Namco: “No Perfect Tales of Vesperia Overseas!”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 29, 2010 15:26 JST
- Tags: Namco Bandai, Ports, PS3, RPG, Tale series, Tales of Vesperia, USA, Xbox 360
Namco Bandai has consigned international fans of Tales of Vesperia to eternal beta tester status, saying it has no intention of releasing the PS3 version of the game in the US (and presumably in less important places too).
With the admittedly utterly staid and unoriginal Tales series performing unimpressively in its localised versions, it is not a huge surprise to see Namco saying it has “no plans” to release the game in the US.
Fans of Patty Fleur are sure to be disappointed; the Japanese version is however available now.
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i bought a PS3 for this t_t WTF
Then buy Star Ocean 4 Int. ver. and White Knight Chronicles to heal your pain.
http://talesofvesperia.net/
You could always wait for this to come out
In the words of Adam Sandler in big daddy, awww horse shit!
This does not surprise me at all. When I first heard news of the "perfect" version of ToV on the PS3, I knew we wouldn't be getting it. Namco Bandai is exceedingly predictable when it comes to the western market.
ITT: Butthurt weeaboos.
As a 360 "beta tester", I was completely willing to buy the same game twice if it meant I was getting new content.
Needless to say, this news doesn't really surprise me, but it does disappoint me.
Just like Tales of Symphonia... (TT_TT)
I bought the beta,
Stopped playing it when the perfect was annouced.
And now that I have forgotten most of the plot don't feel like finishing, or restarting the beta again.
even square is releasing international versions of his games, why can't namco do that to:?
Fuck this, seriously, fuck this.
I am not big into games and have little time to play but I love this style of games and when Vesperia came out I had planned to buy it.
"eventually"
then the PS3 version gets announced, with a loli, and I though hey I better wait for that one then and get it for my PS3
I waited.
And now this.
Namco Bandai is an asshole, I know its all business but this would still be a profitable port over here and this is not a way to treat consumers if they want people to remain loyal to the brand.
With Symphonia was the same...the Game Cube received an english localization...but the PS2 didn't...looks like this Namco bitches have a grudge against Playstation users overseas.
So much for an english PS3 "Perfect" version of Tales of Graces too.
Now I will only play this shit in moonspeak ONLY if the PS3 is hacked and the game is a "backup".
Now Nis America is our only savior!...Ar Tonelico III in english PLEASE!
They did the same thing with Symphonia, so I'm not surprised. Still not any less pissed about it, though.
O Namco, Why has thou forsaken me!?
*weeps*
That's too bad. I guess I'll just have to import a copy, after all.
Shit... now I have to spend extra dollars in shipping and bullthi >=/
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF WHY?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
And I thought I'd have a good 2010 with my newly-bought PS3
all those of you who are complaining and want to boycut namco bandai.. i have a better suggestion. :P buy japanese consoles! problem solved, who likes dubbed games anyway xD
PS3 isn't region locked, or so I've heard. You could just as easily learn Japanese. It only took me a few weeks to learn a good chunk of the writing system.
Namco fails so much, but well... we'll stick with Ar Tonelico 3 instead.
i dont understand this decision from an economical viewpoint. Most of the text should already be translated... so the costs should be relativly low. Its like saying they dont want the money.
maybe microsoft just paid for a time exclusivity in japan and total exclusivity outside of japan
WTF, its like they dont think of the western fans as important when compared to the Japanese fans. Like we dont buy the games too and enjoy them just as much.
You know, the whole reason I got a 360 was so I could play Vesperia. I absolutely love the Tales series. Now that I learn a more complete version is available only in Japanese for the PS3, it's pretty disappointing.
Yes, we still have the 360 version, but I don't think I can play it with as much enthusiasm I had before knowing how there's a better version out there. And my Japanese is abysmal (I should fix that). Siiiigh. Oh well.
Why would they need "beta testers" for a game that is essentially without any stopper bugs?
You guys at Sankaku don't know anything about software development. ToV Xbox is not a beta, it's a "revision 1.0".
Namco as usual. Ever since they merged with bandai they have even been halting localizations of bandai franchises. Like Mobile Ops: The One Year War, the day it had a successful release in japan they cancelled the western release, despite the japanese release already being entirely in english and exclusive to the xbox360.
this lies theres proof of localisation first. the same thing happened to eternal sonata and secondly . the voice acters have been called back for doing more dialogue and moves ect
where'd you here the second Part?
and on a lighter note I still cant get over when I saw Yuri Lowenthal questioned at a convention about the next tales game and his reaction when he found he wouldn't be playing the MC and that the MC was practically NAMED after him XD.
I hope Sony or Nintendo buys NamcoBandai when they start plummeting from sales.
Well there are some people who are subbing the whole game in English, and (as far as I know) their going to be giving it away for free for the ps3!
So there for us yet....
Well at least we'll be able to have this :http://www.talesofgraces.com/vesperia/: when it comes out
You have to be kidding me people...
