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Dallinor on 26 June 2008
Riachu said:
Dallinor said:

How long has this game been in development?

It was announced back in 2006.

But, on wikipedia it says this:

"Level-5 plans to make White Knight Chronicles a 50-60 hour game, a length Akihiro Hino considers to be a full length RPG, going against the pressure to make White Knight Chronicles a launch title and cutting the story short."

And in 2006 IGN made this remark:

"The Tokyo Game Show [06'] will offer our first look at White Knight Story, which despite its recent unveiling, seems to be far along in development."

By it's release, I'd say the title will have taken close to 3 years to produce.

more like 3.5 to 4 years

 

 

Possibly. I tend to be slighty on the conservative side when making any sort of numerical assumption.

Still, that's a long development time for a game (especially a new IP). I hope all the extra man hours were used to shape this game into one of the first true RPG masterpieces of this gen.

 



 

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Dallinor on 26 June 2008
*bleu-ocelot* said:
Riachu said:
*bleu-ocelot* said:
Dallinor said:

How long has this game been in development?

It was announced back in 2006.

But, on wikipedia it says this:

"Level-5 plans to make White Knight Chronicles a 50-60 hour game, a length Akihiro Hino considers to be a full length RPG, going against the pressure to make White Knight Chronicles a launch title and cutting the story short."

And in 2006 IGN made this remark:

"The Tokyo Game Show [06'] will offer our first look at White Knight Story, which despite its recent unveiling, seems to be far along in development."

By it's release, I'd say the title will have taken close to 3 years to produce.

 

But remember Level-5 also is working on DQIX,and other games.

Every Level 5 game in development other than WKC are handheld games.  Handheld games take significantly less than to develop than console games and require less people to develop.

 

 

True,but isn't Level-5 a small development studio?

Nope, as of 2007 they had over 150 employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_5

Also interesting to note from the same page:

"The bulk of the staff however, including the chief designers, artists and Lead Director Yasuhiro Akasaka, are currently working on the company's PlayStation 3 RPG effort".

 



 

Riachu on 26 June 2008
Dallinor said:
Riachu said:
Dallinor said:

How long has this game been in development?

It was announced back in 2006.

But, on wikipedia it says this:

"Level-5 plans to make White Knight Chronicles a 50-60 hour game, a length Akihiro Hino considers to be a full length RPG, going against the pressure to make White Knight Chronicles a launch title and cutting the story short."

And in 2006 IGN made this remark:

"The Tokyo Game Show [06'] will offer our first look at White Knight Story, which despite its recent unveiling, seems to be far along in development."

By it's release, I'd say the title will have taken close to 3 years to produce.

more like 3.5 to 4 years

 

 

Possibly. I tend to be slighty on the conservative side when making any sort of numerical assumption.

Still, that's a long development time for a game (especially a new IP). I hope all the extra man hours were used to shape this game into one of the first true RPG masterpieces of this gen.

 

3.5 to 4 years of development time is only slightly longer than average for an RPG.   The game will probably get a  90%+ on both gamerankings and metacritic if they used the development time for their advantage

 



 

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outlawauron on 26 June 2008

Very nice information digging guys. This should be a good 500k RPG that should come close to Lost Odyssey.



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Riachu on 26 June 2008
outlawauron said:
Very nice information digging guys. This should be a good 500k RPG that should come close to Lost Odyssey.

LO was great but were you really that wowed by it.  WKC will probably be even better than LO if Level 5 give it the proper polish that LO didn't get

 



 

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*bleu-ocelot* on 26 June 2008
outlawauron said:
Very nice information digging guys. This should be a good 500k RPG that should come close to Lost Odyssey.

Japan alone will be about 500k.This game is also highly anticipated.So I think it can sell 1.7mil or higher,easily.

Riachu on 26 June 2008
Soriku said:
*bleu-ocelot* said:
outlawauron said:
Very nice information digging guys. This should be a good 500k RPG that should come close to Lost Odyssey.

 

Japan alone will be about 500k.This game is also highly anticipated.So I think it can sell 1.7mil or higher,easily.


Uh...as far as I know, no Level 5 game has reached 500k in Japan (unless it was published by SE, like DQ) so I doubt thta'll be the case on the PS3.

Ever heard of Professor Layton?  Many Level 5 games never made it to 500K in Japan due to circumstances i.e. Japanese gamers are more interested in playing established series than new IPs.  WKC could still do 500K in Japan as long as they market it enough and there aren't any other RPGs stealing its thunder(which I seriously doubt will happen unless it is released close to FFXIII)

 



 

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Riachu on 26 June 2008
Soriku said:
Riachu said:
Soriku said:
*bleu-ocelot* said:
outlawauron said:
Very nice information digging guys. This should be a good 500k RPG that should come close to Lost Odyssey.

 

Japan alone will be about 500k.This game is also highly anticipated.So I think it can sell 1.7mil or higher,easily.


Uh...as far as I know, no Level 5 game has reached 500k in Japan (unless it was published by SE, like DQ) so I doubt thta'll be the case on the PS3.

Ever heard of Professor Layton? Many Level 5 games never made it to 500K in Japan due to circumstances i.e. Japanese gamers are more interested in playing established series than new IPs. WKC could still do 500K in Japan as long as they market it enough and there aren't any other RPGs stealing its thunder(which I seriously doubt will happen unless it is released close to FFXIII)

 


Hmm...I forgot about that. But none of Level 5's full-blown RPGs have actually reached 500k. And the PS3 isn't even CLOSE to selling as much SW as the DS.

There are multiple reasons why Level 5's full blown RPGs haven't sold 500K in Japan, other than DQVIII anyway.  PS3 SW sales will pick up once more games come out including WKC

 



 

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pearljammer on 26 June 2008

I love everything Level 5 touches. This is huge for me, can not wait!



FilaBrasileiro on 27 June 2008

I can't help but imagine this schedule of JRPGs for the PS3 in Japan this year:


September - Eternal Sonata
October - Cross Edge
November - WKC
December - FFXIII

That would definitely be enough to combat ToV, IU and Last Remnant on the 360, but would it be enough to get the PS3 selling at decent levels? I think if Sony is able add SE BC, then yes it would be enough.