website claims Gradius VI for PS3 delayed or cancelled

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:27 am

This major site affiliated with EGM magazine, claims that development on Gradius VI for PS3 is no longer going ahead...

1UP.com wrote:Gradius VI
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami

Konami's phenomenal side-scrolling space shoot-'em-up series blew away fans of the genre with the phenomenal Treasure-developed Gradius V, and one can only imagine what the Vic Viper will look like on a next-gen platform. Unfortunately, this one may never see the light of day - 1UP has been told by a source close to Konami that the game is on "indefinite hold".

Yikes...

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:27 pm

Hmm...well, at this point about the only reasonable thing to do would be to keep our ears open for any more "official" info as regards to this...

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:39 pm

The only upside I can see: I don't need to get a PS3 right away.

mice · Post by **mice** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:49 pm

They might cancel something I didn't hear about it in the first place...so I should be in status quo, but somehow I feel a bit down...

Here's hoping there is no truth to it.

Post by **system11** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:21 pm

I wonder if it's at all related to the PS3 being delayed (and how many times more will that happen?)

Alpolio · Post by **Alpolio** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:58 pm

Do the developers even have their final dev kits (based on the actual hardware) yet?

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:48 pm

bloodflowers wrote:I wonder if it's at all related to the PS3 being delayed (and how many times more will that happen?)

That would be my guess, because rumor has it that Sony is rethinking the BR technology, and if they remove that from PS3's, then any dev. kits that have already been sent out, to companies like Konami, would be pretty useless. And Konami may have had plans to make the game a BR game, which would be pretty mute if these rumors are true.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:54 pm

I would be more inclined to want to get something if it were on the Revolution...imagine playing a shmup on one of those controllers...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:03 am

Blade wrote:I would be more inclined to want to get something if it were on the Revolution...imagine playing a shmup on one of those controllers...

The horror?

OneEyedJack · Post by **OneEyedJack** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:30 am

It is prolly on indefinite hold until the PS3 numbers are up to snuff. Gradius, however beloved is not beloved in huge-big numbers. Could be a wait and see until fall 2007 deal.

Konami could be merely hedging their bets. I expect it'll come out , just under better market conditions.

Dandy J · Post by **Dandy J** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:16 am

I see no reason to worry. The PS3 is pretty far from even release, seems too early to care.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:29 am

Not good news but they are probably just putting it on the backburner untilt hey can either find an outside dev to make it or devote enough in house resources to the game. 2D has never been a priority for Konami with the next gen consoles so this is no surprise (trying to turn off silly "Sony conspiracy!" thoughts

)

Metal Gear Okt · Post by **Metal Gear Okt** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:46 am

OneEyedJack wrote:It is prolly on indefinite hold until the PS3 numbers are up to snuff. Gradius, however beloved is not beloved in huge-big numbers. Could be a wait and see until fall 2007 deal.

Konami could be merely hedging their bets. I expect it'll come out , just under better market conditions.

That's probably closer to being right.

They figured if they can't get in done in time for the "it's a launch game, people will buy anything" rush, they'll put it on hold until the numbers are better.

I guarantee you that we'll see a Gradius 6 at some point, and probably on the PS3.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:00 am

- I'm mad. I wanted this game to see the light of day.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:35 am

dave4shmups wrote:And Konami may have had plans to make the game a BR game, which would be pretty mute if these rumors are true.

Well, Blu-Ray only matters for disc size and I doubt a 2D Gradius game would be able to take up more than a DVD's space.

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:02 am

Dandy J wrote:I see no reason to worry. The PS3 is pretty far from even release, seems too early to care.

This is what I was also thinking of.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:18 am

Thunder Force wrote:This major site affiliated with EGM magazine, claims that development on Gradius VI for PS3 is no longer going ahead...

1UP.com wrote:Gradius VI
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami

Konami's phenomenal side-scrolling space shoot-'em-up series blew away fans of the genre with the phenomenal Treasure-developed Gradius V, and one can only imagine what the Vic Viper will look like on a next-gen platform. Unfortunately, this one may never see the light of day - 1UP has been told by a source close to Konami that the game is on "indefinite hold".
Yikes...

I don't blame them. $ony keeps pushing the PS3 back, and from what I've heard, the devkits cost a fortune. Have they even sent those out yet? :/

Lone Deranger · Post by **Lone Deranger** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:57 am

I've heard $ony Cambridge have a few. Makes little sense though seeing as the specs appear to change every other week.

