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Originally Posted by theacefrehley
I've never seen any trustful source saying the PS2 ending was the real ending.
Regardless of which one is better, I don't see a reason for the PC version not to be the real one. It's the source for everthing else, and the author had plenty of freedom to do what he wanted (it's a doujin game after all).
Probably, some shop advertised it that way to sell a few more copies of the PS2 port.
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I think western fans called it the "true ending" because some other well-known VNs such as Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night mostly have Good and True endings for each heroine. Since the Good ends are happier, people assumed that this applied to Higurashi and declared Miotsukushi-hen to be the "true end" because it's sadder.
Anyway, if it was the true ending why has it only been featured in the Matsuri version of Higurashi? The original, manga, anime and novelizations all used Matsuribayashi-hen. The reason Matsuri had a new ending was to give fans that owned the PC version an incentive to buy it.