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NEWS: Gundam Extreme VS-Force PS Vita Game's Western Release Will Be Digital-Only

AGGGGGHHHHHH! digital only FFS

come on Vita memory cards are expensive, what's wrong with a physical release

Personally speaking, I would have preferred Full Boost or a console version of Maxi Boost over Force. My fear is that Force will sell like shit and Bandai Namco will use that as an excuse to not release any more games in the US for a second time. The Vita is essentially dead in the water and many people have probably sold theirs. I have a Vita TV, but only for Persona 4 Golden and Danganronpa(Which are now on PC so that point no longer holds weight.). Force's exposure is so little a lot of people probably have no idea it's coming West.

This is the first non-Dynasty Warrior's Gundam game that we've gotten since Crossfire in 2006(Which isn't nearly as bad as people said it was. I've played it countless times over.).

Nyren wrote:

Personally speaking, I would have preferred Full Boost or a console version of Maxi Boost over Force. My fear is that Force will sell like shit and Bandai Namco will use that as an excuse to not release any more games in the US for a second time. The Vita is essentially dead in the water and many people have probably sold theirs. I have a Vita TV, but only for Persona 4 Golden and Danganronpa(Which are now on PC so that point no longer holds weight.). Force's exposure is so little a lot of people probably have no idea it's coming West.

It probably will sell like shit. It didn't even sell half of what the previous worst selling vs series game sold in Japan. Days after release in Japan, you could find places selling it for half off. And this release trailer? It didn't show off what the game was about at all... And its a low key digital only release on a nearly dead console to boot. A lot of the people interested in it that followed the JP trailers actually showcasing the game probably picked up a disc version (even in English if they wanted) months ago. The sad thing is that even though it is substantially worse than any other EXVS game, as far as gundam games go, it is pretty decent. I'd say better than the Gundam Musou games which are the only other gundam games that came out here.

Nyren wrote:

This is the first non-Dynasty Warrior's Gundam game that we've gotten since Crossfire in 2006(Which isn't nearly as bad as people said it was. I've played it countless times over.).

I wonder if you could still say that it isn't garbage after you've played Gundam Senki. Crossfire isn't literally the worst game ever, but it is quite bad. If you're craving a gundam game fix that isn't DW or PS2 era, it just happens to be your only English option.

I imported the Battlefield Record 0081. I liked it more than Crossfire, but since everything was in Japanese I had no idea what was going on, what my objectives were, etc. My favorite Gundam games are Zeonic Front(Which I heard they butchered beyond all belief for that MS Side Stories collection.), Battle Assault 2, and Extreme vs. Full Boost.

Nyren wrote:

I imported the Battlefield Record 0081. I liked it more than Crossfire, but since everything was in Japanese I had no idea what was going on, what my objectives were, etc. My favorite Gundam games are Zeonic Front(Which I heard they butchered beyond all belief for that MS Side Stories collection.), Battle Assault 2, and Extreme vs. Full Boost.

Yeah, not the most import friendly game unless you know some Japanese (or maybe Chinese could get you by?).

You threw in some old school gundam games, but no mention of Encounters in Space? I thought that game was amazing back in the day. Even versus mode was tons of fun with friends... though we had a rule that someone at all times had to have a beam rifle because spamming beams was the only good way to find someone after they spawned with a new suit.

And this is why I don't support gundam in the West. Had to import Shin Gundam Musou, and now have to import this - all because of the digital only treatment.

A vicious circle - Vita is dying in the West, so they release digital if any release at all, so less people support it in the West, which accelerates Vita dying in the West

enurtsol wrote:

A vicious circle - Vita is dying in the West, so they release digital if any release at all, so less people support it in the West, which accelerates Vita dying in the West

But in the end it doesn't really matter. Sony was kind enough to make all of their stuff region free. And if that wasn't enough, Bamco has recently been releasing physical English versions you can import.

terrible roster.

can someone tell me why they didn't just port the ps3 game and build on that?

I don't know that your graphs tell that great of a picture. Sony is spending more on digital advertising, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're shifting to digital. Sony isn't having problems moving product in retail stores so they just wouldn't need to spend as much there. Microsoft on the other hand is struggling there so they will have to more evenly split their advertising budget. You can't compare spending between the two and use that to determine the company's strategy because the two aren't in the same place currently.