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Loli_Drizzle said:
I don't see why BlazBlue wouldn't come out over in the States. If it doesn't, I'll just fly over to Japan and strangle some people to get my point across. If they bring Battle Phantasia and Guilty Gear over here, why not?
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Well, we may have got Battle Phantasia and Guilty Gear brought over here, but..here's the thing. Battle Phantasia is 2.5D. We also didn't get every Guilty Gear. We skipped out on #Reload for the PS2 and it went on the XBOX and we didn't even get Slash.

We got Accent Core, but we didn't get Accent Core + despite it adding a Story Mode. SCEA has a real big problem with accepting 2D fighters, unless they are budget price. This is what makes me concerned about a stateside release for BlazBlue.

Japan is used to paying $64 for a 2D game on the PS3. However..what about us? If SCEA does what they did with the PS2 and tells Arc that we won't accept it unless it's put at a budget price (around $32 or so, I'd say), then they will probably just put it on the 360 for the U.S. instead. Personally, yeah..I do think it is a bit absurd to pay over $60 for a 2D sprite game on the PS3, but still..you can't ask a company to reduce the price by half just to release it in another region.

I'm just thinking SCEA won't allow a 2D fighter for PS3 to be put on the shelf for $64 (this is after tax, by the way). I also don't think Arc would be willing to knock it down to $32, if asked. If anything, Aksys will probably just release it for the 360 for the original retail price.

That's just my guess though.
 
TetsuyaHikari said:
Well, we may have got Battle Phantasia and Guilty Gear brought over here, but..here's the thing. Battle Phantasia is 2.5D. We also didn't get every Guilty Gear. We skipped out on #Reload for the PS2 and it went on the XBOX and we didn't even get Slash.

We got Accent Core, but we didn't get Accent Core + despite it adding a Story Mode. SCEA has a real big problem with accepting 2D fighters, unless they are budget price. This is what makes me concerned about a stateside release for BlazBlue.

Japan is used to paying $64 for a 2D game on the PS3. However..what about us? If SCEA does what they did with the PS2 and tells Arc that we won't accept it unless it's put at a budget price (around $32 or so, I'd say), then they will probably just put it on the 360 for the U.S. instead. Personally, yeah..I do think it is a bit absurd to pay over $60 for a 2D sprite game on the PS3, but still..you can't ask a company to reduce the price by half just to release it in another region.

I'm just thinking SCEA won't allow a 2D fighter for PS3 to be put on the shelf for $64 (this is after tax, by the way). I also don't think Arc would be willing to knock it down to $32, if asked. If anything, Aksys will probably just release it for the 360 for the original retail price.

That's just my guess though.
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Hm...good point. I may have to import if it doesn't come over here. Thank goodness the PS3 is region-free.
 
TetsuyaHikari said:
Well, we may have got Battle Phantasia and Guilty Gear brought over here, but..here's the thing. Battle Phantasia is 2.5D. We also didn't get every Guilty Gear. We skipped out on #Reload for the PS2 and it went on the XBOX and we didn't even get Slash.

We got Accent Core, but we didn't get Accent Core + despite it adding a Story Mode. SCEA has a real big problem with accepting 2D fighters, unless they are budget price. This is what makes me concerned about a stateside release for BlazBlue.

Japan is used to paying $64 for a 2D game on the PS3. However..what about us? If SCEA does what they did with the PS2 and tells Arc that we won't accept it unless it's put at a budget price (around $32 or so, I'd say), then they will probably just put it on the 360 for the U.S. instead. Personally, yeah..I do think it is a bit absurd to pay over $60 for a 2D sprite game on the PS3, but still..you can't ask a company to reduce the price by half just to release it in another region.

I'm just thinking SCEA won't allow a 2D fighter for PS3 to be put on the shelf for $64 (this is after tax, by the way). I also don't think Arc would be willing to knock it down to $32, if asked. If anything, Aksys will probably just release it for the 360 for the original retail price.

That's just my guess though.
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I wouldn't necessarily agree. I point to Disgaea 3. That game demonstrates absolutely nothing the PS3 has to offer over the PS2. Yet, it was released in the US. Granted it wasn't sold for $59.99 but $49.99 but the same applies to the retail price for Battle Fantasia for the 360 in the US (I'm not too sure why it wasn't released for PS3 in the states when you have a game like Disgaea 3 being released here). Unlike Disgaea 3, BlazeBlu is a high def game meant to be run in high def and that's what Sony was pushing for with this console anyway. So I see no reason for it to not be released in the US when it is a high def game, unlike D3 which still made a US release.
 
ShinobiBrown said:
I wouldn't necessarily agree. I point to Disgaea 3. That game demonstrates absolutely nothing the PS3 has to offer over the PS2. Yet, it was released in the US. Granted it wasn't sold for $59.99 but $49.99 but the same applies to the retail price for Battle Fantasia for the 360 in the US (I'm not too sure why it wasn't released for PS3 in the states when you have games like Disgaea 3 being released here). Unlike Disgaea 3, BlazeBlu is a High Def game meant to be run in high def. So I see no reason for it to not be released in the US when it is a high def game, unlike D3 yet it still made a US release.
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Disgaea 3 also wasn't a fighter. SCEA never had a problem accepting 2D games in general, but with fighters, there was a problem with it unless it was sold for budget price. BlazBlue may be a high def game, but it's still 2D.

I'm not sure SCEA would be willing to accept a 2D fighter for such a high price, but who knows..maybe they understand that the games are on Blu-ray now, so the production price is higher than PS2 titles. Oh well, even if they don't bring it to the States, I'll just import it like Drizzle has pointed out. Yay for having a region-free console!
 
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