SquareEnix announces new titles (Star Ocean 4, The Last Remnant + more)

You think so? I'd say there's a world of difference between what you'd expect X360 and PS3 to do in Japan. Xbox is at its expected level, PS3 is way under it...

 

The two consoles have completely different goals and expectations in JPN.

360 sales are bad, but Japan has always beena lost cause for them, you can hardly call continued failure 'catostrophic'

PS3 on the other hand, has always thrived in JPN, getting outsold 8:1 by nintendo, is pretty damn horrible given it's history in that region.

Apples and oranges. If 360 was selling 50k/month, that would have to be considered a success really. For PS3 to do it, is completely underperforming.

 

PS3 problem in Japan is a bit hard to understand as the price is already lower than outside Japan. Golden week made hardly a blip on the radar with Sony only game launch for that period being Madden (EA)...... You have to wonder why Sony could not put out a better game for that week and let Nintendo with a free home run.

 

That would be very interesting

Glad to see Amano's work too there in that pic. Or isnt that Amano's artwork?

 

Here are the news from Square party. Borrowed from GAF:

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- Final Fantasy IV DS Official Site: http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ff4ds/
- Two demos for CCFFVII: One against Genesis, and one against Bahamut
- All FFXIII media are in the Closed Theatre
- "The 3rd birthday" is listed on the programming for the closed theatre... the mystery thickens
- FF4 DS trailer, but no game footage. Tokita is producing this time instead of Tanaka (rightfully so) and a professional animator is doing the storyboards
- FFCC Wii trailer, looks like Zelda
- FFXII International job classes are: Red, Black, White Mages, Knight, Monk, Breaker, Time Mage Warrior, Shikaree, Ulan, Samurai, Engineer, Archer
- DQIX trailer, looks great
- Crisis Core FFVII official release date in Japan: 13th Sept 2007
- FFVIIACC has no date yet
- Sephiroth is a playable character in Dissidia
- Parasite Eve 3 on Mobiles (FOMA)
- New FFXI Expansion: Althena's Holy Soldiers
- New Kingdom Hearts project is underway, but nothing revealed... until TGS
- FFXIII and Versus XIII trailers are extended versions of the Jump Festa ones, Agito's is all new
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So far its good. Well see what will they show on second day...

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! *pulls a tantrum*

I was hoping for a Parasite Eve game on next gen *cough*PS360*cough* consoles

 

I thought exactly the same thing

 

DAMN Right!!!!!

PS3 or 360!

man I want to play that as a next gen game!!!

 

Honestly, out of all the new announcements, I'm the most excited about the Star Ocean 1 & 2 remakes. Those are two classic JRPGs that have been totally under-appreciated in the US.

 

The Last Remnant website is now open (with nothing at the moment)
http://na.square-enix.com/remnant/index2.html

 

http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2007/1166.html

 

*resurrect*

GameTrailers has a small banner saying that there will be a "World Exclusive" footage of Last Remnant tonight on GameHead @1am

(could that mean earlier time for other timezones, directv users, etc? )

Im guessing it might surface on online sites before it actually comes on GameHead. And ofc, it'll be up on GT soon enough

 

Last Remnant - PS3 version Release Date TBA

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/899/899543p1.html

US, August 18, 2008 - Famitsu.com posted a correction today regarding a Last Remnant release date recently issued in one of its sister publications.

Famitsu PS3 Vol.XIII DKΣ3713 EX.Report, a special Japan-only magazine published by Enterbrain Mook, has the PS3 version of the multiplatform RPG listed as 11/20. This date is actually for the Xbox 360 version of the game. The PS3 version is still TBA, both in Japan and throughout the world.

This special publication from Enterbrain is full of new details regarding Final Fantasy XIII and other titles from the DKΣ3713 event, so expect to hear more from it shortly.

Who cares what date it is, its still coming to the Black Mammoth

 

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_7353_en.html

 

After reading all the recent reviews and hearing impressions form podcasts, I certainly don't ... I think this game is not for me. Particularly the 1up FM discussion this week, by someone who played the game from start to end (60+ hours) turned me off of the game probably for good.

The only question that remains for me now is how it got such high praise from Famitsu (10/10/9/9 iirc).

 

Famitsu sorta sells its scores. I bitch a lot about game reviews, blah blah, but here they're really meaningless. They're essentially a hype barometer. I don't subscribe to Famitsu at all, but the advice I've seen is that if you want to know the meat of a game, pay attention to the multi-page previews in Famitsu, not the reviews.

 

Well, either it works, or it aligns with Japanese tastes, because the game has sold 100.000 copies on 360 this first week (according to Media Create).

 

Not really a shocker, is it? A Square-Enix game doing well on its first week in Japan? Especially after Tales of Vesperia did 101k? It does align with Japanese tastes to a fair extent.