Post by: Pale on February 16, 2005, 05:21:35 AM
Edit: Alright, edited title for sake of what its really about. Hopefully the mods will move it to other systems.
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 16, 2005, 05:27:45 AM
Post by: borat on February 16, 2005, 05:28:17 AM
Post by: Pale on February 16, 2005, 06:14:52 AM
Post by: vudu on February 16, 2005, 08:24:21 AM
QuoteSure there is. In Japan, Symphonia sold as many copies on the PS2 in one week as it sold on the GameCube up until that point. How long a lead did the GameCube version have--at least six months, right?
there is just no reason to not release it on both PS2 and Gamecube.
Post by: Pale on February 16, 2005, 09:04:04 AM
Post by: Djunknown on February 16, 2005, 06:05:35 PM
I've heard that there were a couple of additions, enchancements to the PS2 version. Without spoiling it too much one of them made Zelos and Kratos pure equals, some new group techs, etc.
I guess ToS was just a fling for Nintendo owners. It did pretty decent in US if I'm not mistaken (It cracked the top 10 according to NPD's July or August 2004 data..), why not make another one?
I believe Tales of Eternia has been announced for the PSP, though I could be mistaken.
On the bright side, Baten Kaitos gets a second chance on the DS....
Post by: Ymeegod on February 16, 2005, 06:40:15 PM
Yet, it takes them a good while to translate anything anyhow--wouldn't be surprised to see it arrive on the shelves mid July again (one year after the launch of the GC version--just like in Japan).
Kinda looking forward to the port stateside though--already beaten the GC version but it would be nice to see all the animated cutscences now.
Post by: Myxtika1 Azn on February 16, 2005, 09:38:52 PM
I've read that one of the Tales games did horrible on the PSOne. Does anybody know what the title of that game is?
Post by: Gamefreak on February 16, 2005, 09:58:10 PM
Oh but I forgot, the only people that deserve it are the Nintendo fanboys, about 5% of which actually bought Tales of Symphonia
Anyway there's always the possibility of a GCN version being announced, especially since ToS did fairly well.
Post by: ruby_onix on February 17, 2005, 12:04:12 AM
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I've read that one of the Tales games did horrible on the PSOne. Does anybody know what the title of that game is?
Namco released "Tales of Destiny" and "Tales of Destiny 2" (it's real name was Tales of Eternia) on the PSone in America.
As of January 2003:
Tales of Destiny - 68,614
Tales of Destiny 2 - 56,864
As of Dec 31:
Tales of Symphonia - 285,000 (on the GameCube in America)
Tales of Symphonia - 184,000 (on the GameCube in Europe)
Tales of Symphonia - 395,000 (on the PS2 in Japan)
As of last October:
Tales of Symphonia - 332,000 (on the GameCube in Japan)
The port of Tales of Eternia (aka: Tales of Destiny 2) on the PSP is supposedly going to be released in America again. Namco sucks.
Post by: couchmonkey on February 17, 2005, 06:35:57 AM
Post by: vudu on February 17, 2005, 08:09:52 AM
QuoteI believe Nintendo owns the rights to the translated text and voice-acting. If Namco wanted to release a PS2 version in America/Europe, they would have to retranslate everything, and re-record all new voiceovers.
Translation shouldn't take that long at all considering there's already the GC English version.
Post by: Pale on February 17, 2005, 12:18:38 PM
Post by: vudu on February 18, 2005, 07:39:38 AM
Post by: nitsu niflheim on February 18, 2005, 08:41:38 AM
Post by: Ymeegod on February 19, 2005, 11:49:39 AM
Two, it always take forever for developers to port/translate games (SoA for example--there was an English DC version but it still took sega 4+ months).
Guess Nacmo's not really pushing it to the states just yet because it already has an TBRPG out (xenosaga II). Usually developers tend to seperate their own games a couple of months, kinda dumb competing against oneself :0.
Still I wouldn't drop the support for the GC just yet (porting over the game is cheaper than creating a new one)--in Japan it's still number 2 (by a large margin) and that's where Namco generates most of it's sales for it's RPGs anyhow.
Post by: ruby_onix on February 19, 2005, 06:37:55 PM
Project Melfes was supposed to be Namco's big title for the PSP. They were supposed to be hyping it by giving away a free UMD with Tales of Rebirth (on the PS2), which would contain a demo for it, but then Namco apparently just ended up putting some Project Melfes images on Rebirth's PS2 DVD.
So now it seems that Project Melfes for the PSP was completely canned, and moved over to being a PS2 title.
Post by: Pale on February 21, 2005, 03:41:38 AM