Zweihander wrote:I don't blame them. $ony keeps pushing the PS3 back, and from what I've heard, the devkits cost a fortune. Have they even sent those out yet? :/

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:27 pm

Zweihander wrote:I don't blame them. $ony keeps pushing the PS3 back, and from what I've heard, the devkits cost a fortune. Have they even sent those out yet? :/

My worry is $ony pushing back the release of the development kit and induse chaos the development schdule of Konami.

The worast case is the development team orginally planed to develop the next Gradius game become unavaliable due to the delay of the PS3 development kit...

i.e. PS3 development kit is not avaliable on schedule and the planed development team is assigned another project.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:50 pm

Dylan1CC wrote:2D has never been a priority for Konami with the next gen consoles so this is no surprise (trying to turn off silly "Sony conspiracy!" thoughts :P )

maybe they'll do a next gen port of Solar Assault... :P

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:53 am

I'm not really worried. Odds are that the indefinite hold status will be lifted once PS3 is on the shelves. Gradius VI just may not make launch or even show up for 2006.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:24 pm

captain ahar wrote:
Dylan1CC wrote:2D has never been a priority for Konami with the next gen consoles so this is no surprise (trying to turn off silly "Sony conspiracy!" thoughts )
maybe they'll do a next gen port of Solar Assault...

I would welcome any port of that game-it came out in 1997, and there's simply no good reason for the lack of even a PS1 port.

But yeah, considering that the PS3 won't launch until November, I doubt we'll see Gradius VI this year-unless Konami has any of it complete by E3, or the TGS.

Note to Konami-PLEASE no more loads of repeat bosses.

stratos · Post by **stratos** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:40 am

I knew the game was announced for the 360: is it true???

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:58 am

Rob wrote:
Blade wrote:I would be more inclined to want to get something if it were on the Revolution...imagine playing a shmup on one of those controllers...
The horror?

Quoted for truth

*plays Metal Slug and manages to make Eri shoot herself*

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:10 am

http://wii.ign.com/articles/754/754308p1.html

Looks like the cancellation is finally official.

by IGN Staff
January 10, 2007 - Konami's support for both the PS3 and Wii appears to have taken a major hit. The release list in the latest issue of Famitsu reveals reveals that a number of next generation titles previously announced by the company are no longer in development.

Here's the full list of cancelled titles.

Gradius Series (PS3)

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (PS3)

New Action Game (PS3)

New Role Playing Game (PS3)

New Action Adventure Game 2 (Wii)

Role Playing Game (Wii)

I guess that's business for ya with the next gen. Assuming the cause really was PS3 development spending, it was no doubt hard for Konami to justify the additional cost of a "lower tier" title when the system it's on is generating huge production expenses for their better selling games.

Oh well, unless Treasure was going to work on it again this might not be such a bad thing (unless KCEJ could somehow capture the magic of Gaiden once more).

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:17 am

Dylan1CC wrote:http://wii.ign.com/articles/754/754308p1.html

by IGN Staff
January 10, 2007 - Konami's support for both the PS3 and Wii appears to have taken a major hit. The release list in the latest issue of Famitsu reveals reveals that a number of next generation titles previously announced by the company are no longer in development.

Here's the full list of cancelled titles.

Gradius Series (PS3)

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (PS3)

New Action Game (PS3)

New Role Playing Game (PS3)

New Action Adventure Game 2 (Wii)

Role Playing Game (Wii)
Looks like the cancellation is official. Oh well, unless Treasure was going to work on it again this might not be such a bad thing (unless KCEJ could somehow capture the magic of Gaiden once more).

That's really a sad news for me, along with Einhander, Gradius was my favorite Horizontal

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:25 am

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Those bastards!

etc

Do you chaps think this has a lot to do with the difficulty of PS3 development and the costs (or, rather, justifying putting the time/money into a franchise that now sells pretty slowly and steadily)? Could Sony be on another "pah, 2D on THIS machine?" kick?

And damn, I'd pre-ordered New Action Adventure Game 2.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:26 am

Blade wrote:I would be more inclined to want to get something if it were on the Revolution...imagine playing a shmup on one of those controllers...

No way. Gradius VI on Wii would be just fine with classic controller support. GC pads would also suffice but of course I'd rather use my Hori.

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:06 am

What the heck konami is thinking!? they suck because they cancel gradius series on ps3 without any reason!

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:07 am

Kaiser wrote:What the heck konami is thinking!? they suck because they cancel gradius series on ps3 without any reason!

Not enough rentability?

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