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Forums - Sony - Tales of Zestiria Won’t Come to PS4 (For Now); Tales Series Currently Only for PlayStation

Intrinsic on 18 September 2014

I will wait, after FF15 releases on the PS4, all these games will come to the PS4.

If there is one thing i hate bout jap devs, is that they don't understand the concept of making games to move hardware. They seem to want the hardware to magically move first then they make their games for it.



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Blood_Tears on 18 September 2014
XanderXT said:
The only Tales game I've played was Tales Of The World. Are they any good?


Depends on if you like JRPG's or not. They're an anime style rpg with some quirky banter but overall decent story and fun combat. The leveling system is usually always unique with each entry with a lot of content to explore. Can easily spend 70+ plus hours on one game. I got into the series last gen with Tales of Vesperia on 360 and Graces F on PS3. It's one of my favorite JRPG series now as well.



XanderXT on 18 September 2014
Blood_Tears said:
XanderXT said:
The only Tales game I've played was Tales Of The World. Are they any good?


Depends on if you like JRPG's or not. They're an anime style rpg with some quirky banter but overall decent story and fun combat. The leveling system is usually always unique with each entry with a lot of content to explore. Can easily spend 70+ plus hours on one game. I got into the series last gen with Tales of Vesperia on 360 and Graces F on PS3. It's one of my favorite JRPG series now as well.

I like JRPGs better than WRPGs, so I'll start playing. What can I play with an Emulator? 



Blood_Tears on 18 September 2014
XanderXT said:
Blood_Tears said:
XanderXT said:
The only Tales game I've played was Tales Of The World. Are they any good?


Depends on if you like JRPG's or not. They're an anime style rpg with some quirky banter but overall decent story and fun combat. The leveling system is usually always unique with each entry with a lot of content to explore. Can easily spend 70+ plus hours on one game. I got into the series last gen with Tales of Vesperia on 360 and Graces F on PS3. It's one of my favorite JRPG series now as well.

I like JRPGs better than WRPGs, so I'll start playing. What can I play with an Emulator? 

ahh emulator?   Not sure on that one. The last Tales game I played on an emulator was Phantasia for SNES. lol   Doing a quick google search and there appears to be a PS2 emulator online and a couple of Tales games for it.



deskpro2k3 on 18 September 2014

"Xbox exclusive experiment done with Tales of Vesperia won’t be repeated."

Wow, I've got to say, this guy knows where his fanbase are.



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OttoniBastos on 18 September 2014
Blood_Tears said:
"and the Xbox exclusive experiment done with Tales of Vesperia won’t be repeated."

Who would have thought that Namco of all 3rd parties would be the first to learn this lesson? I guess the Japanese players breaking their X360 discs in half and throwing them in the trash was a real eye opener for their PR department. There was a time that I thought SE learned this lesson but that was before the TR debacle.

I expect Tales of Xillia collection and Tales of Zestiria for PS4 in the future.

NobleTeam360 said:
Is it really that hard for Namco to release Tales of on both Xbox and PS? I mean it's not like they're a small publisher or anything so I don't see the problem here *rolls eyes at Namco and Tales of team*

It's not about being hard,it's about being profitable!

360 was the best selling Xbox console worldwide(including japan) and j-rpgs sold like shit most of the time.And even when it sold well,PS3 sold way better.

Xone is set to sell <100k ltd in japan(Unless some miracle happen),so japanese sales will be really bad.

The true is,Japanese people will buy a PS/Nintendo for japanese games.And if you are a Western gamer that like J-games,chances are you have a PS/Nintendo or plan to buy a PS/Nintendo.

In other words,there is not enough Japanese/weeaboos gamers as Xbox loyalists.It's a demographic problem that always existed but it's worse with Xone thanks to the mediocre global sales.

So why should they spent money,time and energy doing this port/more complex pipeline?



Sal.Paradise on 18 September 2014
deskpro2k3 said:
"Xbox exclusive experiment done with Tales of Vesperia won’t be repeated."

Wow, I've got to say, this guy knows where his fanbase are.


Took him long enough



NobleTeam360 on 18 September 2014
Soriku said:
NobleTeam360 said:
Is it really that hard for Namco to release Tales of on both Xbox and PS? I mean it's not like they're a small publisher or anything so I don't see the problem here *rolls eyes at Namco and Tales of team*


An Xbox version will sell nothing in Japan (their primary market) and won't sell much in the West. That's why they don't care.

What about the west? JRPGs sell pretty well here often more in the west than in Japan. ToV sold well on 360 so I don't get why they refuse to release another Tales of game for Xbox. No Japanese version for Xbox is fine, but I'd imagine they would sale decent enough on Xbox. 



NobleTeam360 on 18 September 2014
OttoniBastos said:
Blood_Tears said:
"and the Xbox exclusive experiment done with Tales of Vesperia won’t be repeated."

Who would have thought that Namco of all 3rd parties would be the first to learn this lesson? I guess the Japanese players breaking their X360 discs in half and throwing them in the trash was a real eye opener for their PR department. There was a time that I thought SE learned this lesson but that was before the TR debacle.

I expect Tales of Xillia collection and Tales of Zestiria for PS4 in the future.

NobleTeam360 said:
Is it really that hard for Namco to release Tales of on both Xbox and PS? I mean it's not like they're a small publisher or anything so I don't see the problem here *rolls eyes at Namco and Tales of team*

It's not about being hard,it's about being profitable!

360 was the best selling Xbox console worldwide(including japan) and j-rpgs sold like shit most of the time.And even when it sold well,PS3 sold way better.

Xone is set to sell <100k ltd in japan(Unless some miracle happen),so japanese sales will be really bad.

The true is,Japanese people will buy a PS/Nintendo for japanese games.And if you are a Western gamer that like J-games,chances are you have a PS/Nintendo or plan to buy a PS/Nintendo.

In other words,there is not enough Japanese/weeaboos gamers as Xbox loyalists.It's a demographic problem that always existed but it's worse with Xone thanks to the mediocre global sales.

So why should they spent money,time and energy doing this port/more complex pipeline?

Yeah I get not releasing it on the Xbone as it will do terrible in Japan. Tales of though is still on the 7th gen hardware where 360 has a sizeable userbase even in Japan, and I don't even care if they release it on Xbox in Japan I just want it in the west on Xbox.  Tales of Vesperia sold 290k on 360 in N. America and 190k in Europe. Pretty good numbers for a small niche game like Tales of if you ask me. 



Munkeh111 on 18 September 2014

Are these developers trying to kill off console jRPGs in the West?

Has there been a single jRPG released on PS4/Xbox One? It's just pathetic.

There's definitely a market there, but they seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot