Tales of Vesperia PS3 port sells 147K copies on opening day

Godmars290 - 68 days 4 hours ago

The PS3 already had 3X the install base. Though the real insult will be if it sells 500K.

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AKNAA - 68 days 4 hours ago

It Took only one day to beat out 360's overall sales of this game?!
I know there are more PS3 owners in Japan, but its just the fact that this is a one year old port that out sold its original release on day one is Impressive!

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vhero - 68 days 2 hours ago

Proof that the Playstation is home of the JRPG something we knew at the beginning of this console war. MS were deluding themselves trying to take a part of this market and only hurting the consumer. Hopefully this finally shows jap developers the truth and they think twice before taking bribes from MS in future. I mean thanks to MS they even started porting to wii...

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wxer - 68 days 2 hours ago

look
if you want a game to sell on the 360
just make it a shooter ( FPS or 3rd-PS )
or just slap the name "halo" on it

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DigitalAnalog - 68 days 2 hours ago

Then it comes to no surprise with the JRPG games is selling less than stellar for the 360.

PS3 on the other hand is built for many genres, most popular would be platforming and RPG's, this article is just as relevant as why shooters are selling more on the 360.

As for this game, English VA is unnecessary for me, just give the original Japanese VA and English subs and it would retain the JRPG quality. Of course, I'm not shooting down the English VA, I prefer the game comes with all positive aspects to it.

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PROFIT - 68 days 1 hour ago

playstation exceeding expectations

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SaiyanFury - 68 days 1 hour ago

The Japanese identify with the PS brand with the newest and most current RPGs. I'm not calling the 360 version a failure, but most Japanese identify with the PS brand to deliver the RPGs they want. Most Japanese don't identify with XBox as a brand and most would identify with their homegrown PS brand. The truth is coming with games like Star Ocean 4 International and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. With every PS that comes, it takes time to make the RPGs that count on the system, the PS3 is no different. Now that the system is making ground, it doesn't surprise me that Japaneses publishers are making the move to the PS platform. It almost seems as if the XBox crowd is a test bunch for the finalised PS3 versions of games. I don't think the 360 is a bad area for games. But the Japanese have spoken.

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gaffyh - 68 days ago

I heard this thing that PS3 owners don't buy games, anyone know if it's true? :D

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PROFIT - 67 days 23 hours ago

havent you heard dude? the ps3 failed, sony abandoned playstation because of it/ S

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ultimolu - 67 days 23 hours ago

Again, may I ask why the hell these rpgs were on the 360 in the first place?

The Playstation brand sells rpgs. These developers should have been focusing on the PS3 Day One.

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Chris399 - 67 days 22 hours ago

Several vast cheques,

Passing hand to greedy hand,

Avarice eats sense.

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DaTruth - 67 days 21 hours ago

Give the 360 version some credit. It sold a lot for a beta! And 360 owners were good enough to pay to beta test it for us!

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Godmars290 - 67 days 21 hours ago

I'm certain JP 360 owners, who were being given no other option at the time, were realy happy about that.

That's why they were burning copies of the game.

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mfwahwah - 67 days 8 hours ago

I hate the new trend of calling 360 gamers "beta testers."

They're not all fanboys. They enjoy games just like every one of us. If you're going to talk trash, at least *try* to be creative about it :/

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Knightrid808 - 68 days 2 hours ago

One thing i call tell you for sure...OVER 9000!!!

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hay - 68 days 1 hour ago

Hah, this never gets old.

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PROFIT - 68 days 1 hour ago

1 million

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DaTruth - 67 days 21 hours ago

As many as they put on shelves!

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Godmars290 - 68 days 4 hours ago

More like you shouldn't bother with 360 build on a JRPG.

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jjl - 68 days 4 hours ago

Unless Microsoft is willing to hand out some nice cheques for development to reimburse the developers, then I don't think we'll be seeing many more "exclusive" jrpgs for the xbox.

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ceedubya9 - 67 days 23 hours ago

any exclusive RPGs anyway, unless they are made in house.

On another note, I love it how some people here like to knock on the 360 not being a good console for JRPGs......when other than Japan, JRPGs aren't doing all that great on the PS3 either.

With that out of the way, I'm hoping this comes over to the US. I already have the 360 version, but I'd be willing to give it another shot on PS3 with substantial extra content. Its a good game, and PS3 owners everywhere should have the chance to play it.

