A port of the game for the PlayStation 3 was announced in April 2009. The port features full voice acting, containing nearly twice as much voice work as the original voice script, which covers previously unvoiced cutscenes in the 360 version. The game also features various new characters, has Flynn as a permanent playable character, and adds a new playable character in the form of Patty Fleur.[31] Speaking on why the port was being developed, a developer who worked on Vampire Rain, said that companies like Namco Bandai first developed for the Xbox 360 due to superior funding and development support when compared to Sony, then porting to PS3 with minimal effort so they could recoup development costs and add features that needed to be cut from the original game.[32]
The port was released on September 17, 2009.[33] It was later re-released as part of Sony's budget series release on August 2, 2012.[34] Speaking in January 2010, Namco Bandai announced that they had no plans to release the port overseas.[35] Later that year, Yuri's Englsih voice actor Troy Baker said that he had been recording new English dialogue for the PS3 port.[36] A report from a Namco Bandai employee sparked speculation that the reason behind the lack of a localization was due to a deal with Microsoft to keep the game as an Xbox 360 exclusive in western territories. Later, she retracted this statement, apologizing for creating false impressions.[37] Series producer Hideo Baba later said that the main factor in this decision was the strain put on the team with the simultaneous release of the original, meaning a Japan-exclusive release was chosen to lessen the burden. This also coincided with poor timing marketing feedback for the series in western territories.[29]
