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Valkyria Chronicles III Not Coming to US and Europe

The Valkyria Chronicles series was praised for being bold and fresh strategy RPGs that were both beautiful to look at and fun to play. Fans of the series will be disappointed to know that Sega is not planning to localize the third game, Valkyria Chronicles III: Unrecorded Chronicles, for North American and European markets.

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jc485734592d ago (Edited 4592d ago )

f@#$ activision! they ruined the US market.

Edit: It's really sad!!! Stop buying Call of Duty for god sakes! There are far better games out there.

maniacmayhem4592d ago

How did Activision ruin it?

Valkyria Chronicles was a great game but it wasn't successful enough for Sega to bring it back to the ps3, which is why it went to psp. I can only assume the sequel did terrible in the west which is why its only coming to psp in Japan.

Sega should at least make it a psn downloadable game.

tarbis4590d ago

What in the blue hell you talking about? It sold a mil already. The 2nd didn't even sold half of what the 1st did.
Sega made a terrible mistake by putting it on PSP.

tiffac0084590d ago

VC1 actually sold way better in the west (NA to be exact) than it did in Japan.

So it was confusing for a lot of fans to why the sequels where on the PSP than on the PS3 since the game never really took off in Japan.

Sega has been known to make bad decisions when it comes to their franchises, that subsequently led to the series demise like Sakura Taisen, Shenmue, Panzar Dragoon just to name a few.

maniacmayhem4590d ago

@tarbis
How long has VC1 been out and it has only reached 1 million? That is not profitable to Sega when you consider marketing and production cost.

@tiffac
it may have sold better in NA but it still didn't sell well enough for Sega to make a profit on it.

--Onilink--4592d ago

im sorry, but its really stupid to blame activision for this.... its not like they are the ones that buy the games, PEOPLE make the choice about what to buy

jc485734592d ago (Edited 4592d ago )

I think developers are underestimating the consumers. Developers believe we like shooters, so they constantly throw in these shooters right in front of our faces. This explains why we buy games blindly because we can't see!!! Activision is blinding/hypnotizing the consumers just like Hitler did in the past!!!

--Onilink--4591d ago (Edited 4591d ago )

well the problem is, we can also see people supporting in great ways products that are not FPS, like Dark Souls, Assasins Creed, Batman, Heavy Rain etc. Its not like people passed on the 1st Valkyria Chronicles because of COD, COD wasnt even that big of a deal when VC came out, and i dont think they were even released that close to each other and yet people didnt support it enough to warrant releasing the next games on PS3

Still, i do feel the PS3 market has changed a lot and a sequel would do much better these days, but its not the same for me to say i think it would, than for a developer that has to put millions of dollars on the line.

Anyway, if there is anyone to blame for this, its the early PS3 adopters who didnt bought this game when it came out and probably some very poor marketing from SEGA, simple as that. Activision has nothing to do with this

JAMurida4592d ago

It wasn't Activision, if anything it was the "mass". The people who line up every time to buy the next CoD or "next big shooter". Companies, gaming sites, everything out there will always do whatever it takes to appeal to those certain people. Notice how a site like Gametrailers will always cover their website in CoD/BF3/Gears3 banners, but you wouldn't see anything on something like a JRPG, one video if your lucky. I think in their releases of September video they didn't even have WKC 2 in there.

Oh well though, what can you do......

radphil4592d ago

"It wasn't Activision, if anything it was the "mass". The people who line up every time to buy the next CoD or "next big shooter"."

It's like saying you don't blame the drug user for people constantly going to them for drugs. :p

The blame falls on both sides.
Activision for over-saturation of the market, and the "masses" that keep getting it...

--Onilink--4591d ago

what has an oversaturated FPS market has to do with a Strategy game that was released 3 years ago? barely 1 month after COD 4 had launched, its not like in 2008 the market was saturated... and yet people didnt bought the game

Abriael4592d ago

There's still a bit of hope left. Sega's seriously doing a disservice to their fans here.

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ClimateKaren4592d ago

Let me know when they're making another one for PS3, then I'll give a shit about it coming to NA.

Baka-akaB4592d ago

precisely . You do a great game , we support it , and you decide to continue a sequel that doesnt look as appealing on psp ... i sure didnt follow them there and borrowed the umd instead to see it was was worth the move .

Still a great game , with some interesting changes , but not what i want .

Crystallis4592d ago

Correct. they release VC2 for the psp in north america then they wonder why is didnt sell so well. Release it on the ps3 then we can talk.

--Onilink--4592d ago

there is a reason why the 2nd and 3rd went to PSP, because VC1 sold like shit on NA....

JAMurida4592d ago

I would guess it's because they didn't have the money to support doing another PS3 version.

DragonKnight4592d ago

This is a huge problem with Japanese developers especially. They are notorious for disjointing stories by making games in a series on different platforms. Take a look at Kingdom Hearts for example.

KH1 - PS2
KH: Chain of Memories, which is a story bridge. - Handheld
KH2 which continues from where CoM left off - PS2
Then there's the 358/2 days or whatever on handhelds, Birth by Sleep on handhelds. No one knows if KH3 is going to be on consoles or where the story is going to pick up.

