posted this on another forum but I'll post it here as well:
It's a crying shame, they've released some of the best tales games ever recently but screwed them up through bad management.
Vesperia, Hearts and Graces should have been surefire successes based on their content, however Hearts wasted a ****load of cash on a CG version which sold less than 10k copies. But wait Sieggy, you say, surely the CG version was made in a stupid attempt to appeal to the west? I'd have thought so too, but the game was never released in the west.
Vesperia was another great game, but initially making it 360 exclusive hurt its sales in japan, then the release in europe was delayed nearly a full year, by which time everyone knew about the PS3 version and many people in europe, myself included, opted to wait for a PS3 version they never decided to release, despite having it 80 percent translated already, damaging european sales on 360 and getting zero western sales on ps3
Finally Graces, another great little game, but again no western release and the profits they made from the japanese release were quickly ****ed away when they had to replace every copy of the game due to bugs
Finally and most damningly is the fact that it's nigh on impossible to be a dedicated tales fan these days, even if you wanted to buy every game they release you'd need to buy a DS, PSP, Wii and 360 or PS3, not everyone has the money or the will to do so, it just makes maintaining a fanbase more difficult than it needs to be