I played this game 2 years ago on the 360 and it was incredible. One of my favorite RPG's this generation. You people are ridiculous waiting for the PS3 version and then calling the people who enjoyed every moment of it on 360 "beta-testers". Are you really that stupid and petty?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You mocked us 360 owners when we complained about the withheld content.
Well, you get NOTHING!
Serves you right, you condescending arses!
leaves me with 3 options, play my beta version, import this one and hope for the best, or hope its a lie like eternal sonata
Namdai doesn't like people buying stuff anymore? How silly, Namdai. How silly.
Lazy bastards..
can't think of any other bamco games I was looking for. Don't have a wii anymore so TOG is out this is a real kick in the teeth. Guess I'll start searching for a cheap 360 to buy.
NAMCO fails :X
You PS3 fanboys who took joy at the Xbox360 beta sure got told.
Bwahaha!
I have the 360 version and was one of those fucking beta's you asswipe. I'm still fucking pissed they won't release the Perfect vers. BUT then again someone on a playstation forum said they said the same things for the PS3 Eternal Sonata and look what happened... who knows? I still hope we get it but I know their track record with re-releasing tales games internationally that they have already released.
NO!!!!!!!! FUCK FUCK FUCK YOU BANDAINAMCO I ALREADY FUCKING WANNA KILL BANDAI EXECTS AND NOW I WANNA KILL YOU!!!
With that outa the way... I'm fucking pissed. I wanted to get the game but I don't know a lick of japanese sides from some words so I can't get the japanese version. This is fucking fair to us true blue tales of fans, they do this every fucking time they make a console port remake. Seriously WHY!
screw namco, until either tales of graces or ps3 tales of vesperia comes to america, i'm not buying anymore of their crap. that is the second release that they have denied from the states. i know there are more but i didn't give a shit about those crappy titles. maybe it's a sign i'm outgrowing RPG's. oh well, i can't wait until heavy rain comes out.
Bandai Namco trolls more than SquareEnix, at least we eventually got all the main Final Fantasys here (still pissed at no X and XII international, was it really that hard to even translate the extra stuff!!!!) Why we didnt get over half of the Tales games is beyond me...I guess that means absolutely no Tales of Graces Perfect for the PS3 in the future. We ALL know that's going to happen...
What do you mean no FFX international? European FFX has all stuff, that international ver had.
DAMN IT! They always do this!
Maybe if they had actually released the good games in the series and not the shitty Team Symphonia games.
Woah. Are you retarded? Tales of Symphonia was a great game! Sure, TOS 2 was shit on a stick but, TOS was freaking amazing. Don't just go and brand ALL Team Symphonia games as shitty when you have a perfectly good one right in your face.
I agree, Team Symphonia games are by far my favorite of the Tales Series, Tales of Legendia was a bit clunky to play, and I only played the GBA Tales of Phantasia, haven't played any other tales games sides Radiant and I loved that one alot too.
time to boycott Namco Bandai!
Fuck bamco namdai fuck fuck
June 2008: "We will never release Eternal Sonata PS3 in north America".
October 2008: The game is released in North America.
Do not believe anything Namco Bandai says at the moment, they never stay true to what they decide in the end. We will probably see the game out in a few months.
My guess is the issue of it maybe having to do with announcing anything too soon while they are still selling new copies of the game in Japan (remember the game is only 4-5 months old) & don't want to gouge their own sales. In fact, amazon is still selling the game new for the 360 right now for $29.99. So if there is to be any good news for a port, it would have to be significantly later in the year.
Other thing could be that Microsoft had paid for a not timed exclusive in this case & thus (similar to the case of Nintendo about symphonia) they are just unable to reuse any of the resources they put into the game already & re-release it here.
It could also be the case of SCEA being a bunch of dicks.
It could be that there has been no case of any tales remakes ever being released here in North America (don't quote me on this since I don't remember off the top of my head).
It could be a lot of things but is most likely business related. (See the case of Agarest not seeing a blu-ray release in NA)
Pick your poison, but it doesn't change the fact that at this current time, there is no official news of plans to release
actually we did get one remake only cuz we didn't get the original, the Tales of Phantasia for the GBA was released in the states but again, we didn't get any previous versions of it before that. I'm still wondering if we're going to get VS. and RM2
oh cmon... bring th english version...i want to play this Awesome game!!
Dont tell me i hav to import... D:
In June 2008, Namco Bandai said they would never release Eternal Sonata PS3 in North America. Four months later, in october 2008, the game was released in North America.
So don't take what Namco Bandai said seriously, we all know they will change their opinions anyway.
yeah but think about it, they never released a single tales remake game (With the exception of the GBA Phantasia but then again we never got any previous versions and in Europe the PSP Eternia but that's cuz they didn't get it as Destiny 2 like we did which PREVENTED Releasing Destiny 2 in the states nor did they get it AS Eternia prior to that) internationally
Strange thing is, I'm not bothered by this, I'm just happy enough that I have Tales of Vesperia For Xbox360 at all. I know what they just said sounds unfair, but once they say it, just take the news like a man and deal with it. Some of you guys can complain all day but that's not going to get Namco Bandai to release the game overseas. It's over.
