Who cares if it is a spin off. Most Final Fantasy games have been getting spin offs that have been selling great and even the spin off get a spin off.

Spin off doesn't mean less sales. I agree with Soriku and will say Symphonia will sell more, considering the time the game is going to be released where the Wii will continue to grow its user base as will DS, but I think
1. Lack of RPG competition on Wii
2.Desire for a Nintendo console Tales game since Syphonia while PS2 and PSP continued to get Tales games.
3.Name recognition for Symphonia.

How is saying that a Tales game on one Nintendo platform would sell better than a Tales game on another Nintendo platform killing hype for Tales on a Nintendo platform? If anything that explanation is even more illogical, especially when taking in consideration that the random swing at the Star Ocean in my signature is on... *drumroll* a Nintendo platform.

No one cares about Final Fantasy spinoffs; this is Tales. You people seem to be out of touch with the fact that Tales spinoffs don't sell as well as main entries. Any argument against that is simply delusional. It doesn't mean the ToS gaiden won't sell well, it's just not going to sell as well as the main series.

1. We'll see how much of a lack of RPGs there are when the game comes out.

2. There have been other Tales on Nintendo platforms. They haven't sold as well.

3. There is no name recognition, it was one game in a large series. It amassed a larger army of fanboys than the others, but that means nothing seeing the low sales of Phantasia, Legendia, and Abyss. Symphonia was a fluke. It doesn't mean that success can't happen again, it's just unlikely that a spinoff with half the manpower is somehow going to repeat or even exceed what the series struggled to do even once.

It is.

http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=450

Only direct sequels in the main series get the number treatment in Tales. Ratatosk Knight is a spinoff just like Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon was a spinoff.

It doesn't matter to me, I'm getting both. GO Tales games.

I'ma go with the DS purely because of install base. I plan on getting the game with better scores in terms of review. If they're similar, I'll go with DS because it's cheaper. I'm a fan of the Tales series, but I'm a poor high school kid.

!. Name any other major RPG that will launch around the time of ToS. Oh, and for the record, I happen to like FF spin offs such as Crystal Chronicles and am looking forword to Crystal Chronicles Wii and DS, as well as Final Fantasy XII DS. If no one cared about spin offs, no one would buy them, and no one, especially Square, would continue to make them, so speak for yourself.

2. I think if Symphonia would have came out exclusively for PS2 in the US it would have performed as poorly as the other Tales games for the system, but Symphonia was released to an audience that was starved for a great RPG ( a la Wii). Now that the game has a sizeable following, I think it can eclipse the original and bring in new fans as well. It was no fluke at all

Claude you realize you're actively preventing this thread from achieving anything worthwhile in the way of discussion. All you're doing is shooting down everything anyone has to say. Knock it off.

It's all gravy to me. I'm going to get both if they are up to ToS standards. I absolutely loved that game.

Innocence, mainly because DS > Wii in terms of WW sales, so there's a larger market for it to reach. If ToS: KoR came out say in 09? Easily would have done it.