Tales of Vesperia gets release date

By Ellie Gibson Published 10 June, 2008

Won't be out in Europe till next year.

A global release schedule has been announced for Tales of Vesperia, the RPG being developed excusively for Xbox 360 by Namco.

As reported by Videogaming247, the game will launch in Japan on August 7th priced at JPY 7800 (GBP 37 / EUR 47).

A hardware bundle will be available for JPY 37,800 (GBP 180 / EUR 227). This will include the game, a Premium Xbox 360 unit and an unconfirmed bonus item.

Tales of Vesperia will also get an August release in the US. However, the game won't be available in Europe until 2009.

The news was announced by producer Yoshito Higuchi at a Microsoft-hosted event in Tokyo. He also said a TOV demo will be released via Xbox Live later this month, but didn't specify which regions it will be available in.

Us Europeans probably shouldn't hold our breath, but there's always, um, the trailer.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • kissthestick #1 4 years ago

    fuck sake namco, oh well at least demo's out in June

  • menage #2 4 years ago

    Didn't look that hot to begin with. seeing as there are probably a lot of more interesting ones announced today.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/08 @ 09:20

  • Dizzy #3 4 years ago

    With some luck it will be region free and in English ;)

    >Didn't look that hot to begin with

    Hmmm.. the Tales series are pretty famous and usually are very well received.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/08 @ 09:34

  • des #4 4 years ago

    PS3 could get a port 1 year later...maybe
    Sony should rename PS3 to Port Station 3

  • menage #5 4 years ago

    @Dizzy

    I know. never got that. maybe it's because I hate the realtime turnbased hybrid stuff. Plus the trailer didn't really give me a "wow", compared to say Last Remnant.

  • AwesomeWells #6 4 years ago

    I loved Tales of Symphonia and I'm very much looking forward to this. Fingers crossed it'll be region free.

  • toythatkills #7 4 years ago

    Namco Bandai games are never region free on 360, there's no hope whatsoever that this will be, so I wouldn't even bother getting your hopes up :(

    Fucking Namco

  • NegativeZero #8 4 years ago

    Namco have a long history of pouring hate on PAL, I doubt they'd suddenly decide to go region-free.

    Can we assume that the delay will be because they're doing the usual thing and handing it over to Atari UK to handle?

    I guess the big question for me is whether they'll continue the trend set by Eternal Sonata and include a Japanese vocal option. If you're a weaboo japanophile JRPG addict like me then you really tend to prefer it when they do.

  • spimmy #9 4 years ago

    ffs i really hate how Namco treat us they remind me of how s/e used to be towards us i.e hardly ever brought games out here
    but namco they only game ive seen over here with them on the box is hellgate london!

  • Wildsleven #10 4 years ago

    can someone tell me whats the point for us europeans to get the game so late, , the game in u.s will be in english too right???