I don’t think people understand how unpopular Xbox is in Japan. Seriously. There are electronic stores in Japan that don’t even carry them because they are so unpopular.
If you want next gen, you have Sony, if you want the old school stuff, you buy Nintendo, there is no market for Xbox in Japan outside of the real hardcores.
Exactly. ASW has given Xbox 360 plenty of chances. Guilty Gear 2: Overture. Battle Fantasia. Hard Corps: Uprising. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Continuum Shift, & Continuum Shift Extend. Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus.
Most of those games just doesn’t happen to sell on Xbox platforms in comparison to Playstation platforms. And that’s why they have now gotten more smarter in going for the platform(s) in which they know that most of their audience will buy their games on, just like with Namco-Bandai with the “Tales of” series: When they ported “Tales of Vesperia” over to PS3 in Japan, there was much more higher sales for it on that system than there was on Xbox 360. They even ported “Tales of Graces” from the Wii over to PS3 as “Tales of Graces F,” & again, more sales on PS3. This is why they have “Tales of Xillia 1 & 2,” as well as the upcoming “Tales of Symphonia: Chronicles,” & “Tales of Zestiria” as PS3 exclusives.
Even other Japanese games like Persona 5 are becoming PS3 exclusive. And ASW is making both BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma & the next Persona 4 fighting game as PS3 exclusives after the Arcade versions.
Plain & simple, if you want tons of Japanese-made titles like those mentioned above, you have to stick to either Nintendo’s platforms & handhelds, or Playstation consoles & handhelds.
Which is why theres needs to be more authority in the industry same way it is for movies.
This era of paying off publications for early copies and banning youtube accounts that slam games needs to end. Companies are QUICK to talk about how successful a game is, but we have no gauge on what is or isnt successful in the industry. I’m surprised it hasnt already happened.
Yeah, but games like BBCP and the new Persona Arena are just upgrades with new content but using the same engine. Besides the scene being bigger on the Sony systems with those games. ASW probably just gave the teams behind those games a small enough budget to only release it on the PS3 since ports and renting out servers cost a lot of money especially if it was multiplatform. Not to mention those games don’t have a big enough scene like before, so they just kept it on one system to save money.
The new GG on the other hand is a different story. Its not just some upgrade to a current GG its a completely NEW GG running on a new engine. I’m sure the reason they chose the Unreal Engine 3 not just for its amazing graphics, but how easier it is to port games especially on MS consoles. It was a nightmare porting BB and P4A for the 360, but the Unreal Engine will make porting it a breeze.
GG is ASW’s main worldwide moneymaker and I’m sure they didn’t dumped a lot of money, which they probably spent a majority of their budget on, just to make it exclusive to only Sony consoles. Not to mention that MS made it easier to port online multiplayer games now by renting out MS servers for a cheap price.
Hell, I won’t be surprise if we end up seeing it on Wii U as well.
Those games dont run on Servers, ArkSys isnt renting out anything. They are p2p, the online play is free for them. No one is saying it wont come out for other systems, we are tellin you why it unlikely to come out for MSs system. Arksys has already said they would like to try and release it on Wii-u (tho that systems low sales may be turning them off to the idea, dunno). Either way its not it wont happen its that it is unlikely to happen.
Hey, XBOX guys, don’t act like all last gen you didn’t get a bunch of XBLA exclusives over PSN with all those SNK games and SHMUPS, original Soul Cal, etc. And hey, you got Killer Instinct! That’s something! I say fair is fair, let the Sony folk have a few and realize you can’t have everything available on one machine.
If only I had 98um and 02um on PS3. It’d be soooooooooooooo much easier to get my local scene into older KOF games. And I don’t have an older PS3 to run PS2 games, and I heard that running 98um or even XI as a PS2 disc on a PS3 has lag anyways.
PS3 BC is total ass. You’d be better off emulating it on a PC.
PS2s are cheap and plentiful, shouldnt be hard finding one.
The PS2 thing is easy. Getting PS2 sticks for other people to play isn’t as easy though. +R on PS3 made it easy to play others since people have dual-modded sticks abound.
Yea I guess that’s true.
Look for t5 anniversary sticks on ebay they are plentiful and cheap
But are they any good? I, personally, am getting a really solid gaming laptop and emulating MAME, DC/Naomi, Dolphin and crossing my fingers that an i7 3.5+ ghz will run ps2 emu smoothly.
Laptop is super portable, runs almost everything including Taito Type X/X2, has it’s own screen, hdmi out and usb sticks are compatible.
Not an economic solution for most, but all-inclusive and suits my non-fighter gaming needs as well, plus I need a new laptop for music and art anyway. Will be great to drag along with my ps3 when I’m out.
Well, they are usable. Both the stick and the buttons are Hori (not Sanwa like the HRAP). I had to get 2 of those recently since my HRAP died on me. I pretty much only bought in order to keep playing Hokuto no Ken on my ps2.
If your laptop can handle, you are better off running an emulator with whatever stick you currently have.
I have a SFxT Madcatz TE that I picked up for $45 in fantastic condition at a local used game store, as well as a TvC Wii stick with usb converter, though I need to mod that as the joystick is on the way out and the buttons are getting a bit loosey-goosey.
I’m sure there are problems with PS2 emulation but I’m hoping it’s good enough to run games I can’t run on better emulators. All the same, with so much great arcade emulation and my ps3 there’s really not too much to worry about.
If I buy another stick it’ll be because my PS4 won’t support what I have with future games.
So here’s a fun question, though it may have already been discussed: For those of you who own or will own both PS3 and PS4, which platform will you buy Xrd on?
Here are the advantages of each as I see them:
PS3
Much larger user base, including friends who won’t own PS4 for awhile
Arcade Stick compatibility
Convenience (all my fighting games are already on PS3, don’t want to bring 2 consoles to meet-ups)
May be tournament standard due to above (if there’s performance parity)
PS4
Better visuals, possibly better performance
Record/edit/upload footage at system level
Twitch streaming out of the box
Better online features (System level, like party chat)
MAYBE they’ll support legacy sticks (Sony has commented that this was up to developers and so far we only have Injustice to go by and it did not)
Time to start making the console transition, eventually fighting games will stop coming to PS3 anyway
I’m leaning PS4 as it is a far better machine to play games on and I see a lot of potential for the FGC with its recording and streaming functions. But it is totally inconvenient to have to straddle this awkward period where most people don’t own one yet. And probably needing a new stick is pretty lame. But what the hell did I buy a PS4 for if I’m not going to buy games for it?
Double dipping that shit. Well…potentially triple. Import PS3 copy. Perhaps buy another when its localized. Then PS4 when I get that.
This all depends on whether or not the PS3 is a bad port. I have faith that ArcSys will make it so it runs at a solid 60fps, but if it doesnt…Ill still buy it, but not twice for the PS3.
PS3 gets 60 FPS, it’s PS3 all day. If it struggles on PS3, then the choice becomes a much tougher one.
PS4 all the way.
The user base is going to be at least 4:1 PS3. I’ll probably go PS4 for the flair and Twitch and double-dip on a used PS3 copy down the line, or reverse that if I can’t use my stick or haven’t bought a new one. But I’ll most likely be getting a PS4 stick if Ultra gets the rumored next-gen port.