Comments on: Compile Heart Porting Cross Edge To Xbox 360

By: Hraesvelgr

Hraesvelgr — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:14:08 +0000

Yeah, with all those visual novels and whatnot, I see what you're getting at.

By: Hraesvelgr

Hraesvelgr — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:12:25 +0000

Then again, a lot of companies suck at developing for the PS3 (more complicated, blahblahblah) compared to other consoles, resulting in problems like that.

By: Hraesvelgr

Hraesvelgr — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:11:05 +0000

Certainly seems like it'd make sense to release it outside of Japan on the 360… though, I doubt it will sell that great anyway, what with it being a niche game and the PS3 version being out already. No surprise that they'd port it though, after they did the same with Agarest Senki.

By: Strike_Man

Strike_Man — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:53:35 +0000

Almost no history, but you could count Felicia and the other Darkstalkers characters in Capcom Fighting Evolution, which hit both the PS2 and XBOX… =P

IF straws GOTO grasp

By: Strike_Man

Strike_Man — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:51:20 +0000

Hey, perhaps I *will* get to play this game in HD after all…

By: jj984jj

jj984jj — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:40:17 +0000

Wait did NIS ever clarify that Idea Factory was doing the Wii port?

By: Lacan

Lacan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:20:38 +0000

This is why I don't see the point in this release. ALL of the characters are playstation established characters from playstation established franchises. If the game sold shit on PS3, then I can't even IMAGINE how shit it's going to sell on the Xbox 360, especially in Japan.They should have just made a new multiplatform game instead of spending more resources on this version.

it's not unreasonable or farfetched to assume that the group of people that ported Agarest is still around

Regarding Agarest Senki port made by Compile Hears

Cross Edge was built on a modified Agarest Senki platform

They sold ...4000 copies for 360 vs 25k copies for PS3

The fact that they're doing it again probably means porting costs is minimal and that they made a profit on the 4000 360 copies sold (remember, Agarest had a break-even budget of 3-4000 copies sold on PS3)

I wouldn't be bothered...the Agarest port was plagued with bugs (overflow error preventing XP from being gained if you earned too much from bosses, impossible to achieve all achievements, could not be installed) and patches were never released. The only thing Agarest gained was I believe 4 CGs and some dialogue that was a bit more risque than the original.

BTW: Sorry for the long text

By: Rol

Rol — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:23:54 +0000

I will be the first in line if this comes out here in America.

I hope this give a *hint, hint* *nudge* to NIS to start porting the games that they make to the 360 *cough*D3*cough*

By: Ereek

Ereek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:09:37 +0000

I'm surprised too. Cross Edge did seem to do well in America, for a NISA game, and NISA did commission a Wii version of Sakura Taisen 5, which is being ported by Idea Factory, for America. That might possibly have something to do with it, but I doubt it.

By: Hiryuu

Hiryuu — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:28:34 +0000

Not to mention that the PS3 version is already plagued with slowdowns (i.e. more enemies in a match will likely get a slowdown; see first Prinny fight). If the hardware has anything to say about it, the Wii would probably run the game far worse.

That's why I laugh when people say this should have been on the PS2. Then you get games like Arcana Heart 2.