Phantasy Star Online 2 announced!

[Happy Cat]

I'll honestly be surprised if it isn't announced for PS3

Japanese gamers don't seem like gaming PC's.. and well.. you see how SEGA Japan treats 360 PSU.. LOL, plus it wouldn't sell in Japan on the 360.

[George]

I think it will do well on 360, I hear that the 360 version of PSU had the most active players? I'm not sure if that is true.

What will most likely happen:
- PC/PS3 server
- 360 server

I think the reason will be that MS likes control over games and cross game chat wouldn't work with PC/PS3 gamers.

[Happy Cat]

I think it will do well on 360, I hear that the 360 version of PSU had the most active players? I'm not sure if that is true.

What will most likely happen:
- PC/PS3 server
- 360 server

I think the reason will be that MS likes control over games and cross game chat wouldn't work with PC/PS3 gamers.

well, in the west 360 was most popoular

but in Japan, the PC/PS2 server was and still is far more active in terms of Japanese players.

there is no 360 PSU server for Japan, Japan is just lumped in with the west for 360 PSU.  SEGA japan really cares about it that much that they won't even separate the disgusting foreigners from the Pure Japanese players.  

[CrazyT]

Would be nice if SEGA anounced a new console in 2011 and PSO2 was the launch title. Would be a pretty good strategy to sell their console

[Happy Cat]

i really hope for PSO2 that SEGA Japan isn't going to abuse the west servers lol, i think thats the reason they didnt bother making 360 a Japan server, that way they could ignore the 360 version because it wasn't considered Japanese.

[George]

Would be nice if SEGA anounced a new console in 2011 and PSO2 was the launch title. Would be a pretty good strategy to sell their console

Does this mean this site would turn from a fansite to a news site over night. Actually this is off topic (how Nintendo news site is OK, cuz they have a console, but a SEGA news site is a fansite etc)

Man, I would love a new SEGA console. Fuck... don't give me hope or I won't be able to sleep at night.

[Radrappy]

That would be the worst business decision ever at this point.  I have a theory bubbling in my head as to why this is PC exclusive.  Sega doesn't have the resources or the time to make this game a AAA next gen HD title so they are developing it for the PC where the standards are lower and they can create something comfortably in between this generation and the last one.  just a thought.  

In a perfect world though this would be coming for either 360 or PS3 (exclusively, doesn't matter which.  I say this because when a game is created for both consoles, the development is guaranteed to suffer some how.  It's always best to optimize a game for a single console.  They could port it later though.) and would be powered by the hedgehog engine.

[Sieghardt]

I think it will do well on 360, I hear that the 360 version of PSU had the most active players? I'm not sure if that is true.

What will most likely happen:
- PC/PS3 server
- 360 server

I think the reason will be that MS likes control over games and cross game chat wouldn't work with PC/PS3 gamers.

I'm pretty sure the reason they havent announced consoles yet is because they're trying to get MS to agree to merged servers and it'll either be merged or nothing like FF14.
and if they announced it for ps3 now then 360 later there'd be fanboy bullshit about "lost exclusives" or if they announced it for PS3 and 360 and the 360 version got cancelled there'd be complaining too. they probably did right to just steer clear of that shitstorm for the time being. This awesome news doesnt need to be tainted with console warz crap

[Barry the Nomad]

The core idea behind the original PSO was bridging the gaps between continents, and I think the mission of PSO2 should also be that as well as bridging the gap between platforms. PSO spanning PC/360/PS3 would be awesome. Though I'd gladly play it even if it was limited to each platform.

[George]

I think there will be an issue with Microsoft's 360. The console has exclusive features that won't be supported on the PS3.

You will either have to make a server PS3 - PC or 360 - PC (Games Live)

[Ulala5]

umh maybe i'm wrong but when SEGA closed the PC and PS3 servers it wasn't because "we need it to get ready for the 10th annyversary"? So i don't think it will be just for pc. (maybe, i hope lol)

[Happy Cat]

I personally hope it stays PC exclusive =P So sick of fanboy wars.

but realistically speaking, I don't see it being PC/360.  SEGA Japan only cares about Japan.   If anything it would be PC/PS3.

Most likely though it will be on all 3 platforms.  Hopefully unified servers, but if Microsoft won't allow it then it will probably be PC/PS3 and 360 for the west.  Just like PSU was.

Edward@SEGA said on the SEGA forums that PSU on the 360 has a long life ahead of it.  Maybe that means PSO2 isn't coming to the 360.

[Barry the Nomad]

I can't see SEGA ignoring the potential sales of a stronger 360 Phantasy Star fanbase. If anything, they could be keeping them hooked to PSU until late next year when PSO2 would presumably arrive. Then shift them to their new addiction.

Best opinion to take on all this is "we shall see", because at this point anything could happen... plus we won't know anything until 2011.

Back to arguing about Sonic 4!

[Sieghardt]

I personally hope it stays PC exclusive =P So sick of fanboy wars.

I hope it's for PC/PS3/360, the bigger the community it is the longer and better a life the game will have.

[Happy Cat]

I personally hope it stays PC exclusive =P So sick of fanboy wars.

I hope it's for PC/PS3/360, the bigger the community it is the longer and better a life the game will have.

Yeah, that would be good too.
that's not going to stop sites from comparing the 360 and PS3 versions though.