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Also, it sounds like there may actually not have been a Microsoft deal. Atleast, not when they chose to put it on 360.

Preliminary work for Tales of Vesperia began in 2005 during the later development stages of Tales of the Abyss, which released that year.[16][17] Due to the success of Abyss, Vesperia was initially planned as a title for the PlayStation 2. However, upon seeing the projected lifespan of sixth-generation consoles, the executives at Namco Bandai informed the team that Abyss would be the last Tales title of that generation.[17] In addition to this, the team felt limited by the previous generation's hardware. In response, they decided to make the next flagship installment on next-generation hardware. At the time when a platform was chosen, the PlayStation 3 had yet to be shown to the company and the Xbox 360 was highly popular in the west, so they settled on the latter. Being on that platform, the team were also able to make use of Xbox Live, enabling trophy and online ranking implementation

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