Tales of Xillia

[Vindicta™]

Something related.

Namco Bandai shifts development focus to Japan

Namco Bandai has announced its focus to shift development of new titles back to Japan, after its recent attempt at developing titles in the west proved unprofitable.

“We found the quality and development speed of titles made for us by the overseas studios to be lacking,” Namco Bandai President Shukuo Ishikawa said in an interview with Bloomberg in Tokyo yesterday. “Foreign studios can still propose and develop games, but our Japanese staff will control the process more closely.”

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a good example in this situation. The game, although it received fantastic reviews, only sold an approximate of 335,000 units worldwide. The company’s expectations for the Ninja Theory-developed game were much higher.

Namco Bandai earns more than 70 percent of its revenue in Japan, and wants to increase western sales to half of its total by March 31, 2016.

Let’s start by localizing Tales of Vesperia (PS3), Tales of Graces F, and Tales of Xillia, then, eh?

Namco Bandai shifts development focus to Japan - Scrawl

www.bloomberg.co.jp/apps/news?pid=90900001&sid=awiPU9h5R1uE

That sees chances of localization, in this case the Tales Of series, to be near-zero.

Meanwhile, Tales Of fans are bombarding Bamco's FB page with insults everyday: Namco Bandai | Facebook

[PKShota]

That post just confuses me...the near-zero message or the "Let's start by...."

Either way GIVE ME MY PS3 VESPERIA. AND GRACES f. AND XILLIA.

[Kotarou]

It took 3 failed games to make them get the message? Heh.

Stick to your original IPs, Namco. Far more profitable.


BACK TO MY GRACES F.

[RoflKnife]

Ok, you devs keep refusing to localize your games that fans everywhere want you to localize. We'll just use translation patches, and you can cry over lost potential profit.

[hueyple]

Originally Posted by Kotarou

It took 3 failed games to make them get the message? Heh.

Stick to your original IPs, Namco. Far more profitable.


BACK TO MY GRACES F.

*facepalms*
IKR?!?! GAHHH
what where they thinking....

[Kotarou]

The mobfans on facebook have gotten a "breakthrough" of sorts when the new Community Manager agreed to respond to Tales questions... lol.

Well, fingers crossed!

[Dani]

^ No surprise they got a new one considering what a good job the old one did. derpderp

[Mega]

-also crosses fingers-

I already posted a thing on the facebook post to please bring over tales of vesperia, graces f, and xillia lol.

I hope we get get at least ONE of those 3 T_T

[Dani]

I want graces f the most out of the three but I'd be happy if we got at least one. Seriously. ;___;

Though I'd play Xillia just for the martial artist protag

[Mega]

Since they're all on PS3 I really don't care which one we get lol. We can still always import the japanese versions `-`...

But if they do announce one of these being brought to the US, I guess I'll hold off on importing~

[Eden]

/bump

Gameplay trailer:



http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/201...s_xillia_date/

Those are a lot of bonus. Also Star Driver cross over lol.

[Zuro]

Cless and Stahn. Sexy.

[Kenzor]

Stahn has boobs

[Mega]

omggggggg Star Driver in the Tales Series?!

/dies

Looking forward to this one. I just hope if we do get it, we also get the Star driver costumes

[Kisaragi]

Tales of FABULOUS, more like.

[Grendere]

[Kenzor]

battle system nicely paced
and it looks like the characters are pretty likeable too (except that teenage girl, she's most likely going to be the annoying one)

[Kotarou]

Will preorder, as soon as my local vendor can confirm he can get it. : >

[PKShota]

So it looks like there are 6 main characters. Since the game has focused on duo team combos...that's many variations.

[Dani]

Holy shit that battle system and even just how the game works (camera/scenery wise and how it seems like it looks almost like an action game more then a rpg...)
wantwantwantwant