My guess is that The Last Story would be up next and is hinging on how well Xenoblade does in terms of preorders and sales. And the same would go for Pandora's Tower as well.
I honestly think that the franchise is best suited to a game in the style of Dead Island. We all know I wasn't a fan of that particular game, but an open world game on the island like that would be fantastic.
No need to play the second before you jump into this. And let me add that I did spend about 20 hours in the game before I completed the last mission. My main complaint is really that the game finished so abruptly and if I was the type to only play story missions the game would be over before you know it. The blatant use of DLC to gauge the user base isn't kosher with me.
Being that it's on the cover of Game Informer, I'm guessing that it's been in development for a while and will be here sooner than later. I'm kind of interested to see what will be done with this beloved franchise.
This is something I've been harping on for quite some time. Publishers need to realize that not every title is fit to release at the $60 mark. Games with fantastic length or an unparalleled experience should still understandably go for top dollar, but titles like Shadows of the Damned would have sold better had they been available at a more reasonable price point.
I honestly don't recall there being much of an outcry from the Sony community for a game like this. Smash Bros. worked because while the characters came from different worlds, the aesthetic lent itself to the concept that these characters could all interact with each other.
I have a hard time seeing Nathan Drake, Kratos, Jak and Daxter and Sweet Tooth all melding together to make this work.
I have to agree with Esteban, the price of admission here just went up with these "memory cards." I can buy a standard 32 GB SD card for the cost of the low end Vita model here, which is utterly ridiculous.
I'm guessing that not many will be ported. Escape Plan, Gravity Rush, Little Deviants, ModNation Racers, Touch my Katamari and a few others here were designed to take advantage of the Vita's touch screen and back touch panel (Escape Plan only uses touch screen control from my recollection) and therefore wouldn't work that well on the PlayStation. I'm sure that some may support the "Transfer" feature that MotorStorm RC will, which will be a great benefit. It would actually be really nice if Uncharted could be patched to do so - I would love to be able to play the game at home on my big screen and then take it with me to play on lunch breaks.
I'm excited about the possibility between transferring your game from one device to another. Being able to play a game on the run and then simply transferring it to your home device to play it on the big screen is fantastic. It's like the Wii U's second screen but more portable and more expensive (in theory).
I heard that this was more of an "absorption" of the Tales studio than a simple closing down. That considered I would say that the Tales series is in no real danger of disappearing.
