Microsoft blocked PS3 Tales of Vesparia localization.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-20-microsoft-blocked-ps3-tales-of-vesperia

Boy, I love bullshit politics and corporate warfare, with us gamers being the casualties.

If I hadn't recently bought a 360 along with To V, I'd be pretty pissed. As it stands, I'm mildly annoyed, and therefore thinking rationally enough to recognize that this is simply how third-party developed exclusives work.

Still kind of a dick move on Micro's part, though.

EDIT: Though I do have to wonder why in the world they felt that they needed to keep a niche JRPG exclusive to their system...

edited 20th Jun '11 4:01:08 PM by LizardBite

Under the table deals to make one game an exclusive is one thing. Preventing an UPGRADED VERSION from being localized because its on another console is another.

The first I hate but I can accept

The later is bullshit. Why I haven't sold my 360 yet is beyond me.

It's probably the same reason why the PS 2 version of Tales Of Symphonia never made it over here as well; Microsoft (Nintendo) paid for exclusive rights to distribute Vesperia (Symphonia) in English. As to why Microsoft cares about niche RP Gs, I think Vesperia was part of Microsoft's effort to get strong JRP Gs (Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Lost Odyssey, The Last Remnant, and very probably FFXIII were also part of that effort) on their system, something they seemed to have stopped caring about recently.

The blind man walking off the cliff is not making a leap of faith.

Well of course they abandoned it. No one in Japan gave two shits about the 360, and now they are going into KINECTKINECTKINECTKINECTKINECT mode.

Yeah. I'm also guessing the exclusivity contract either applies for a lifetime or for a number of years after which point Vesperia will have long stopped being relevant.

Still, Vesperia is my favorite game of this generation and that was before I played the PS3 version, and if nothing else I'm glad Namco decided it's worth it to start translating Tales games again.

The blind man walking off the cliff is not making a leap of faith.

Since when does the average XBox gamer care about JRP Gs, anyway?

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They don't, but Microsoft had enough money to at least attempt to pull over that demographic.

The blind man walking off the cliff is not making a leap of faith.

Wait, the PS 3 version of Tales Of Vesperia was going to get localized?

THIS IS A TRAVESTY!

Sorry, I can't hear you from my FLYING METAL BOX!

Travesty?

THIS. IS. BUSINESS. AS. USUAL. UNFORTUNATELY.

Jerkasses.

What did exactly Microsoft have to gain by keeping Vesperia to themselves?

The only real reason they could have had was prevent Sony from profitting off of the superior version of the game (but was Vesperia PS 3 even announced before the original game came out else where? I keep thinking that it wasn't.)

Wait......they prevented a localization of a superior version on a console that isn't in theirs?!

Whelp, Microsoft's approval rating went from 5% to 0%. I can't say much has changed, since Microsoft and it's console has always easily been at the bottom of the big 3's...but still...

PS 3 gets boring shit like Heavy Rain, and X Box gets a translated inferior version of Tales Of Vesperia?!

Doesn't matter to those who can read and understand japanese though. And what X Box fan even plays J-no, any RP Gs anyways? The only few who got an X Box for RP Gs are those who wanted to play Tales Of Vesperia before finding out it was going to be released on the PS 3...and those suckers regretted it once they found out they bought a inferior version of the game.

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On second thought...it kinda sucks for both sides. X Box owners gets an inferior version of a game translated to them. PS 3 get's "Quick-Time Events! TheGame!"

edited 20th Jun '11 5:24:38 PM by Signed

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Microsoft probably doesn't even care about it anymore; I sincerely doubt they're actively keeping a PS3 English version from happening. But like I said, their exclusivity contract probably applies for a period of time longer than Vesperia would be relevant.

The blind man walking off the cliff is not making a leap of faith.

Bastards.

(How many Tales games did we get in Europe, again? Two? Three, maybe?)

Estimated shipping time: 2-4 weeks.

I certainly don't regret playing Tales Of Vesperia on the Xbox.

And, well, this is kind of the point of exclusivity contracts. Not just kind of the point, it's the entire point. It's not surprising at all, and in fact I doubt Microsoft has a particularly active role in enforcing it. I'm more annoyed at Namco for signing it in the first place given that they clearly had no intention of keeping it exclusive. And for signing a different contract for the English version.

Now... I don't understand why this is a bad thing. If Namco really cared about everyone getting the "better" version of the game, they'd have released an upgraded version on the 360 as well(for those outside of Japan). Since Namco had no intention of doing so in the first place, I really don't have a problem with Microsoft invoking their exclusivity rights.

In a way, stuff like this is exactly why you need your 360! (It's all part of Microsoft's plans!)

edited 20th Jun '11 7:57:47 PM by Firebert

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Namco: HEY GUYS LETS LOCALISE THE UPDATED PS 3 VERSION OF VESPER-

Microsoft: -extends neck- Nope.

Namco: :c

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It's a pretty dickish (and sad, I'd have liked to try out Tales of Vesperia) thing, but nothing surprising. Typical corporation tactics, not worse than what Nintendo did in the 8-bit era. I just wonder why it's ToV and not something more well-known.

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

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[localization flops]

"See? Western world does not care for your stupid eastern RPGs. Let us not localize any of them again."

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Looks like that I will gonna wait for the Fantranslation

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