There's also the disputable point of whether or not their graphics engine would hold up on HD consoles. I'm aware the PC games look GREAT but they'll never match the recent AAA megabusters. Falcom is this weird company that somehow survived the HD transition despite having never produced next-gen games. It's all about quality products and undying fan support. I'm willing to bet that they still have a bunch of their original employees from as far back as the early eighties.

In a way they sort of remind me of Atlus Japan. They're still not giving us “next-gen” games but we don't really care. It'll happen eventually but until then I'll be enjoying SMT: SJ and all of their quality PSP titles. They know exactly who their target audience is and how to reach them without breaking the bank and reinventing the wheel.

It's up to us to send the message to these companies that we REFUSE digital-only release of UMD games. I'm very disappointed Badman didn't even get 500 preorders, but on the other hand most people who wanted the game probably got it right when it came out and didn't feel the need for double dipping (it is a very short game). Badman 2 should be UMD based on what NISA are saying.

Nihon Falcom games are complete products that deserve adequate promotion and widespread retail exposure. The Ys brand is still strong in North America and could be even stronger with a double shot to the PSP's arm. OiF and Seven are nothing short of fantastic. We're talking about games that could easily score in the 80% range at metacritics. Why aren't publishers more actively looking into acquiring these titles? At least now we know Falcom are working on it.

Everything they've released lately has been a PSP port, PSP game, or DS game, other than their usual releasing it on PC first.

Anyways, Ys vs Legend of Heroes may be okay. I personally would rather get a Tales of VS localization but Namco hates us.

Now Ys Oath of Felghana getting a PSP port and hopefully also comes to the US too. Falcom is an amazing company. Hope we hear about a PSP port of Zwei 2 next and hopefully a translation.

The only time I won't be picking these games up is if these don't receive UMD runs. If I have to buy a digital copy I'm not picking them up, but that goes for any game.

lol k

After seeing Tales of VS bomb, which seemed promising, I don't have high hopes for this. Just hurry up and get to work on bringing Ys VIII to PS3/360/PC/etc. already :/

Then again, maybe not. Since Sora are the only games in the series on the PSP done by Falcom themselves, they can just re-use assets from that, if they included the other games, they'd have to make them.

Again, thanks for the tip and we'll be posting it soon :)