Which would be the better move for Xenosaga HD?

[TheSpindler]

bigtakilla said:

TheSpindler said:

bunchanumbers said:

TheSpindler said:

fleischr said:
WHY NOT BOTH?

The better question is, "why bother?"  Apart from a couple fans wanting the games to be in HD, why would Bandai Namco remake or remaster these days?  The environment right now is toxic for JRPGs in the west(not named FF), and consoles in Japan are flopping all over the place.

And even back in their heyday these games weren't exactly lighting up the charts and I think recently he asked for people to show they wanted to buy it in Japan and that didn't go well or did it?  BN said they'd want the original team to be involved, and I can't see that happening unless it's on Wii U as well.

Waste of money i'd say.

It would be in line with Nintendo's Spinoff strategy. Monolith will already have most of the tools together with the completion of Xenoblade X. All Namco Bandai has to do is sign off on the deal, and Nintendo and Wii U get a jrpg trilogy it desperately needs. The best part is that it shouldn't be a long wait after the announcement.

Xenosaga isn't really like Xenoblade though, they share the same DNA but they are very much different.  I doubt Xenoblade CX will be much of a success, but I have a feeling that game will be smartly budgeted, so it'll more than likely meet Nintendo's sales expectations, yet never be a mjor disappointment or breakout hit.

Also, I don't think Nintendo, or for that matter Sony or Microsoft need any sort of JPRG trilogy.  Xenosaga wouldn't even count as a spinoff, and I'm not sure why Nintendo would fund or use one of their more prominent studios to do an HD remake when they could be working on their own games or helping Nintendo's first party studios.

Even for exclusivity sake.  This Xenosaga trilogy seems more like a passion project than any sort of sound financial decision.  Actually, I don't even think the trilogy was that critically appraised, I remember reviews being very uneven.

Neither is any Final Fantasy really like the other, but people still buy it in mass because of the string of good ones from VI-X (and I'll add IV as well). What it does is further solidify if you want the Xeno experience, get a Wii U.

Because it would be a low cost risk way of getting better relations with Bamco (they have arleady worked with them on Tekken Tag 2 and Super Smash Bros). Nintendo wants some third party games, Bandai wants to make Xenosaga, everyone wins.

Maybe Monolith wants another crack at it. It is their game after all.

Well FF is a different case though, it is very much THE biggest JRPG in gaming and historically each entry usually is differnet from the last.  You're talking about a trio of games with set themes and battle system and another different series sharing some themese and entirely different battle system.  And FFXV is the only mainline FF to have a battle system seemingly so different from the main series, and that's partially due to it originally being a spin-off.  Though, haha Xenosaga was supposed to be a FF game iirc.

People can already get the :"Xeno experience" on a Wii U though as it's backwards compataible.  And they acan aready get a different "Xeno experience" on a PS2.  I don't see the point of getting a complete "Xeno experience" on one system. As in justify the costs and effort it would involve.  Besides, the "Xeno Experience" would somehow have to include the DS games.

They already have a good working relationship with Namco Bandai with Xeno collection.  THey have collaborated many times in the past and even nnow.  they are cuurently working on one of  Nintendo's most prominent franchises, Smash bros and previously MK8(or so I heard, nvm just checked the wiki, they actually helped).

"Bandai wants to make Xenosaga, everyone wins."

One guy from Bandai Namco wants to make the games.  Bandai Namco just wants to make money.

"Maybe Monolith wants another crack at it. It is their game after all."

Maybe, I haven't heard anything from them about it, and looking at how the guy behind the series talks, it doesn't seem like he wants to revisit old games.  He seems to want to continually outdo and build on what was before.  This is what I get from the interviews anyway.  He doesn't even think the original Xenoblade is all that great.

Outside all of that though, what benefits would the game serve for the gamepad?  Because at this point, it makes more sense for Bandai Namco to put their other series on Wii U, Baten kaitos.  It was on the GC, would benefit from Gamepad integration, and since the Wii U has some GC roots, I don't think the HD remake would be that taxing, and the studio is already with them.