Best console digital RPG lineup

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jarrod on 30 March 2010

Kasz216 said:

jarrod said:

Xoj said:

jarrod said:

Xoj said:

Soriku said:
PS3/Wii. Wii has the Mario RPGs, FF, Phantasy Star, Breath of Fire, Ogre Battle, etc. (don't really count Zelda as an RPG) while PS3 has FF VII, FF VIII, IX in the future and hopefully they put Xenogears and Vagrant Story on NA PSN.

sony also have breath of fire from :p.

BOF3/4 aren't on PSN, even in Japan.

Although weirdly, BOF1 isn't on VC anywhere either. :/

they will be added later according to capcom <.<.

Sven said he's trying to get them on there, but no promises. I wouldn't hold out personally, all Capcom's managed to get on (US) PSN is SFA1-2. :/

I don't get it... why is it hard to get games out on VC and PSN. Shouldn't it just be the company saying "Hey Nintendo/Sony... we want this on the VC."

Sony/Nintendo "Ok."

The way the digital services work, Nintendo/Sony license all 3rd party games, do the emulation/bug-testing/ratings/digital manuals inhouse and release them themselves. In essence, all games on the Virtual Console (NES/SNES/N64) and PS Classics (PS1) are 1st party. The only ones that aren't are actual 3rd party platforms, which are done through their respective owners or licensors. It gets confusing though...

On VC that's Hudson (TG16/CD), Sega (SMS/Genesis), D4 (NeoGeo) and Commodore (C64). These companies also license all the 3rd party games on their platforms, and handle the work and releases themselves, similar to Nintendo and Sony for their platforms. MSX is a more open format, and so far two companies have sublicensed it for VC releases themselves, D4 and Konami. On VC Arcade, it's more a real 3rd party effort and companies do their own games, and it's been Namco Bandai, Sega, Tecmo, Taito and Hamster (licensing others properties) so far.

On PSN so far there's just Hudson with TG16. But there's been rumors of more happening, like Sega with Dreamcast.

A side not on Capcom, Sven wanted to get the original NES Bionic Commando on VC in time for Rearmed's launch. Nintendo was like "lol f-u, NEVAR", since they were not getting any piece of the real franchise revival. On the other hand, Nintendo was more than happy to start rolling out MM1-3 around MM9, and now MM4-6 around MM10. Basically, Nintendo and Sony are the gatekeepers here.

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Kasz216 on 30 March 2010

So in otherwords... in order to be huge control freaks, they screwed up a system that should just work like steam.

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Khuutra on 30 March 2010

Kasz216 said:
So in otherwords... in order to be huge control freaks, they screwed up a system that should just work like steam.

Hey we still got Ogre Battle and Ogre Battle 64, I consider that a win.

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jarrod on 30 March 2010

Kasz216 said:
So in otherwords... in order to be huge control freaks, they screwed up a system that should just work like steam.

Sort of. For Sony the process is even more fractured since SCEJ, SCEA and SCEE are each set up more as independent fiefdoms, and have to sublicense each other's games on top of that. This is why when someone submits a PSN game for QA, they need to submit to each region (basically 3 times), while on XBLA/WiiWare just one submission works worldwide.