Hey Bandai-Namco: “Get your **** together”
I gotta say…i’m kinda pissed off at the moment. Being an avid RPG player I search day after day for console games to satisfy my need for role-playing game goodness. Final Fantasy XIII is a long ways off, so imagine my giddy surprise to hear back during Tokyo Game Show 2007 when Namco-Bandai had finally announced that they were bringing Trusty Bell (Eternal Sonata) to the Playstation 3.
They even crossed their hearts and whatnot on it. They showed pictures, videos, gave a little press conference on the game and even Famitsu had an article premiering the game and confirming that it was coming to the PS3 with extra content and was expected to be released in early 2008.
Well…IMAGINE MY SURPRISE when I checked the Namco-Bandai website and found that all of the information regarding the PS3 version had vanished, so I then checked the ratings board website also had removed all information regarding the PS3 version. So, I did what every confused consumer would do….I emailed Namco-Bandai themselves and here’s the little nugget they sent back:
Thank you for contacting Namco Bandai’s Customer Support Department.
Eternal Sonata has already been released and is available for purchase for the Xbox 360. We have not made any official announcement about other platforms and apologize for any confusion caused by the erroneous web site listing.
Please feel free to contact us again in the future as the need arises
O_o….WTF?
Now, I would have been convinced that this letter was speaking the truth if it hadn’t been for the screenshots and videos that were shown at TGS07 of the Eternal Sonata PS3 version. Hell, they even confirmed it AT THE SHOW, so….what gives NB? Are we getting the game or not?
I personally feel that some people from the Xbox 360 camp called up the people at Bandai-Namco and gave them a good scolding and them mailed them envelopes full of money to stop making the PS3 version. Just like Microsoft paid 2K games to drop the PS3 version of Bioshock, and I’m pretty sure that MS was behind the little incident regarding Patrice Desrilets and his comment on the 360 DVD not having enough disc space.
I could always be wrong about any of this considering people paying off who and dirty business being done behind the closed doors of the conference room, but Microsoft already has a history of being a bit underhanded and shady when it comes to competitors so why would I not assume they have their hands in this.
Either way: Bandai-Namco….would you please get your act together? Either release the game or not because the PS3 user base is kinda sick and tired of you jerking us around regarding what games your going to make. Confirm it or debunk it but don’t bullcrap us to death.
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