Thursday, September 17, 2009

Time for another Kotaku response!
This time it's an article on Tales of Vesperia, which you can read here.

The game, and Exclusive for the Xbox360 when it was released in August of last year, is now being released for the PS3. The big deal here is that the game was developed exclusive for Xbox, and they signed a one year contract with Microsoft. Microsoft helped the process by providing development funds and services. Sony doesn't offer those kind of services.
They say it also easier to develop for the Xbox360. So the title was made for the Xbox. Namco, the developers of the game, know that the Xbox will not sell as many copies and won't completely cover development costs. So they are bringing the game to the PS3 a little over a year later. But Sony said that they will not recognize the game unless extra content was added, so that is precisely what Namco did.

I find it very amusing that what originally have been Xbox360 exclusive games are now coming to the PS3. The Xbox is now almost become a sort of "beta" system. This is not only happened for Tales of Vesperia, but also Star Ocean IV, Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Ninja Gaiden Sigma II.

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