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Originally Posted by Benoit
If the game had only a handful of fans Namco wouldn't bother with remaking it twice.
Of course, because it got released in all three major regions.
In reality, the Japanese sales matter to a Japanese publisher. Sad, but true.
Yet Tales of Vesperia was released on the Xbox 360, the console with the smallest install base in Japan.
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a re-release is an attempt to bank on the massive PS2 market, which worked.
I don't know how much you keep up on media news, but expanding and maintaining sales outside of japan is the only way to keep the video game industry from failing since the industry itself is on the decline, until the wii and ds came to the rescue.
ToV came out on the 360 because MS smacked Namco with a wad of cash in an attempt to expand their market in the east.