Tales of Vesperia (PS3) Is there a chance in hell?

[Bartlebycs]

I hate the X-Box 360.  I loathe Microsoft. And I vowed I would never have one in my home, instead relying on the PS3 and Wii for my entertainment purposes.  And I've been very satisfied.
The problem is, I love the Tales series.  I own every US released game +ToD: DC, and Phantasia for PSP.  When I heard there was a Tales game coming out fot the next-gen system, you can imagine how stoked I was. 

Tales of Vesperia looks beautiful, and from what I've heard has a great story, too.  Now here comes the problem.  It's only been released for the X-Box 360.  And that status hasn't changed.  Everytime I check Namco's site, it says it's only on X-Box 360.  And I've heard terrible rumors that it will always be so. It will never be spreading it's wings over to Sony or Nintendo, who have always treated it's children well. 

Guys, I'm desperate.  I don't ask for much, I just want my Tales games.   My only options so far are to either buy an X-Box 360 and go against everything I believe in, or find an X-Box 360 emulator that runs smoothly on a PC.  Niether seem very likely at this point, but what other choices are there?? 

Someone save me, I need to know if there's a chance of Vesperia coming to my precious baby, the PS3?  I'll even settle for a PC port. I wanna play it, but I can't!  How much longer must I be patient before the God of Games smiles upon me?
Help!!!

[ForceCube]

I... really don't know what to say. I hate microsoft too (and think most sane people who buy/play games should), but if I could afford an XBox360 (which I can't for reasons most people here know already) the last thing that would get in my way was my microsoft hate. The fact that it's a microsoft product doesn't change that there's Vesperia, Lost Odyssey, Star Ocean 4 and so many other games I want so much and that are exclusive to their console. As much as I'd hate to go against "everything I believe in" and give M$ my money (and my hate doesn't go that far, mind you), if it's the only way to play these games I'd just go for it, not wait for a miracle to happen - and at this point, yes, sadly a PS3 port of Vesperia would be a miracle.

[LJkAze]

The problem is, I love the Tales series.  I own every US released game +ToD: DC, and Phantasia for PSP.  When I heard there was a Tales game coming out fot the next-gen system, you can imagine how stoked I was.

1/100% that it will release in ps3; I know your a PS3 fan but it best to buy a 360 because the chance of Vesperia coming to PS3 are slim to none. I don't get why people like PS3 seriously their selection of game library are bad; even their demo are crap; though I do have all 3 system i hardly play on them because my DS is keeping me occupied but if your a true game I say 360/Wii all the way for now. Though I am trying to get my hands on Valkyria Chronicle for PS3 because it look interesting ^_^

[Craymel]

Wasn't tov's production ceased? Or at least planned to be?

[pedrocasilva]

the chance of Vesperia coming to PS3 are slim to none. I don't get why people like PS3 seriously their selection of game library are bad; even their demo are crap; though I do have all 3 system

not really, it was leaked in roadmaps, occluded japanese portal sections and other kinds of slip ups.

Most likely a timed exclusive that will come to PS3 in time. Question lies wether it'll be a competent port or one of the "worse on PS3 than on X360" ports, but... changes that it'll come are not that slim.

I loathe Microsoft. And I vowed I would never have one in my home, instead relying on the PS3 and Wii for my entertainment purposes.  And I've been very satisfied.

Me too, but hey, if you don't want to give them money directly/contribute to sales you can always buy second hand, just a thought and I'm in no way telling you to buy one, in fact I myself have no plans to buy one. But... let's just say even if I dislike the brand there's always a way to go around it.

How much longer must I be patient before the God of Games smiles upon me?

Roughly one year after release, remember Eternal Sonata? The timed exclusivity deal was for a whole year, clearly. Plus, they most likely can't announce the PS3 version, say... now; even if they wanted. They should have to wait a few months to be able to do that too. (of course leaks/rumors/slips don't count ^^')

[Kevassa]

If you hate Microsoft´s Xbox360 for any reason, you should hate PS3.
It is the same shit on different shell

[ForceCube]

If you hate Microsoft´s Xbox360 for any reason, you should hate PS3.
It is the same shit on different shell

Eh... I guess his problem's more about the company who designed and produced the console than the console itself. That's my case, at least: Sony isn't nearly as much of a bunch of f*cking greedy assholes as M$ is, so at least for me there's not much reason to hate the PS3. But in his case the hate could be for both creator and creature.

[throughhim413]

That's my case, at least: Sony isn't nearly as much of a bunch of f*cking greedy assholes as M$ is, so at least for me there's not much reason to hate the PS3.

Really? I'm pretty sure they're both the same - corporations who want your money. If you ever convince yourself that companies like Sony or Microsoft are after anything but your money, you've made a mistake. They're both "greedy" and if they aren't, then they should be held accountable by their shareholders. They both want profits and any semblance of humanity should only be interpreted as a ploy to make more money. I don't own either system, so perhaps I'm speaking out of turn, but "hating" a company is just silly. If you don't like their products, don't buy them, but don't waste your time hating them. They just don't care.

[Kajitani-Eizan]

Sony isn't nearly as much of a bunch of f*cking greedy assholes as M$ is

wait what

[Craymel]

not really, it was leaked in roadmaps, occluded japanese portal sections and other kinds of slip ups.

