to ignore the Vita version of Pirate Warriors 2 even more bizzare, too.  You're weird, Namco.  You're weird and I don't really like you very much.

Oh, i know. My caring about Tales games is low enough that i don't really miss them (i'm a dirt-poor grad student anyway. I'm kind of grateful for Nintendo's somewhat poor lineup this year, as i'll still have the money to get everything important. If this were a more robust year like 2012 or 2010, i'd have to make some hard decisions), but it wouldn't hurt to have them either. Symphonia was fun.