Skies of Arcadia Sequel A Reality?
Andrew Paulson, Managing Editor | May 7, 2008
Rumored sequel could possibly be revealed as early as the Tokyo Game show.
We reported in March of the list of likely expected games at this years SEGA Gamer’s Day 2008, which included Eternal Arcadia (Skies of Arcadia). The very popular Dreamcast RPG has been often rumored to get a possible sequel for awhile now, German website SEGA ON seems to think this is a reality. What they call very reliable Sega close sources, they mention that Sega will definitely present a Skies of Arcadia sequel sometime this year.
A exact date has not been given out yet, but they explain that the game will likely be confirmed at the earliest at the Tokyo Game show. They also mention that a Nintendo Wii version of the game is in the works and a possible PlayStation 3 version as well. This is all just speculation so far, so don’t get too excited until we get some sort of confirmation from Sega themselves.
WII VERSION *ONLY* THANKS… SEGA
wii version only? why handicap what could otherwise be a fantastic game?
Because a game like this needs focus, not a gazilion of platforms. And the only platform with backwards compatibility with SoA is Wii.
Wii is capable of good graphics too, if we just assume the developers will make crap from the start it’s just natural that the hardware won’t get used; and it needs to be used, rather than saying *let’s go elsewhere for this game*; otherwise we could do just the same with PS3 and X360, the PC is already more powerful by a tenfold anyway, why push them?
Lastly, the original was a fantastic game on a way inferior platform, is it handycapped now? money talks, Wii leads the market right now, sells good worldwide including Japan… and not doing RPG’s focused on it makes no sense, it might also be way cheaper for Sega to do, considering Skies of Arcadia is not one of their top tiers. Common sense really.
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