Konami "seriously considered" releasing
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate on PS Vita, but decided to keep the side-scrolling adventure a 3DS exclusive.
Why?
Well, it's all down to the Vita's pesky two-dimensional screen.
Vampire slaying in three dimensions"The Vita could have run the game no problem, and we did seriously consider it as a [target] platform," the game's producer, Dave Cox, told
Pocket Gamer.
"But when we saw the game on 3DS and how it looked with the 3D, it made us realise we could never replicate that on another system."
Why is this game not on Vita? Tell me!Cox reckons that you'll want to keep the 3D slider switched on during
Mirror of Fate.
"We have carefully considered every angle, every shot, every vista to totally show off the 3D effect," Cox said.
The Vita beater"I'm not knocking the Vita," Cox stated, "but if we were to develop a game on that console, we would really focus on the Vita's core strengths. The Vita game would be very different from a version for 3DS."
Previously, Capcom
said it would not port
Resident Evil: Revelations to Vita because the two handheld consoles are "extremely different beasts".
Click here to read our full interview with Cox, where he talks about leaving behind the Castlevania legacy, ditching the Metroidvania approach, and bringing back Alucard.
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This game is only for Nintendo's baby system.
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@Blitzkrieg - Castlevania is a Konami game.
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Blitzkrieg1979 | 23:43 - 1 February 2013
I hate this guy so much, screw capcom. Have bought my last game from them. They also screwed us out of a resident evil release as well. Guess these guys like to play favorites with their good releases. Thanks for nothing capcom
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Facelord | 07:11 - 31 January 2013
The 3DS gave me migraines, eyestrain, blurred vision and a persistent eyetwitch(lasted over 8 months) after only a few hours total of using its 3D effect in the menus total, never for more than five minutes. No, I would not play any 3DS game in 3D mode, in fact I won't play any 3DS games because I refunded that awful handheld and got a Vita instead. Obviously they lost my purchase.
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Do Vita owners really want 3DS ports after the Lego games? I would never pay money for a 3DS port because it's just at such a lower standard than the Vita should have.
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3D is just terrible - I'm surprised developers are even using the feature at this point when 3D has so widely and totally failed
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Great. Next, they will not port the next Street Fighter sequel to Vita because the Vita's curved sides makes it impractical to hold it properly when doing special movies versus the square shaped 3DS.
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lame sauce
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That's probably the shittiest excuse I've ever heard for not moving a game to a different platform, but Capcom comes in a close second. Can you just admit it and say "Currently, the PlayStation Vita is not a profit viable system to make games for." Maybe if enough 3rd party developers tell the truth, Sony will get that price cut going.
I can't even play a 3DS game with 3D on, more than likely because I can't see 3D images.
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Yep, nobody turns on 3D for more than a moment, and this is just making CoinArmy look silly again.
What ever happened to the announcement of Lord of Shadows 2 (The full console version) coming to Vita? That looks like a killer Vita game.
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