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blackpanther25 - 67 days 18 hours ago

JRPGS sell almost(if not the same) as much in the US as they sell in japan
PS3

Valkyria Chronicle: 220,000 japan 220,000 USA
http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

360 is the same
Tales of Vesperia: 170,000 JP 180,000 US
http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

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mfwahwah - 67 days 8 hours ago

"That the PS3 versions sell less than the Xbox 360 originals. For example, both Lost Planet and Eternal Sonata sale lower sales in Japan when their PS3 versions were released." - Kotaku

http://blog.livedoor.jp/htm...

It's not always true.

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jjl - 68 days 4 hours ago

What evidence do you have to prove your statement?

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Pope_John_Paul_II - 68 days 4 hours ago

the english voice actors of the game were told to come back to re-record their voices.

there's no doubt in my mind that it will come to the US.

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Sarcasm - 68 days 4 hours ago

That statement is about as accurate as

"Tales of Vesperia never coming to PS3"
"Star Ocean never coming to PS3"
"Eternal Sonata never coming to PS3"

It's not unlikely that it will come to the U.S.

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GamingSucksNow - 68 days 4 hours ago

Well I might as well show my luv by importing this baby.

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Godmars290 - 68 days 3 hours ago

If Namco doesn't bring it over, Atlus will. Even if Namco is wholly blind to the JRPG fanbase outside of JP, Atlus isn't.

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TheDesperado - 68 days 3 hours ago

And after seeing how PS3 sales just destroyed 360 LTD sales of the title within one day/one week, they're gonna want to put it on the winning HD console in Europe, the PS3. They'll get many more sales that way. In fact, just drop 360 support altogether. People will sell their 360s and buy PS3s and Namco doesn't have to waste money on Microsoft.

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Infernostew - 68 days 3 hours ago

Please do your research on why Symphonia was never released in the US for ps2 before you go ahead and using it as an example.

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supremacy - 68 days 3 hours ago

Though Namco Bandai hasn't officially made any announcements in regards to a US or European release, the English voice cast of Tales of Vesperia was recently called back to the studio to voice new scenes, imply that it will be released here.
http://www.ps3center.net/ne...

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Kamikaze135 - 68 days 3 hours ago

Please learn to read. I said it was never released in the US.

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Redempteur - 67 days 22 hours ago

Because the games on PS3 are region -free ...

thankfully the sales of TOS:dotnw and vesperia 360 will allow tales of graces and vesperia ps3 to make the trip as well ...

Just like eternal sorata ...

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mastiffchild - 67 days 20 hours ago

Kamikaze-why, then are the English speaking cast back in recording extra cutscenes? Tales came to all countries on the 360 and with the weak presence of that console in mainland EU(making a practically untouched market for Namco) I'm certain that, with this news, it is coming-before it I would have agreed it's unlikely but not now as it's a cert.

I know you want to deflate people looking forwards to the game on PS3 for some reason but it doesn't now look like PS3 owners in the west will be left out of the ToV party.

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Redempteur - 67 days 10 hours ago

He said they are back to record new artes / skits

SO it could be for tales of the world 2 on psp as well ...

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CaptainKratos - 68 days 4 hours ago

not me, not me.lesson learned.

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Kamikaze135 - 68 days 4 hours ago

A worldwide beta test for the actual game to be exclusive to Japan only was such a great thing, right? =X

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PirateThom - 68 days 4 hours ago

Who said this is exclusive to Japan?

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Kamikaze135 - 68 days 2 hours ago

Who said it wasn't?

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Murderdolls - 68 days 2 hours ago

Or Japanese people have PS3's and are RPG starved. I'm gonna go with my guess.

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wxer - 68 days 2 hours ago

"Or Japanese people have PS3's and are RPG starved. I'm gonna go with my guess."

so what you are trying to say is
the PS3 never got a RPG ?? at all ??
lol

just admit it
the only games that sels on the xbox360
is
a) shooters
b) any thing with the name "halo" on it

and thats it

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Murderdolls - 67 days 14 hours ago

Shooters as in FPS games? Because Gears of War isn't an fps but both games sold over 5 million units.

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TheDeadMetalhead - 67 days 9 hours ago

Just keep spinning... ;o

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TheDeadMetalhead - 67 days 9 hours ago

B-b-b-b-but PS3 owners don't play games!! DDDDDD=

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