Same thing with VC. First game on PS3. A very refreshing RPG title when the PS3 desperately needed more RPG's. Was well received, especially for a non-FF SRPG or a non-Disgaea SRPG. A fanbase was made for it, people were hoping a part 2 would grace consoles in the future. But no, Sega decided they didn't want to spend the money on a console version, decided to go handheld cheap (in development price anyway) and disjointed the story of the series by placing the sequel on PSP.

When people get used to a game, especially the first of a series, appearing on consoles; they expect it will only get bigger and better ON CONSOLES. Not smaller on handhelds. Japanese devs are notoriously bad for this. Look at Crapcom and Monster Hunter.

A lot of companies don't understand that sometimes you have to put yourself out there, take a risk. That's why From Software is loving this gen. Demons' Souls had no faith put into it by Sony, but the risk of releasing it was taken, people LOVED it, and now we have Dark Souls which is an awesome game. From Software, a relatively small development company, struck gold with their risk and are laughing.

Sega, a development pretty much as old as video games, are deciding to not take the risk and blame the userbase. It's not our fault no one bought VC2. You put it on PSP when we were expecting it on consoles. The Japanese audience may be obsessed with mobile gaming, but the rest of the world has a more balanced approach to it. We want to see games completely fleshed out in visual quality as well as content. And I'm sorry, but consoles and PC will always be able to have bigger and better games than a handheld. So don't blame us for expecting big things and being given a handheld title and told "buy this or we won't bring the next game to you." And funny enough, the 3rd game is also on handhelds. It's like Sega doesn't want money.

Kishin4592d ago (Edited 4592d ago )

I Need to mention one thing: Dreamcast

Sega's known for horrible bad marketing decisions and this is why DC died to the PS2...

CDbiggen4592d ago

@Kishin

The Dreamcast didn't fail. We failed the Dreamcast.

In all seriousness though. This sucks.

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The Best Games You Can't Officially Buy Anymore

From Xfire: "It's been estimated that roughly half of the video games ever released on the market can no longer be downloaded or purchased. Whether this is exactly correct is not the point. Rather, we think that either way, the video game industry, as a whole, has done a terrible job at preserving video games and making older titles available to play for future generations."

Terry_B1083d ago

You can play all of these games still lol. The headline is just misleading. Funny is that there is not one game in the list that you really can't play anymore due to it being online only games.

CorndogBurglar1083d ago (Edited 1083d ago )

Its not about games you can't play. Its about games you can't officially buy anywhere.

Terry_B1083d ago

The author changed it actually

Army_of_Darkness1082d ago

Who needs to buy these games anyway? Most of them are average at best and won't really be missed.

littletad1083d ago (Edited 1083d ago )

It says buy, not play though. You can't purchase Deadpool or the Simpsons game anymore. Unless you have a 360 for the simpsons or a physical copy of deadpool, or purchased it before it was delisted.

shuvam091083d ago

Look at his comment. It's from 9 hours ago. Article goes back 4 hours. Title might have been changed after realising the mistake

isarai1083d ago

One you actually legit cannot play AT ALL is Noby Noby Boy. I miss turning my brain off and messing around in that game, was so psyched to re-download it when i rebought a ps3 slim, but you cant, even if it's in your downl library, along with a few other obscure PS3 games i had.

NecrumOddBoy1083d ago

The original memes to the moon game. Loved NNB on PS3.

FreeckyCake1083d ago

I would replace Transformers Devastation with War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron tho.

Knightofelemia1083d ago (Edited 1083d ago )

Transformers Devastation was good but not as good as Fall and War of Cybertron they should be on the list. SH 2 I can play any time I want since it came free in a $10 Xbox I bought used. The Simpsons Arcade I have on my PS3 surprised the Xmen Arcade game is not on this list or the Turtles arcade game either.

CorndogBurglar1083d ago

I had the X-Men arcade game on my 360. I don't know if Xbox Live is still a thing or not, and of it is, I don't know of they still sell X-Men. But it was deinitely on Xbox Live at some point.

Knightofelemia1083d ago (Edited 1083d ago )

If you had X-Men before you can redownload it from your transaction history on the 360 Microsoft did not castrate the 360 from online. That is how I was able to redownload the old TMNT arcade game to my 360 you can't play it on XB1 or Series X but you can still access it for sure on the 360.

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Valkyria Chronicles 3's Riela Getting New Figure Reproducing VC Duel's Illustration

The Valkyria Chronicles series holds a special place in the hearts of many gamers, so its heroines continue to get occasional figures.

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TheColbertinator1292d ago

Unfortunately we still don't have an English language release

Samus7071292d ago

My condolences to my brothers in Australia.

NukeDaHippies1291d ago

What....Reila sucks, they shoulda done Imca instead

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A beginner's guide to Valkyria Chronicles

The world of Valkyria Chronicles is more accessible than ever, making it a great time to get into the hybrid strategy franchise. But where should players start? Check out a guide for getting the most out of your time in Europa.

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