![]() ![]() The PlayStation 3 game will all be on one disc, obviously since it's a Blu-ray, meaning no switching and swapping to go from planet to planet. He also confirmed a few details about the PlayStation 3 game, coming this February 2010. Star Ocean: The Last Hope International producer Yoshinori Yamagishi has said in the latest issue of Famitsu that he is no longer going to be involved with the Star Ocean, however, he's glad his last Star Ocean game is done on PlayStation 3. ![]() As Kotaku points out, it's quite possible that the dev did see such a practice on Vampire Rain, a game the mystery developer says they worked on. Though they didn't work on it, the developer claims to have seen this policy in practice with Tales of Vesperia. it's cheaper as you already have the game done." "As a result, first you develop for the Xbox, reducing development costs. ![]() if you sign an exclusive contract with Microsoft (you won't release it on other hardware for a year or similar), they will give you a lot of cash for development," read a Japanese developer's post (the original post has since been removed), translated by Sankaku Complex (site NSFW). "It was easier developing for the Xbox 360. #Star ocean first departure r purgatorium ps3One Japanese developer claims the exclusivity agreements are being used in lieu of financial help from Sony for game development - essentially saying that Japanese developers are using Microsoft's capital to develop temporarily exclusive 360 games with the intention of inexpensively porting the games to PS3 later on. What do Vampire Rain, Tales of Vesperia, Lost Planet, Eternal Sonata and Enchanted Arms all have in common? Aside from being developed in Japan, every one of them landed on the Xbox 360 "exclusively" first, only getting ported (sometimes with additional content) to the PlayStation 3 a year or so later. Rumor: Microsoft exclusivity deals funding PS3 development in Japan ![]()
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