No Star Ocean: The Last Hope for PS3 |
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| BY Se Ajala Jun. 14th, 2008 | More on: |
One of Square Enix’s most anticipated and well known RPGs not named Final Fantasy will be skipping the PS3 by the looks of things. When Star Ocean: The Last Hope was announced for the Xbox 360 earlier this week, Square Enix left a lingering feeling that the game could maybe come to the PS3 at a later date as well, with producer Yoshinori Yamagishi saying “We may release it, we may not.”
But in a recent chat with Yahoo Japan’s financial site, a representative from Square said that there were “no plans” to release the game on PS3, which comes as somewhat of an open-handed slap to PS3 owning fans of the series. Not just because the original games were on Sony’s systems, but also because the debut trailer for this iteration of the series appeared early in its life cycle on the PSP.
Though looking at this with some clarity, it would seem we simply have another round of the “exclusive/timed exclusive” game on our hands — having “no plans” at the moment doesn’t mean they won’t suddenly develop plans in the future. And since a PS3 version hasn’t been denied, it’s pretty safe to conclude that Microsoft has simply secured another timed exclusive.
But for now at least, 360 owners have Star Ocean: The Last Hope all to themselves. The game is due to drop at some time next year.
[See also: Star Ocean: The Last Hope gallery]
June 14th, 2008
at 7:15 am
I haven’t played a JRPG since Final Fantasy 7. In fact thats the only JPRG i ever played; so you can see how much a fan i am of JRPGs.
This does look pretty cool however. Maybe because I love epic futuristic space stories so much though.
June 14th, 2008
at 6:12 pm
Yeah, the screens are mighty impressive on this one. I think even non-rpg gamers will need to take notice, this one looks like a keeper.
July 27th, 2008
at 12:34 pm
outrageous, i hate the xbox 360 and will never own one, and now xbox is taking all of the exclusive titles away from ps3, I vote we burn microsoft to the ground if they dont stop cockblocking the ps3
November 8th, 2008
at 3:00 am
I’m sure it’s only a timed exclusive.
matt, grow the fuck up.
November 19th, 2008
at 10:40 pm
omfg!! yo diz game luks way better dan da last one!!
im in luv w diz game da last game was fukin lng i pass it 3 times.. nd everytime it was more dan 140 hours playing!! diz game is so gud .. gud graphics da stoy line is really gud.. i recomended nd im w matt in diz xbox should stop cockblokin ps3… i hope one day halo decide no halo 4 xbox nd now 4 ps3 so da xbox owners can feel how we feel!! fukin microsoft
February 1st, 2009
at 10:31 am
Come on Sony, there’s a reason why I bought your PS3 and that was to buy your JRPG games >_<!
February 26th, 2009
at 12:52 pm
White knight = PS3 JRPG goodness. Squenix doesn’t really care about us, so we can’t expect much from them. Don’t blame Sony for not resorting to paying tons of money just so 360 users can’t have the game first, they like their devs to be loyal to them and not their pocketbooks, which is really what Squenix has been loyal to all along. They only care about the money, and they’ve made it VERY apparent. And, it will almost undeniably come out on the PS3 later on, so just be patient.
February 27th, 2009
at 2:32 pm
Matt should def grow up i own both ps3 and 360 and love both although i do remain a loyal sony fanboy i still have to say that whichever system(s) this game came out for or will come out for its an awesome game period. White Knight Chronicles looks Sweet!!!
sorry matt although u raise a valid point that microsoft is getting all the new JRPG’s (well at least all the good ones)..thats no reason to hate them but… heres a GOOD reason: the fact that 4 of my friends have recently had to either buy new or repair their xboxs because of hardware failure. look deeper into it on the net and you’ll find evidence that microsoft despite knowing their system had errors that could have been corrected before release; did so anyway.i myself fell victim to their errors and had to send it to them for refurbishing which(knock on wood) i havent had any problems since. anyway theres my 2 cents.