Phantasy Star Online 2 "Will End Up On All Platforms" Eventually

Setting ourselves up for disappointment aren't we?

@Rika_Yoshitake

Why? Is it a bad game or something?

I read that this game wasnt that great.

I knew that it wasn't console exclusive! Otherwise they would've stated it.

I don't really care about MMOs, but I'll be there Day 1 for this regardless of the platform it's on. We need to show Sega that there actually is interest in the Phantasy Star franchise in the west. It's a fantastic (phantastic?) series that deserves so much more attention.

@Spudtendo PSO2 is a great game. I think he's just pointing out the fact that the game was suppose to be released in the west years ago.

It now has a re-accouncement for a 2020 release for Windows 10 and Xbox 1. The chance is slim coming to Switch. But be nice to be proven wrong on this.

I put a ton of hours into the Gamecube versions of the game. Even if it's half of the original GC games, I'm going to lap it up.

@Shade_Koopa
Read Phil’s comment, the likeliness depends on if Sega West wants to bring the streaming Switch version over convince Sega Japan to make a native port, a native Switch port is a smart investment but Sega is known for their poor decision making skills.

1 year exclusive - Starting from Spring 2020.

So basically waiting till Spring 2021 to then hope "next is Switch". Yeah, Good luck with that

Life is to short - I'll just get it on PC. Waited long enough.

This is great news! I'll play it on PC until then, hopefully I will be able to carry my progress.

Then again, I can just make another character.

@Agramonte I don't think it can be that hard, they already have functional versions for both PS4 and Switch.

If the translation is already done just copy paste that s**t!

@Spudtendo probably because Sega has an awful track record of hollow promises when it comes to Phantasy Star.

There's not just a chance, if he says it's coming to all platforms, then it is. He went to discuss with them about Phantasy Star, so if he's saying it like that, that means it was mentioned during their talks as a timed exclusive.

@meltendo That's Phantasy Star Online 1. This plays nothing like 1 and isn't 1. The combat, story, cutscenes, char creation, world, UI----are all better.

@meltendo I think you’re getting Phantasy Star Online Episode 2 confused with Phantasy Star Online 2. The former was released bundled with Episode 1 for the GameCube. The latter hasn’t been released in the West yet.

It only took them 8 years to localize it.

@DarkKirby ikr it upsets me the fact that it took SEGA that long to localize this game, it is such a fun game to play!

I hope it's true and our Switch version is a cloud free version.

@Rika_Yoshitake You realise it released on Switch first right over a year ago?

@Starcakes Cross-play for online game means cross progression. At least with PSO2 JPN. Which is nice.
If you mean transfer progress from the JPN server to the US server, that is highly unlikely.

@SalvorHardin Exactly. Let's hope Microsoft has influence over this.

Spencer loves to talk, but Nintendo showed more gameplay than the whole MS conference. He can be a PR nightmare. Anyways, it is great that this is finally happening in the west.

The only downside on xbox is you need gold subscription of course. So at the end this game isn't free at all. Not sure about Sony and Nintendo at this

@Alucard83 As I understand it, free-to-play titles do not require PS Plus on PlayStation as they are monitized a different way. Not 100% certain but pretty sure I heard this recently.

Sweet memories with PSO on Cube and (mostly) 360 era. Manymany hours of greatness :')

I would really like to try this game, so if it’s released on Switch in the west, I’m definitely getting it.

Only took SEGA a decade, even after all the continuously high international demand (countless people were restricted and banned off the Asian and Japanese servers) and loss of millions of (f-t-p) sales, but very cool. Hopefully there will be spinoff titles (perhaps similar to offline-heavy DS game Phantasy Star Zero, for example) after they discover how much their other markets pay and love this franchise.

@Xelha I think Microsoft is helping Sega do this since they are too incompetent (after all, Sega kept announcing an international release on and off for the past decade, and nothing, until now). Clearly they have to start small and then work their way up to more systems and business partnerships. If (effectively third-party company) Microsoft wasn't guiding them and keeping this structured, Sega would likely ruin this for all of us, unfortunately.

I vaguely remember trying Giant Bombcast years ago and not bring that enamoured with it. Will give it another go.

Long overdue. I loved the PSO on DC and GC and it's probably my most played game ever. I even liked PSOU on the 360 so I'm highly interested in this.

If this is true, I'd definitely would like to play on Switch too. With cross-play, I can start playing with the PC version and then the progress carries over to Switch if I should play there.

I loved PSO on Dreamcast so much, even though I've played offline, whether it's PC or if it comes to Switch, I'm going to be playing this.

Well, its about time. We get a new sonic game every few years and something different every decade from Sega.

Yes, this is a Sega title that I would very much like to play on my Nintendo Switch.

I guess i"ll have to play the game myself to find out if its good or not, cause everyone is saying "the game is bad the game is good" over n over.
Anyways the game sounds fun but l need to see gameplay first.

PSO 2 was translated in to English way back in 2012 itself, and has had an active English community on Ship 2 for all these years. If you want to play the game in English, head over to Arks-layer.com, which has all the files and guides you need to get started playing the game in English on PC. It's not all that graphically demanding, either and runs very well, even on my old 2014 laptop at 60fps.

@Gauchorino the offline-heavy version of PSO2 at the moment would be Phantasy Star Nova, which I think was ever only released on PS Vita. But hey, they could possibly port it.
PSO2 PC is decent. The English patch doesn’t translate everything though, unless that has changed recently. PSO2 cloud on Switch... don’t expect to get it working there; some error everyone not in Japan gets that keeps ‘em from playing.
So ready to start all over on US servers, regardless of getting PSO2 Cloud.

@geo-shifter I wasn't aware of these things. Thanks for this info.

@Shade_Koopa There is a Japanese "Cloud" version of the game on the Switch so it wouldn't be too far off if they release it for the Switch

@Utamagoyaki That why I said slim chance. I don't think our Network infrastructure would be able to support a cloud game. Not like how Japan's infrastructure is.