website claims Gradius VI for PS3 delayed or cancelled

eretsua · Post by **eretsua** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:26 am

Bal-Sagoth wrote:Could Sony be on another "pah, 2D on THIS machine?" kick?

that seems plausible as there is the rumor that Arika was not granted permission to bring Ketsui to the ps3 because it's not next gen.

~eretsua.

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:48 am

That's a shame. If Sony aren't putting the blocks on it, I'd hate to think that Konami themselves have started to view Gradius as a risky series that should be left on the back-burner until they've gotten their feet in the next-gen door...

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:16 pm

Perhaps the recent Gradius Collection sold less than Konami's projections, so they can't justify funding a full next-gen Gradius project right now? This is a really disappointing cancellation, but Konami have always treated the Gradius franchise with respect and not forgotten about it, so I trust they'll eventually produce another Gradius game when they feel the market timing is right.

In all fairness I can't complain too much about Konami since they're still giving shmup fans Salamander Portable, Parodius Portable and Twin Bee Portable collections all this month, kudos to Konami for that. In this context also, perhaps Konami calculate that releasing Gradius 6 too soon now would just flood the market with too many similar games...

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:18 pm

Good call, TF. Really, i'd rather wait a little longer for it anyway. The more developing knowledge the team has the better the game will look and play on the new gen hardware so a second or third generation title would be something i'd prefer anyway. Not to mention that this game is gonna have to live up to the legacy of Gaiden and Gradius V with us. All PS specific Gradius titles have been stellar so far so i'd expect no less from this one.

GAH can you imagine how awesome this game will look though!?! I'm definetly peeing a little

Stormowl · Post by **Stormowl** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:22 pm

to be honest this doesn't bother me. after gradius V, i don't see how konami could top it unless they hired treasure again. if this is the end of the numbered Gradius titles, then the series ended the way all good things should - at it's peak.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:31 pm

Thunder Force wrote:Perhaps the recent Gradius Collection sold less than Konami's projections, so they can't justify funding a full next-gen Gradius project right now? This is a really disappointing cancellation, but Konami have always treated the Gradius franchise with respect and not forgotten about it, so I trust they'll eventually produce another Gradius game when they feel the market timing is right.

In all fairness I can't complain too much about Konami since they're still giving shmup fans Salamander Portable, Parodius Portable and Twin Bee Portable collections all this month, kudos to Konami for that. In this context also, perhaps Konami calculate that releasing Gradius 6 too soon now would just flood the market with too many similar games...

Ehh? When are these collections coming out, and on what platform??

Agreed TF, they'll put out another Gradius if they feel the need. Although I would definately echo Stormowl's sentiments that if V is the last Gradius game we ever get, then the series ended quite well-certainly better then the R-Type series ended for R-Type fans.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:38 pm

dave4shmups wrote: Ehh? When are these collections coming out, and on what platform??

PSP, Jan. 25th in Japan, no U.S. release dates so far. The Salamander collection includes Xexex! Remember that PSP's are region free, so order away if you feel the need.

dave4shmups wrote: Agreed TF, they'll put out another Gradius if they feel the need. Although I would definately echo Stormowl's sentiments that if V is the last Gradius game we ever get, then the series ended quite well-certainly better then the R-Type series ended for R-Type fans.

QFT, but i wouldn't worry about it. Konami obviously deeply loves it's Gradius series. Wether they continue on with the main series or not isn't really all that big of a deal because we know we'll always get new Gradius in some form or another ^.^

Gungriffon Geona · Post by **Gungriffon Geona** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:35 pm

I find it to be that Konami realised just how hard it would be to develop Gradius on PS3, let alone alot of PS3 games. now honestly, they announced Gradius VI around the time of PS3 hype. afterwards they said nothing else about it. This seems more like a decision of "holy crap, we better wait 'till we get our land legs first!" than it does actual cancellation of Gradius on a whole.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:28 pm

circuitface wrote:
dave4shmups wrote: Ehh? When are these collections coming out, and on what platform??
PSP, Jan. 25th in Japan, no U.S. release dates so far. The Salamander collection includes Xexex! Remember that PSP's are region free, so order away if you feel the need.
dave4shmups wrote: Agreed TF, they'll put out another Gradius if they feel the need. Although I would definately echo Stormowl's sentiments that if V is the last Gradius game we ever get, then the series ended quite well-certainly better then the R-Type series ended for R-Type fans.
QFT, but i wouldn't worry about it. Konami obviously deeply loves it's Gradius series. Wether they continue on with the main series or not isn't really all that big of a deal because we know we'll always get new Gradius in some form or another ^.^

Awesome; thanks for the news!

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:55 am

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

This is very true. The main reason I got a PS2 when it first came out was because of Gradius III and IV.