Well, good thing I already played it on my 360 *wink*
Well, i bet that many tales of vesperia beta-tester's got their "betas" for free
that's probably why they aren't releasing it and why they aren't feeling guilty at all for doing so.
it's funny, only diehard fans are getting owned here... @_@
And this is the reason I got my "beta" for free and I'm not feeling the least bit guilty about it.
ah i feel a connection between us :D
taking money for betas isnt really the way to do it anyway rofl....
but seriously this totally sucks, i didnt finish the game 100% (didnt master all recipes or costumes for example) cause i planned to come back for the full version... but no full version no come back
see ya yuri, estelle, rika, raven.... and the others
old news is old Namco... did you really expect that veteran Tales fans would fall for it?
BOO! WE GOT SHAFTED!
YOU PSFAGS SURE GOT TOLD
Let this be a lesson;
Never put any faith in Namco, all it does is leads to disappointment.
I LEFT OUT TWO FUCK'S FUCK
FUCK THIS COMPANY AND EVERYONE THEY KNOW PLUS ALL THE EXTENDED FAMILIES. THIS IS THE ONLY REASON I WAS GOING TO BUY A NEXT GEN CONSOLE AND NOW THEY AIN'T GOING TO GIVE ME MY GAME? FUCK YOU NAMCO YOU ARE SHIT I HATE YOU YOU FUCKERS OF ARSE CUNT SHIT DICK.
2 Things:
1)Namco-Bandai retained the VAs for Tales of Vesperia about 2-3 months ago, it could have been a coincidence I suppose.
2)YOU NEVER EVER say a better version of something you currently have on the market is coming out or you annihilate all sales. They could easily have an NDA of some sort with Microsoft that doesn't allow them to advertise it or something. Or maybe they just don't want to upset MS. Who knows.
It's not good to here, but I'm not convinced.
but its not like there making any money on Tales of Vesperia on the 360 atm
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WHY IS THIS HAPPENING
The big reason why they couldn't bring PS2 Symphonia here was because Nintendo funded the localization, they would have had to start from scratch.
On the other hand, I wasn't expecting anything from Namco. They disappointed me so many times that I don't pay attention to their games till they're officially announced for localization.
They keep doing this over and over again. What don't they like about practically free money since all they would have to do is use the already existing translation and translate what little new dialog there is if any and release it.
PS. They did the same thing with Tales of Symphonia for the PS2.
Hooray for Namco, killing your fanbase even more!
step down! whoever namco ceo is
oh well... there is just a crappy market for these types of games in the west so why should the company provide their full attention
The Tales series does reasonably well enough in the west however. There's pretty much no reason why they shouldn't take it to the west.
Dat picture......
Shit sucks
Shit happens
Happens shit
Shitty Tales of Unperfection
shit
Fuck this shit.
Perfect Tales of Shit.
Considering I dropped like 100$ for the supposed "Limited Edition" of the beta, I kind of feel... like I might boycott Namco Bandai for the next year?
They'd have to release games in your territory for you to boycott them.
this is what you get for accusing japan's gaming/anime industry, criticising and banning their games.
now they just go, fuck you america and the likes, play your own crappy games!
You're just another dipshit evading the fucking criticism which JRPGs received. Don't try to evade them by saying how Western RPGs have their faults.
accusing them of what? what games have been banned? dipshit!
Namco doesn't even make any eroge that I know of. Why would they hurt themselves by not releasing the game on the (now much more popular) PS3? Unless they think they WON'T make good sales....
It's UK based, but most femnazis are from the US.
Dumbass, equality now. Nuff said.
Lolz what a noob. Have you heard of equality now?
yup he's right, and im guessing most of you hating on America are Americans... doesn't matter to me though i hate it here.
Isn't Equality Now based out of the UK?
Zetsuboushita!!!
The Imperfect Tales of Vesperia Overseas has left me in Despair!!!
This is a SoL moment for me. =_= I was looking forward to it. So much so that I didn't pick it up on Xbox...
i must concur to this
Thats my line.
Minus Atlus. I haven't seen anything disappointing when they localize games. So I'm happy for that. But otherwise yeah. Huge dissapointment with Bamco.
It would be nice to see the PS3 version come over but since it's not, this just means I should just study the language more so I don't have to worry about localizations -.-
And Game Freak doesn't has such attitudes either. The main Pokémon games haven't been significantly crippled in the localizations, with the exception of Crystal, which made the Japanese lucky because by connecting their GBCs to their cell phones, they could do pretty much what every Pokémon player around the world does now over Wi-Fi in the DS games.
Oh come on. There is no way there exist anything imperfect in this world~ ^^
...
Screw this. It's like Namco Bandai is toying with us. It's like ALL game company is toying with us lately!
Yeah, now go hang yourself sensei...
BTW, really liked the Dynasty Clones bashing at source.
No kidding. Their sales may be better over here if they would stop screwing all their customers over by releasing complete versions of their games a literal year after the original title. I always liked the Tales series, but I completely stopped caring because of this. There is no reason to keep buying BN games when they first release anymore. And now, its apparently not worth it ever.