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Farsala on 15 January 2019
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Acevil said:
Farsala said:

Good to know. But 3 consoles> 1. Also shows the deterioration of the XB audience, if the XB1 version sold that much less than the 360 version.

Last generation xbox I think was the healthiest console in UK, so I wouldn't call it the XB Audience when comparing Xbox 360 to Xbox One. However it really does feel like 2>1, which is fair enough. Xbox One was basically no show. 

It was healthy but not at the time of Tales of Vesperia release. If you really want to argue install base difference the XB1 in 2019 has a massive advantage to the 360 in 2009. Tales of Vesperia and many other games simply did much better on 360 (physically) than the XB1 despite an install base disadvantage.

Wyrdness said:
Farsala said:

This post is all sorts of wrong...

A remaster is a late port, they didn't change any gameplay or major plot points. UK is certainly not NS' weakest market, that would probably be the multitude of smaller countries in Eastern Europe, Middle Eastern Countries, or countries it hasn't even released in like China.

Tales has had recent and past success on the PS brand, but it has always been a multiplat franchise, especially in the west.

Here is each release and their original platform.

1995: SNES

1997: PS1

2000: PS1

2002: PS2

2003: Gamecube

2004: PS2

2005: PS2

2005: PS2

2007: DS

2008: 360

2008: DS

2009: Wii

2010-2016: PS3

And then the multitude of ports just like Vesperia.

No a remaster is as the name implies a sprucing up of a game for the modern era with out fully remaking the game an example is OOT on 3DS it's not a remake but has been touched up for today's standards you don't need to change plot points or gameplay, you're also reaching with the markets part as bringing up countries it's not out in is more than a reach because it would be like saying well it's not out in Antarctica so that's it's weakest region that type of argument goes into fallacy territory.

I think you should read what I said as I never implied that it hasn't been multi platform I said it's more associated with the PS brand which you even admitted yourself.

We can disagree on the first point, I personally think "remaster" is just marketing so that people are more obligated to buy a late port. Of course a late port will have easy improvements, but nothing substantial is changed.

Markets that matter, of course I won't bring in Antarctica. The Switch does comparably well in UK compared with many other markets though, where they have little presence.

PS4 hit 1m in Middle East, as well as 1m in China. Switch is ~0 China and a bit more in Middle East I assume.

PS4 did like 2-2.5m in UK with XB1 close behind in 1.75 full years, Switch is at 1.4m. Which is still quite good, hardly what I call "weakest market by a significant margin".

Just because it generally does well on PS consoles does not mean it is associated with the PS brand. A main new game might be associated with PS brand, but not a late port.