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Forums - Sony - Namco thanks Japanese 360 Tales of Vesperia owners for being beta trialists

S.T.A.G.E. on 24 October 2009
ssj12 said:
ok, so the 360 owners pay for development costs while the real game is released on the PS3. Not the worst idea I've heard in terms of business. The 360 version still got the updates to improve the game.


I have heard nothing about the updates. The 360 owners will get no updates even though Microsoft paid for it.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 24 October 2009
Hephaestos said:
umh.... they don't actually use the term beta or testers do they? cause from the original news, they say to add the terms for a better effect...

I was pissed at first, cause using these terms would be extreemly badly played. But they didn't... It's still a bad thing that they talked about the 360 version to say that one was much better in the booklet.

I was gonna boycot namco games (don't have time to play the games I already own so it's not a big loss), but i'll just boycot vesperia and remove it from my list of games to buy...

It doesn't matter what the term sounds like to us. It is just a fact that when you get the full effect of actions and words the term screwed still means screwed.



S.T.A.G.E. on 24 October 2009
whatever said:
This is tooo funny with all these 360 owners whining. Get over it and get a PS3.

Some of you people are just heartless. Just STFU man. I have a PS3 and it is still wrong.



darthdevidem01 on 24 October 2009

@STAGE

what will you do then

Do you really think not putting extra content was viable, the game wouldn't have sold as much in Japan

it WENT to 360 because of you know what

Now its on PS3, I demand it have extra content for making us wait an extra year



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makingmusic476 on 24 October 2009

What about people that bought 360s for games like this assuming they were actually exclusive?

Both sides got screwed here. In the end, it was Namco playing whore to Microsoft's pocket book that screwed people over. The game should've been multiplat from the get go.



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darthdevidem01 on 24 October 2009

@makingmusic

I doubt atleast people in Japan are gonna fall in the "360 JRPG's" trap again

as SO4 & TOV are on PS3 now, with heavy rumors of TLR coming



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loves2splooge on 24 October 2009

@darth

~60,000 people bought Magnacarta II in Japan (this was before the SO4 PS3 announcement but well after the ToV PS3 announcement) and many 360 owners in the west have said that they're going to buy Magnacarta II (for 360) even after the SO4 announcement. So I think the belief that people are going to avoid 360 jrpg exclusives from now on is false. Most gamers aren't going to wait for the possibility of a port. Just look at the GTA games. PS2 versions sold a lot more than the "complete" Xbox versions. I'll probably get Magnacarta II but I'm waiting for a half-price drop at the very least (as I do with most games I buy).



Loud_Hot_White_Box on 24 October 2009
makingmusic476 said:
What about people that bought 360s for games like this assuming they were actually exclusive?

Both sides got screwed here. In the end, it was Namco playing whore to Microsoft's pocket book that screwed people over. The game should've been multiplat from the get go.

I mean, yeah...it was surely foreseeable to MS that their strategy of gaining 'exclusives' would result in this.  Maybe they figured the first year of exclusivity was so important to them that they just didn't care about later reactions and fan feelings?



makingmusic476 on 24 October 2009

They may have some pissed off fans, but they still have a several tens of thousands of consoles sold over these games, and a few games to go along with each of those console.



loves2splooge on 24 October 2009

Keep in mind that the Japanese attach rate for the 360 is higher than the PS3 attach rate. So while you have plenty of disgrunted Tales and SO fanboys who bought the console for 1 game, the majority of Japanese 360 owners are clearly enjoying the software.

Xbox 360 4.95 tie ratio vs PS3 3.56 tie ratio in Japan
http://www.vgchartz.com/jweekly.php

So I wouldn't take the rantings of pissed off Tales and SO fanboys too seriously. They don't represent the average Japanese 360 gamer. If more quality Japanese software makes its way to the 360, the Japanese will continue to buy the games. Just like how 60,000 or so Japanese bought Magnacarta II even well after the ToV PS3 port announcement.