I hate to follow Christmas with bad news, but since we’ve talked about Xenosaga remaster hopes in the past, I wanted to blog about the latest development.
As you might remember, a few years back Bandai Namco producer Katsuhiro Harada asked for fans to show support for a potential Xenosaga HD collection.
A petition was started, and although it didn’t get as much support as it needed, Harada said it was still possible and that he would look for another way.
Unfortunately, his latest update about this was less optimistic. According to Harada, they made progress on plans for potential Xenosaga remasters, but it “failed in a profitable market analysis.” He went on to say it will be difficult for this to resurface.
It seems like we won’t be seeing Xenosaga HD anytime soon…
Do you think a Xenosaga remaster would be unprofitable for Bandai Namco? Will we ever see Xenosaga resurface in the future? Share your thoughts in the comments!
I do hope it comes back someday. It’s difficult thinking of all the games that might be lost to time because they don’t get digitized or even re-released in their original forms.
Yeah, that’s unfortunate. I wish they’d at least port them.
That is a shame.
Yeah. :/ I’m still surprised .hack//GU got a remaster and Xenosaga didn’t. I would have expected Xenosaga to have more name recognition.