Namco announces new Tales entries for Wii, PSP, and DS

Posted Jul 20, 2007 at 2:11PM by QJ Staff Listed in: News, Games Tags: Japan, Namco Bandai, Nintendo, PS2

Namco Bandai had a press conference in Japan, and one of the topics covered was the future of the successful video game franchise Tales. According to them, four separate projects are currently in development with three of them being original entries. The last one, on the other hand is a port of a PlayStation 2 Tales title.

DS. Nintendo DS owners will have a new game titled Tales of Innocence and should be available this coming winter.

Wii. Wii owners can look forward to a new game as well. No title has been given but it was mentioned by Namco Bandai that it is basing it on Tales of Symphonia.

PSP. PlayStation Portable owners will also be getting some Tales fun - complete with a Three-Line Linear Motion for its battle system. The developer is planning to port PS2 game Tales of Rebirth which was originally released back in 2004. But critics, be silent! Yes, this is "just" a port, but PSP owners shouldn't sulk because Rebirth was truly a good game.

It was also said that the new Tales of Rebirth will have wide screen support and a new gallery mode. It should be available next year, but no concrete release date was mentioned.

PS2. The last game is for PS2 and is a new game as well that is based from Tales of Destiny.

It's not yet clear if these titles will make it outside of Japan.

Update: After this article was posted, we came across more details about Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk for the Wii and Tales of Symphonia: Innocence for the DS. You can read that article here at QJ.NET.

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# first — Guest 2007-07-20 10:10

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# first — Guest 2007-07-20 10:11

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# I am the Best! — Guest 2007-07-20 10:15

I am the best!

# First Square, now Namco. DS is "lead platform" for Tales games. WTF Sony!!! — Guest 2007-07-20 11:39

As a PSP owner and fan, I'm starting to notice a disturbing trend regarding PSP support and this just takes the cake. First DS gets Dragon Quest IX (the next true sequal to DQVIII), but now Namco is shifting their focus to the DS and making it their lead platform for DS games. Why is Sony letting 3rd party developers get away? Or is it because Sony is trying but can't do anything about it? Is it really true that developers aren't fond of the PSP because the software doesn't sell? This is a kick in the face because Tales of Symphonia is one of the greatest RPG's to hit last generation and if DS is the lead platform, then the "top-tier" Tales programmers (not the 3rd-tier that is usually designated to portable games) is going to be designing the next Tales game.

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/gemaga1985/13655183.html

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Translated by NeoGAF:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?s=652d5412ec851a9d0214219cfffd22b7&t=172750&page=2

At today's Tales press conference, the series producer announced that the Nintendo DS will be the lead platform for the Tales series going forward.

Why? Because the Tales series means:

- "A drama containing deep themes"

- "Sounds and visuals that showcase anime FMV, theme songs and voice"

- "The unique Linear Motion Battle System"

...and the DS is "more than capable of this Tales-ness"

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# Sad — Guest 2007-07-20 13:27

It's just a sales issue, DS has almost twice as many units in the market as PSP (not considering how many PSP users pirate games) so it would make sense if developers start leaning towards it (especially since the 120 million selling PS2 is essentially dead).

I wouldn't be surprised if we see even more major releases on the DS until the home consoles build up a few more sales.

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