Namco Bandai “evaluating the possibility” of bringing Tales west

Scrawl: "After a flood of probably over two-thousand wall posts on Namco Games’ official Facebook page, the company has finally responded to fans’ pleas. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the answer fans were hoping for. Rather than an confirmation of the series' western arrival, Namco Bandai’s instead issued the following."

[NYC_Gamer]

they should bring this series out in the western markets for all the jrpg fans....

[Dragun619]

Whats there to evaluate Namco Bandai?
I mean we already have a petition for tales of games for the west.
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Fans already did a major comment assault on your facebook page resulting with over two thousand wall posts.

There's clearly a demand for Tales of Games, So I don't see whats the hold up at all especially with Vesperia, The game is mostly been localized from the Xbox360 version. If you don't want to bring it over to the west, at least offer it to other publishers like Xseed or Nisa, who already expressed that would be happy to localize the games if given the chance.

Bring "Tales of" Games to West, Namco Bandai, that's all your fans ask of you.
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[nickjkl]

yes because 2000 people is going to offset the balance it costs to bring the game to america

[Da One]

Niche JRPG's sell more than 2,000 copies especially the ones localized by Atlus, NISA, and XSEED.

Tales has a nice fanbase stateside, Namco only bring over correctly for profit.

[Army_of_Darkness]

for my PS3!..... hahaha! that rhymed;)

[nickjkl]

oh wow you guys dont know anything about buisness

if you spend the money to translate it copy it localize it and that cost is not off set by the number of people buying the game then its useless to even begin the process in the first place

just look at the sales tales on average sells .80 million copys in japan compared to other jrpgs which sell at least 2 million in japan
now each time a jrpg is released in america it sells less than it does in japan

basically
.80 million avearge of tales copys sold in japan
americans always buys less copys of jrpgs
meaning less than .80million in sells

its basically a gamble since i dont really know how much it costs to bring a rpg from japan to amerca

[smilydude13]

Namco Bandai has been pissing me off a lot lately.

No Ace Combat and Vesperia for my PS3?

No good Gundam games? Only Dynasty Warriors Gundam? Never going to localize them?

...WELL FUCK YOU TO NAMCO.

[kingnick]

Namco have decided to put their interests (regional timed/permanent exclusives for money) ahead of their fans wants so I will respond in kind by making sure Tales of Vesperia (x360) is the last Namco game I buy.

Graphics aside ToV wasn't better than ToS in any other area.

Most of their franchises are stagnating or getting worse so it isn't a hard decision to boycott them.

[ClownBelt]

Well if they don't want to spend a single cent on releasing it on the West then let other publisher do the work? Quit with the BS and excuses Namco.

[Stunt]

Tales PS3 needs to come west!

[Girlgamer116]

Namco Why :(

[Stealth20k]

So this means that there was never any chance of the titles coming over until maybe now.....

Namco sure is good at patronizing rpg fans.

insert foot in ass of namco

[RandomGamer]

They won't release tales games over here since there too busy making crappy dragonball z games.

[skip2mylou]

or instead just give us Japanese voicing with english subs and itll all be fine you douches

[Obama]

I blamed 360 fans for not buying TOV and now Namco is wondering if it's really worth it to bring TOV again to the west.

[TheColbertinator]

@Obama

Its not our fault that Vesperia was weak.Its just Namco getting lazy this gen.

[-MD-]

I really enjoyed Vesperia but I mean the game doesn't exactly scream sales.

Not to mention I saw ZERO marketing for it on 360.

[silvacrest]

no thats not it, vesperia is a excellent game

360 owners just didn't buy the game because they are not into RPGs, the sales for ME2 are proof enough and that is practically a TPS now

[Gue1]

but the X360 it's the miracle boy, it can sell ice to a penguin!

[jack_burt0n]

just do a limited asian subtitled release and let ppl import it.

edit:hurry up u fuc*erz

[Stunt]

This is making heavy rounds on the Facebook page. Thought I'd share it here.

[Stealth20k]

Namco are patronizing F's arent they

[smilydude13]

How about some of those good Gundam games? ...No? Never? Only Dynasty Warriors gundam games?

Dammit!

[ranmafandude]

just bring them jrpgs over to the west. i want to try some tales games never bought one lol. it would look nice in my ps3 game library.

[nefertis]

Namco Bandai is full of rtards.

[SixTwoTwo]

I think they should follow in Yakuza 3's footsteps and just release them with English subs. At least that way they could satisfy the fan base and still turn a minor profit.

[rambler]

I'm evaluating how lame Namco is being at the moment. And the verdict is..... VERY.

[Knightofelemia]

The Last Namco game I baught was Tales of Vesperia for the 360 and Tales of Symphonia 2 for the Wii and Xenosaga 3 for my PS2. The demand is there for the game people want the game people love the game. Hell give the game to Square and they will publish it over here hell give it to Sony and they will publish it aswell. I thought in this day and age most developers want to make money off a title releasing it for the PS3 would push up the sales figures I wonder why Namco is scarred of making some extra cash for the Tales game. There aren't that many great JRPGS out this console generation and Tales of Vesperia was one of the best ones I have played. By the time they announce Tales of Vesperia for the PS3 the hype will slowly fade away because people are playing other titles like Ar Tonelico 3. And when Namco does bring Tales to the PS3 they will wonder why the sales sucked on that title because the hype will slowly fade away.

[xino]

don't bring the game outside Japan then you won't have our money!
so enjoy the recession and trash sales!

[seifer085]

vesperia damn it!

[hilliat2783]

The problem JRPG's sell like crap in comparison to there PS3 version. If Japanese devs start pushing there titles more towards the PS3 then they would see much better sells. I know I will get disagrees but some times the truth hurts.

[KingNintendoFanboy]

I don't really want this series, but they should bring it out here for the fans. I know how being a fan in that situation feels.

[GigaGaia]

That PS3 exclusive Tales games is likely to be the only one localized. Shame, I also want to see Graces =(