I think it's pretty awesome personally.. though I guess it could have very well been a PS2 game and attracted a bigger audience. But then again, maybe this helps market the platform to die-hard SRPG fans.. so in that sense, it's not a waste at all.

While I agree that Wii would make sense, or even more the PSP, there's something to be said for a continued fan base of a platform. I mean a certain franchise might very well be a better fit for another platform, but that's not where its audience is at. Disgaea is a pretty obscure RPG unless you're an RPG fan (and even then it's totally weird) so venturing outside of its beaten fan-path is prolly just asking for trouble.

It's somewhat encouraging to see, also, that they're starting to move games over to the PS3. Say what you want about the way MS farted in the face of Xbox users, but they got games moved over to the 360 really early, which also encouraged people to get one - subsequently jumpstarting it as a viable platform. Granted it resulted in high res PS2 games in a lot of cases, but there are advantages to that aswell. We got achievements in Dynasty Warriors. :D

Anyhoo, if you're a Sony/Playstation gamer having bought a PS3 it isn't really a huge comfort to have games on the PS2 instead with all of its image quality problems and lack of robust online features, even though the system could handle it. You don't wanna pay PS3 style prices for a game like this of course, but having it play perfectly and being tailored for the console that is the centerpiece in your A/V setup is actually pretty nice. The whole "make it a backwards compatible PS2 game!" is just as flawed an argument as it was with Xbox games on the 360. I dunno about you, but half of the games supposedly "backwards compatible" I wouldn't even consider plays in their original form. Sound issues, framerate issues, borders, non-vga play, gimped online features, et cetera.


In addition, I think it's worrying if games like this aren't allowed to come out on high end systems, because that'd ultimately mean there's no place for them at all. I keep hearing people say that the Wii is stupid because the tech in it is weak, and that games could be cheap/basic and come out even on a more powerful system... but that's not the reality at all. If we want all sorts of companies, small and big, to be able to bring forth their ideas we can't realistically expect everything to look like Gears of War. And unless we want to keep our Dreamcast around for games that *could've been done on that system* then we'd end up with a fuck-sized pile of consoles under our tellies. While that's basically a reality for me already, I sincerely don't see the advantage of that.

I'm all for digital distribution by the way, if you're of the PSN angle, but the truth is that not everyone is. Sometimes with good reason. There's little about digital content that feels entirely future proof, and to some it just won't be the same to pay for something as intangible as a downloadable game.