Most likely a timed exclusive that will come to PS3 in time. Question lies wether it'll be a competent port or one of the "worse on PS3 than on X360" ports, but... changes that it'll come are not that slim.Me too, but hey, if you don't want to give them money directly/contribute to sales you can always buy second hand, just a thought and I'm in no way telling you to buy one, in fact I myself have no plans to buy one. But... let's just say even if I dislike the brand there's always a way to go around it.Roughly one year after release, remember Eternal Sonata? The timed exclusivity deal was for a whole year, clearly. Plus, they most likely can't announce the PS3 version, say... now; even if they wanted. They should have to wait a few months to be able to do that too. (of course leaks/rumors/slips don't count ^^')

I don't know if tov was planned as a timed exclusive though. I'm looking at the two boxes and one has an "Only On Xbox 360" label while the other does not. Guess which. But even then you could take bioshock into account. I guess tov going multi platform now depends on namcos whim... Which isn't very reliable by the way...

[Joseph]

Just wanted to say I love Microsoft.

IE7 > Firefox
Windows Media Player > WinAmp > iTunes

::runs for cover::

[Bartlebycs]

It's not the expense.  I did buy a PS3 after all, as well as spend over $200 on a PSP that was hackable.

My problem with the X-Box is all the little technical issues it seems to have.  Slow load times, the circle of death, tech support hates you, etc.  Plus you have to PAY for the online services.   IMHO, the PS3 is vastly superior because of it's lack of problems.  The only common malfunction they have is that niether is fully backwards compatible with the games from the previous systems.  And I can look past that.  I've never had any difficulty with my Sony that I can think of.

You guys have filled me with some hope though.  I can wait a year.  We'll see what happens.

[Kevassa]

IE7 > Firefox

My IE sucks, always crashed when i wanted to do something important and then I lost my info, Firefox lets me save my stuff when I crash (I crash regardless of them, though, it is a hardware problem of sorts, meh)

[FSLink]

Really? I'm pretty sure they're both the same - corporations who want your money. If you ever convince yourself that companies like Sony or Microsoft are after anything but your money, you've made a mistake. They're both "greedy" and if they aren't, then they should be held accountable by their shareholders. They both want profits and any semblance of humanity should only be interpreted as a ploy to make more money. I don't own either system, so perhaps I'm speaking out of turn, but "hating" a company is just silly. If you don't like their products, don't buy them, but don't waste your time hating them. They just don't care.

I agree with this. Hating a company is just silly. I'd understand a bit more if it were the Xbox days, where they didn't have much looking at game-wise....but Microsoft seems to have gotten their crap together for the 360 ...except the technical problems like RRoD...

IE7 > Firefox
Windows Media Player > WinAmp > iTunes

No to IE7. >_>
Yes to Windows Media Player. Though I only love it in the Windows 7 beta, otherwise I'm with Winamp.

[pedrocasilva]

IE7 > Firefox
Windows Media Player > WinAmp > iTunes

::runs for cover::

O_O you should yeah, such bad products...

(IE is just bad and I recommend media player classic instead of wmp for video and winamp 2.82 for music)

I don't know if tov was planned as a timed exclusive though. I'm looking at the two boxes and one has an "Only On Xbox 360" label while the other does not. Guess which. But even then you could take bioshock into account. I guess tov going multi platform now depends on namcos whim... Which isn't very reliable by the way...

That's a fair assumption, but one that doesn't mean that much, there's exclusive X360 titles that are exclusive and will be exclusive that lack that label (dead of alive), as well as titles who were time exclusives (like Bioshock) that had it. Star Ocean 4 had it too before release and then shipped without it.

Really? I'm pretty sure they're both the same - corporations who want your money. If you ever convince yourself that companies like Sony or Microsoft are after anything but your money, you've made a mistake. They're both "greedy" and if they aren't, then they should be held accountable by their shareholders. They both want profits and any semblance of humanity should only be interpreted as a ploy to make more money. I don't own either system, so perhaps I'm speaking out of turn, but "hating" a company is just silly. If you don't like their products, don't buy them, but don't waste your time hating them. They just don't care.

Of course, but then there's their attitude, and I can't stand M$'s. As for them not caring... They do, of course, hence why M$ employs publicity to clean their bad corporative monopoly image, for instance.

Now, let's turn this backwards, it's stupid for "you" who hate a company, to care too much about it and loose your time going around it, that's for sure. If you don't like their products they shouldn't matter that much in the first place, for you.

As for me... I judge stuff on a case to case basis, but I've migrated to MacOS for many reasons, one of them being that I didn't want to use windows and linux wasn't a option (I'm a Design student, I need stuff like Photoshop to run natively); I don't advise others to do that and I'll even say that I wouldn't have migrated to MacOS if I didn't like it better as a OS than windows. But I'm happy enough with it, so it's just the way I rolled or something along that lines. Do I care? no, not even checking Windows 7 at the moment; I have urges to scream each time I use Windows Vista in my father's laptop though, Windows 2000/XP were so much better.

[Shawn]

Slow load times, the circle of death, tech support hates you, etc.

I haven't had to talk to their customer support, but I bet the load times issues are due to the developer, not the system. Vesperia loaded fine for me, and almost was like a SNES game running from the HD.

I also think a lot of the RRoD cases are due to users putting the systems in a unventilated space, etc.