I was going to consider that completely ridiculous until I remembered this IS Falcom. But then they seemed to have turned their backs on PC development, so unless XSEED's efforts manage to swing them back around I'd sooner expect a PS3 port.
Why would you think that? Unless SCEA gets in the way (very plausible, but they'd hopefully see this as akin to PSP to PS2 and not interfere) I'd think that actually pushes it from "very likely" to "catastrophic events would have to occur to prevent this now." Don't forget, Ys is one of the series that's done better for XSEED, so unless it's unusually expensive to release this I think it'd be one of their top priorities.
Do tell.
Well, I doubt it's as dead/doomed as some claim, but even operating under the assumption of a worst case scenario (that doesn't involve pulling the system or companies shuttering) niche publishers like XSEED would still support the system so long as there were games worthwhile and the audience was there at all, and we've seen that with just about every system, even the SNES had the original Harvest Moon a full year after the N64 debuted and everyone moved on to the next generation. It'd be the same here: support dries up and the system dies at the end of the year or even effectively earlier, but XSEED would still get the game out and Aksys and maybe Atlus would throw a few surprises.
Do you really have a reason to substantiate that beyond all the doom and gloom surrounding the Vita? It seems to be ignoring how game localizations, particularly from niche publishers, tend to work out.
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I really can't think of a reason why a hypothetical PS3 version would be less likely to be localized than a Vita version.
Right, that still disregards how niche publishers tend to operate however. They even put out a PSP game just a few weeks ago, albeit digitally, and are putting out a WII game in a few months. Plus I believe P4G did fairly well, and if that did well that shows this niche of games stands a chance there that bigger games couldn't find, not to the degree of being viable anyway.
Yeah, unless SCEA's gone completely idiotic about ports from handhelds (which does no one any good especially as the PS3/Vita gap is smaller than PS3/PSP) a PS3 version would probably seal it if anything. PS3's a current, viable console, and much of North America is more console focused (same for Europe too, but I don't believe the disparity is AS extreme), so it'd be safer to release on PS3. Really, if it weren't for some of SCEA's arbitrary crap I'd consider it a complete non-issue, and even then that's largely because it hasn't really been tested yet (though there are plenty of PS3/Vita simultaneous releases, which is comforting).
Awright I'll keep some hope then.
I really can't think of a reason why a hypothetical PS3 version would be less likely to be localized than a Vita version.
Personally I'd prefer a PC port though, I got used to playing Ys at 120 FPS with immaculate IQ
Yeah, Tom said about six more games to announce after Pandora's Tower was revealed, so they still have about that many left to go. Probably minus one if you include that Suda game.
