Namco... you sneaky bastards...

Shino · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:10 am Post subject: Namco... you sneaky bastards...

Seems as if Namco is using funds given to them by MS for timed exclusivity to create the "superior" (according to the article) PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia.

Apparently ... they aren't the first Japanese developer to do such a thing either...

This after Namco is already getting a lot of crap in Japan right now just b/c of the release of this game on PS3.

Many consumers are saying that they want the game to never show up b/c the bought a 360 just for this game and would not have if they would have known about the PS3 version before hand.

Interesting... Namco isn't looking very good to Japan right now... Probably not MS either.

http://www.destructoid.com/namco-using-microsoft-money-to-fund-ps3-vesperia--148884.phtml

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Didn't they also do something similar with Eternal Sonata? Not as big a pull as a Tales of game but still taking the piss rather alot.

Shino · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject:

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Money is money. If I pay you $5 for washing my car then you buy soap to wash someone else's car next week, am I paying you to wash their car too? Did Namco take the specific dollar bills M$ gave them and put them in a box and then use THOSE bills later to pay the programmers? M$ got their exclusivity that they paid for. After that, it's a done deal. I wish all of the companies would quit this exclusivity shit. If you want good exclusives, start making good games yourself aka Nintendo. M$ and Sony make some of the worst cookie cutter crap on the market (not referring to the companies they buy ala Bungie). Remember the 989 games?

Now you got the same crap happening at retail (Gamestop, most notably) with the presale exclusives. Most are crap anyway (gold gun, blue t-shirt, etc). Why can't companies just make good games? I would love to have someone pull off run of games like Activision & Electronic Arts did for the C64 or Tecmo for the NES. Since the release of the PS it's been more and more 3rd party dependance and less homegrown stuff. Look how Sonic has become a mockery of himself, Sony has gone thru countless games looking for a mascot, and M$ has simply thrown money around paying people off instead of even trying.

Bring me back the good old days of gaming.

Shino · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:36 am Post subject:

I think those days are gone.

Yeah money is definitely money.
What's funny about this is where it started was from a developer that said they basically planned it out this way... which is odd to think about at first. Make sense... but just sounds like a weird thing to say.