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:44 am

As long as Gradius lives on, it really doesn't matter what platform Konami chooses.
I think it'd be interesting to see how Konami does making a new Gradius by themselves, and how different it could be from Treasure's V.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:30 am

Looks like this news was bogus. On Konami Japan's website they issued this page today in response to Famitsu's report:

http://www.konami.jp/gs/info.html

It says the games reported to be cancelled are actually not cancelled but rather their release dates are currently unknown. So it looks like there probably will be Gradius on the PS3, some day.

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:34 am

Superb news. Hopefully I'll have managed to 1cc V before it comes out.

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:50 am

IGN sucks at confirming things... because we know now that Gradius 6 isn't canceled they're just trying to make next-gen that's why it's taking so long

Afterbirth · Post by **Afterbirth** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:15 am

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71740

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:20 pm

Haha, I was just about to post that. Let's hope they're right!

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:50 pm

See, i was never worried. Gradius will always be. The shooting continues!!!

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:48 pm

twe wrote:Looks like this news was bogus. On Konami Japan's website they issued this page today in response to Famitsu's report:

http://www.konami.jp/gs/info.html

It says the games reported to be cancelled are actually not cancelled but rather their release dates are currently unknown. So it looks like there probably will be Gradius on the PS3, some day.

That's welcome news indeed. And I'd like to second what TF said, even if it was cancelled, Konami has still been good to shmup fans this year with the 4 PSP comps.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:24 am

Hooray! (Topic in my IRC chatroom was set to "Gradius uncancelled" so I ran here to see.)

Chin up, everybody.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:31 pm

Last night i dreamed this was coming out, developed in house at Konami by the usual Gradius team but with inspiration taken from Gradius V. Now unfortunatly the video preview i was dreaming about was talking about how Konami wanted to take advantage of the next gen graphics by switching to a behind the ship view at various points. What i was seeing on the screen looked like balls. Luckily this was just a dream. ^.^

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:10 pm

Haha, odd stuff! Ususally when I dream about games that don't actually exist, they're awesome and I feel deeply disappointed in the morning.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:32 pm

Don't give up hope. Saw a pre-order list today in the UK and.............

Gradius PS3 (not 6) was on the list with a date of

30/11/07 or for you Americans 11/30/07

Source - http://www.play.com/Search.aspx?searcht ... &pa=search

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:44 pm

neorichieb1971 wrote:Gradius PS3 (not 6) was on the list with a date of

30/11/07 or for you Americans 11/30/07

This has got the US Radirgy release written all over it.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:02 pm

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... /ref=nosim

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:03 pm

If this is anything like Otomedius we can expect:

-no bullets
-big hitbox
-life bar

postman · Post by **postman** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:05 pm

Two months away and no pics or other news about it?

I say don't trust amazon........

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:30 pm

I'm not really a big Gradius fan, but V is one of my top shmups ever. Of course, I love Treasure's shooters.

Now, if they can get it as good as Gaiden(which was the best Konami Gradius), and get rid of that stupid restart after you die shit, i'll be all over this. Maybe the PS3 will be below 500 dollars by THEN. God, what a psycho expensive machine.

s/m

-Bridget- · Post by **-Bridget-** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:59 am

I just cant get into Gradius as much as I used to.

Used to be my favorite shmup ever.....

.....but then I discovered Cave.

I havent really gone back to Konami since.

And certain parts of the design of V irritated the heck outta me (so I dont play it very much).

Still, it's sorta nice to see it being continued......

........well, sorta. If it were on something that WASNT the PS3, I'd consider buying it.

But since it is the PS3, well, screw that......

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:27 am

-Bridget- wrote:I just cant get into Gradius as much as I used to.

Used to be my favorite shmup ever.....

.....but then I discovered Cave.

I havent really gone back to Konami since.

And certain parts of the design of V irritated the heck outta me (so I dont play it very much).

Still, it's sorta nice to see it being continued......

........well, sorta. If it were on something that WASNT the PS3, I'd consider buying it.

But since it is the PS3, well, screw that......

O rly? Then please konami to make that game for that hardware failure 360, maybe it has 3-year warranty but it's heat during games sucks balls (if your room is 35^C for example) Xbox 360 will be 100^C :O on standard room temperature 22^C it would be 87^C.... god screw you microsoft fanboys (Those heat stats were done by japanese who wanted to discover the truth about overheating of that FAILURE)

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:34 am

I love V even though I'm terrible at it, but why oh why does VI have to be on the PS3...it's a shmup, it's not like the graphics are going to matter whatsoever. Why not release it on the Wii, much larger install base and it'll be cheaper to develop, plus with all the shmups on the Virtual Console people might be more willing to try it out. It's not exactly much like Geometry Wars...