Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 RPG hitting Japan and North America this August.
At Microsoft's Xbox 360 RPG Premiere 2008 press conference in Tokyo it has been announced that Namco Bandai's Tales of Vesperia, in development exclusively for Xbox 360, is to be released in Japan on August 7, 2008.
The game's debut will be supported by a new Xbox 360 hardware bundle that will include a copy of the game, a Premium Xbox 360 and a mystery bonus item. The set will be priced JPY 37,800 (£180).
North American gamers won't have to wait for the usually slow localisation to take place, with Namco confirming an August release. Sadly the same isn't true of Europe, where the game won't be appearing on store shelves until 2009.
Tales of Vesperia producer Yoshito Higuchi also announced that a playable demo will be appearing on XBL Marketplace later this month, although presumably this won't include European territories.
Trailer 118 Apr 2008
» Go to 's original post
» Go to 's original post
We always get treated like the less important consumer and it really needs sorting out.
We always get treated like the less important consumer and it really needs sorting out.
» Go to Bigun2007's original post
Personally I'd love to see just a PAL version of U.S.-released games but I guess the publishers don't think it's cost-effective, plus we'd miss out on a lot of Europe exclusive content (enhanced difficulty levels, localised dialect, bugs removed from US version, etc) that a lot of games come with.
» Go to 's original post
This right here is so much bullshit, I and oh so many other english speaking europeans shouldn't have to be punished because of other countries being retarded by dubbing all their shit and not having good education so their population doesn't learn a language that everyone living in a first world country should know good enough to be able to play a game in english at the age of 12.
» Go to 's original post
It's not even region unlocked, which speaks volumes of a company so hardup for money, it's decided to leave european to last to generate demand and then **** us in the ass with the prices.
lets face it, europeans pay twice as much because we find it "normal".. it truly is a scum system. Hope bandai are the next vitims of the "recession", that'll make me truly smile... :)
» Go to 's original post
I don't think i've ever seen a game translated to Swedish and Norwegian, not even the games from DICE, Grin and Starbreeze (swedish gamestudios).
About Vesperia, Why do we always have to wait like a year more than US? does it really take that long time to translate a game from english? and when it gets released here we have to pay double. that just sucks
» Go to 's original post
Why does UK and Scandinavia always have to wait because the rest of Europe can't read a word english? and yes, the nordic countries knows english very well.
at least when it comes to reading.
come on, it's not that hard to learn.
» Go to 's original post
Then we have the good old FFX, they used 1 year doing a crappy pal version with only english... seriously 1 year translating english into english.
» Go to 's original post
Seriously, if Vesperia and Symphonia II aren't released in Europe by 2010, then I'm buying and NTSC 360 and Wii and importing them both, release dates be damned!
» Go to 's original post
Post Comment
Login or register to reply to this topic
Create a new account or login to take part in this topic discussion.