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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

Well wouldn't they have announced it at the same time as the Vita version if they had any intention of bringing it over? Look at how many Japanese games get a PS4/Vita dual release in the US. It just seems strange to me.

I'm gonna try to answer this in the best way that I understand it, but Japanese companies like Bandai still make no fucking sense to me even when I try to rationalize it.

Gundam Extreme VS' primary market is Japan. The way the series primarily works is that there is an Arcade game that is one version ahead of what is released on consoles (Ex: PS3 with Full boost now and Arcades with Maxi Boost). That's all well and good since Japan still has a lot of money coming in from arcades, and the developers try to please both the console and arcade players with exclusive suits/features, e.t.c. And they usually try to release the next iteration on console after the arcade version has upgraded to their next version, so there isn't an arcade drought like what happened when Full Boost PS3 came out before Maxi Boost Arcade. But they usually announce the console version is coming in the later half of the year before it comes out.

The problem is that there is no announcement for Maxi Boost on PS4 because this Vita game is in the way taking up the air. Or even if we know the game exists. I think Bandai is afraid of saying anything about an VS game on console next as it would take away from Force's sales. And if they announced Force localization alongside Maxi Boost PS4 announcement/localization, Force would have suffered. Why would anyone in the west want the Single Player Vita spin-off if they knew in the coming months the real VS game would come out?