AbyssalChronicles: "Bandai Namco has announced today that, unfortunately, both long-running mobile card games Tales of Kizna and Tales of Card Evolve will be terminating its service this September."
Siliconera: In our exclusive interview with Tales series producer Hideo Baba, we asked the venerable producer on his thoughts on remaking past Tales games, selecting titles to localize, and expanding the series into smartphone territory.
Might be a good idea to hire some more staff then.
Vita versions and the localization of the Tales games in general are often requested to no avail - and they'd sell like hotcakes.
It's possible they just don't want to trust their games to anyone but their own people - that's a common practice in a lot of media fields.
That said, I agree; that's a weak excuse when you're getting worth-while offers. Good point.
That's too bad. Nice to have a reason behind it though, I always thought they just hated us or something .
Hmm, is that mean Namdai higher ups doesn't want to give more budget / staff for Tales franchise? If yes, than it's ironic considering Tales are one of the most popular franchise that Namdai ever have.
Don't need staff. That's what contract workers are for. Give it to another company to localize. There are plenty out there that would love some work I'm sure.
I think Namdai doesn't mind if another company wants to localize Tales. But the problem is: those company still need Tales / Namdai programmer to do the coding. So just like Baba said in the article: they don't have enough staff to do it. Imho, that's mean Namdai doesn't want to risk more money to hired new staff for Tales franchise and make it more popular in the west.
Btw, Xseed also had this problem when they tried to localize Grand Knight History. They already finished the translation, but Vanillaware doesn't have programmer to do the coding because they're still busy finishing Dragon's Crown and Muramasa Rebirth. In Vanillaware case i still understand it because Vanillaware is a small company with only twenty or thirty staff in their division. But in Namdai case, well, that's questionable...
Tales of Kizna is a crossover game with characters from the entire series including Jude and Millia from Tales of Xillia plus Ludger from Tales of Xillia 2.
AbyssalChronicles.com: "It has been 17 years since the release of Tales of Phantasia in 1995. Today, Namco Bandai has announced that as of December 4, 2012, the entire Tales of Series has reached 15 million shipments worldwide."
is that all !!! really dispointed all this titles and spin off just 15 millions !!
Is it wrong for developers to celebrate in just making a profit and lasting this long in the gaming industry?
Humble pie has the best taste when you are the one holding the fork I guess.....
You have to take to account that some of these games have yet to make it over to the west. Also the series although pretty popular is still a niche series overall.
The highest selling games of the series (Symphonia & Destiny) has only done about 1 million each & one of them came out in 1997.
Not overly impressive but not bad either considering some of this series is Japanese only and most of the fan base is in Japan. At least they are bringing over Xilla over to North America and EU next year. Between this and Ni no Kuni I am looking forward to next year for some RPG fun.
I've always hoped, if they didn't want to do full on localizations, they'd start to make region free or digital copies that have have subtitles. There aren't enough games like Demon's Souls, where if they're taking forever on the localization, that I can just import instead.
I'd be curious how much it'd cost to hire a few people to run translations, heck hire the people out there doing fan translations.
They could also allow 3rd party publishers like XSeed to localize for them. I think that would be less expensive for the developer. ^^
