In Japan, ToS was one of the worst selling games in the series.  A lot of ToS's sales came from the West.

hmmm pretty interesting. i wonder how much it cost to develop each game

Not much compared to FFXIII

I actually think the 3D version would sell better in the US, even though I prefer the 2D. Americans are weird like that.

I prefer the 2D aswell, the 3D looks like they were trying to turn an anime into real life (i.e Dragon Ball......... oh man will that movie suck) without adjusting the style to compensate.

ew. the main dude in the 3d version look like a freak show.

I prefer 2D as well. However, Tales of the World 2 is in 3D and will be launching in Japan in 3 weeks time, and then we'll be able to compare its sales to Tales of Hearts, which, unlike Tales of the World 2, is a mainline Tales of game.

Any predictions?

I don't care for either style to be honest. The women in the anime art look atrocious. The female lead looks like an anime rendition of Olive Oil. The guys don' t look bad in the anime style.

As for the CGI style. the male lead should fire his barber immediately. The women still look off to me. Overall the CGI just looks uninspired. The characters have a lifeless doll look to them, even the ones that did make the transition to CGI well.

If I had to choose I'd pick the anime style because it goes with the in game graphics better. Both could use serious work, particularly the CGI look.

Dude he's talking about character designs.  Symphonia doesn't use 3d character designs.

Japan likes anime, news at 11.

OT: can ya blame em, unfortunately it seems obvious that they designed the 2d version of the characters first and then just tried to transfer it directly to 3d. Character designs look very weird in 3d comparatively.