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NoCtiS_NoX on 24 April 2009
Himan11 said:
I think after FF13 n Versus released, don't expect SE's title on PS3 anymore, the "multiplatform" thing is just their soft way to run away from PS3 and Sony, well maybe on PSP one or two titles. But most of their future titles will be exclusive for X360 and Wii. PS3 is out of the picture for em.

 

It depends on how will versus will sell. If versus sells phenomenal then we might expect another sony exclusives from SE.

 



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Jeronimo66 on 24 April 2009
Drage said:
Jeronimo66 said:

man that is going to be classic final fantasy on 2 platforms for the first time.

 

 Oh jesus, the fanboy wars are going to be ridiculous!

Yup like I said classic.

 



Rei on 24 April 2009

   I think that making an HD jRPG game is not reasonable if you dont get some additional support, that Microsoft clearly provides.

   Capcom's comments on the future of Breath of Fire and the lack of Suikoden, Persona, Grandia and other jRPG franchises on HD consoles pretty much confirms this to me.



Lurker on 24 April 2009

They're desperate for the West because now JRPGs no longer have a monopoly on consoles. It's all about WRPGs now and people are sick of JRPGs.



RVDondaPC on 24 April 2009

Isn't it only tri-ace games that have gone 360 exclusive?
Maybe Tri-ace was the one that struck a deal with MS.
They are an independent developer.
Square Enix just Publishes their games.



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NoCtiS_NoX on 24 April 2009
Lurker said:
They're desperate for the West because now JRPGs no longer have a monopoly on consoles. It's all about WRPGs now and people are sick of JRPGs.

 

How about me? I am not yet sick of playing JRPG. JRPG>WRPG for me and I know I am not alone.



slowmo on 24 April 2009
Akvod said:
slowmo said:

It's their business strategy and it must be making them some money. I'm surprised the 360 has had so many exclusives from them as I would have thought multiplatform would be better but perhaps they're committed to breaking into a more traditional "hardcore" western audience. I'm just desciribing the 360 fanbase as hardcore as its the typical stereotype given to 360 owners, who mainly buy the console for shooters supposedly.  Perhaps they admire the effort Microsoft is putting in to crossing into such a difficult market for a foreign manufacturer and want to try and make a similar transition with their products to the western market.

If Microsoft paid for so many of these titles you'd have thought they'd have shares in the company by now

Edit: But haven't SE been making lackluster sales compared to what they used to be selling games for, and reported as having trouble financially?

But as people said before, they've had broken into the Western markets and sold a lot of games in the West. If they still want to increase sales, the platforms are not the issue, but simply the ammount of fans of the genre in the first place. Shunning an entire console is simply to cut off a major part of their existing fans of the genre. Putting the game on a specific console, isn't enough to make them become interested in the game and buy it.

Many people are creeped out by the otaku subculture and many call JRPG characters as looking gay and stupid. Then the problem lies there, and the new problem is trying to balance what made your game appeal to the original audience in the first place (it's Japanese ness and JRPG game elements) and to what might intice non-fans of the genre (perhaps lets make the main character have gun, make the story a bit more mature, make the boy look more gruff and manly, etc).

I have thought for a long time that the JRPG genre needs to really innovate from the standard story fare they've recycled for too long.  This is a core fault with these games that needs to change as the traditional JRPG gamers are getting older and moving on to other WRPG's now.

 



Jo21 on 24 April 2009

the english version will be done faster than a port

actually the english version have to be done first unless they want to redo all the animations.
the english version will be delayed. thats almost a fact.



Jeronimo66 on 24 April 2009
Jo21 said:
the english version will be done faster than a port

actually the english version have to be done first unless they want to redo all the animations.
the english version will be delayed. thats almost a fact.

 

I was thinking the same thing, but then I realized translation takes considerable time, you have to change all the Japanese voices to english voices as well as translate the Japanese text to english, all this takes up considerable time and would be on par with if not longer than bringing over the graphics assets and cut-scenes to the 360.



darkhaven63 on 24 April 2009

Well for one it's obviously the money. SE jumped on the money bandwagon when MS opened their checkbook(shows them the briefcase, your call). But when you think about it PS3 JRPGs do fairly well like WKC for example. Shouldn't that be a wake-up call for SE to make games for the PS3? The other reason as people mentioned above is SE trying to break into the western market. I wonder if SE will step up now (Hm Probably not)