Cave shooters denied XBLA release by Microsoft

by Jason Dobson on Mar 30th 2008 1:00PM

Recently Xbox Live Arcade has shown considerable potential as a home for shoot 'em ups, from the Forgotten Worlds-channeling Omega Five to monochrome shooter Ikaruga's looming release. However, to hear talk from 5pb, the devs charged with bringing Cave's nefarious DoDonPachi series as well as its latest shooter Ketsui to XBLA's digital frontier, the platform still has a few nagging hang ups keeping it from becoming a beacon for shmups.

Echoing N+ developer Metanet's recent comments concerning what does and does not make it to the service, 5pb spoke out about similar frustrations in the latest issue of Famitsu, revealing that both of its ports of DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou Black Label X and Ketsui X had been summarily rejected for release over XBLA, with Microsoft claiming that it's "going to cut down on faithful arcade ports." Only faithful ones?

We agree that there is certainly a glut of arcade nonsense on XBLA, but this is equivalent to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. 5pb and Cave are reportedly now working to bring both games to market through traditional retail channels in a defiant effort to show Microsoft "that their decision was wrong." Now all we need is a publisher with an eye for niche Japanese releases to pick the games up for release outside of Japan. Altus, are you listening?

[Via Xbox 360 Fanboy]

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Tags: cave, DoDonPachi, famitsu, Ikaruga, Ketsui, metanet, n-plus, nplus, omega-five, omegafive, port, shmup, xbla, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (76)

i can has moar pacman?

So weak. So effing weak. Dodonpachi is one of the best shooters *EVER*, and DOJ deserves a wider release than the PS2 Japan-only it has gotten so far.

I'll buy it.

Jsaon, are you listening?

of course, Microsoft denied it.
THEY WANT MOAR FPS.

Its a shame Microsoft isn't using Xbox Live Arcade to its full potential. In this sense, the PlayStation Store is truly showing a vast array of amazing games.

It is the time now where more developers will put thier games on the PSN due to the crap on XBLA.

Honestly which idiot at Microsoft didn't let this title on XBLA but the god damn Toyota games on?

I just went over all of your previous comments. Wow do you seem like a Sony plant. Please don't give me any of this my son's gamertag is... BS.

"the PlayStation Store is truly showing a vast array of amazing games" Are you kidding me?! I bought flow - played it once. I bought Blast Factor - played it once. I bought Piyotama - played it once. The only game I have continued to play from their vast array of amazing games is Everyday Shooter. I guess maybe you were talking about Super Rub a Dub or Pixel Junk Racers?!

How can you compare that to a service that has stuff like Castlevania SOTN, Rez HD, Puzzle Quest, Geometry Wars, Bomberman, PacMAn CE, Poker Smash, etc?

I have no doubt PSN will get better over time, but you are way out of line.

@Bloo

Okay, but that is my gamertag... give me yours and i will accept your friend request and send you a message even showing you that I do in fact have XBL.

You obviously haven't picked very good games.

Let me give you a list on games you might be interested in:

Calling All Cars
Echochrome
GT 5 Prolouge
Warhawk
Gran Turismo HD
Mortal Kombat 2
Pain
PixelJunk Monsters
Socom Confrontation
Super Stardust HD
Tekken 5: DR
Wipeout HD

and those are only some of the games...

You're both idiots for doing the list wars.

Aren't like 4 of those games not even out yet?

@scotty

Only Socom and Wipeout aren't.

ADVANCED LIST WARS

List Wars: Days of Fanboys

List Wars: Dual Stupidity

List Wars Episode 2: Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V

I'd just like to point out that Castlevania SOTN is indeed available on PSN. Playable both on the PS3 and the PSP under s single purchase.

Thanks!

I hope the 360 version is region free. If not, then maybe they will also consider a PS3 version, which will make this a no brainer.

360 titles aren't region free...

some are

Off Topic:

http://kotaku.com/373721/kotaku-named-best-worldwide-resource-for-video-games-in-denver

Tssssssss... Joystiq, we need more publicity... we are better than them =p

Triple A post will read again.

hate to say it, but Kotaku covers the Japan scene much better. Of course most of that coverage is in H games and Akihabara cosplay fests... so maybe having the lesser coverage is better.

God am I the only one who remembers that Kotaku started a "war" with Joystiq?

I'm not much of a fan of their pee-stained yellow color scheme. It find it to be rough on the eyes.

At least their comments allow for HTML...

And trolls don't last so long there, too.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/kotaku-unlocks-the-bonus-round-part-i-281131.php

Read the comments... a lot of traitors =(

I remember when Rubang B defected to VGChartz and ran up his introductory thread over on their forums

What was said is pretty much the same, there are a lot of joystiq haters out there

Wii is the true home of shoot-em-ups. Especially considering TG-16's library.

Oops I got distracted by Mythbusters marathon. That was supposed to be a separate post.
Since they ban people so much it just invites more trash. I can't believe they banned me for night vision eye patching pirates. I mean supposedly the head editor is a pirate. Must have seen I'm a ninja.

Like Wong said, Kotaku cover Japan better.

But, they do seem to toot their own horn a bit. Plus, I get the impression they think they're actually journalists. All this while ignoring the golden rules of journalism such as integrity. (that sonic article for example)

Here is the link from Rubang B post on VGChartz...

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=12495

I miss that guy... he was an awesome commenter. And he left Joystiq all because stupid Vladimir Cole.

What a fucking idiot was Vladimir Cole:

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/14/an-honest-question-wouldnt-you-rather-companies-subsidize-your/

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/15/penny-arcade-responds-to-our-hideous-editorial-misses-the-poi/

lol at the Vladimir hate

i still miss epobirs...

"And trolls don't last so long there, too."

This is ultimately why I kinda like Kotaku more. I like Joystiq because it's more lively and fun and the community seems more tight knit together (Kotaku's is more personal, though), but I know that there's a real risk that if Joystiq were to adopt Kotaku's banning policies it would be less lively.
I don't mind the rampant fanboyism, so much as the hate it unleashes and doesn't get reigned in ever.

Way to bring up the past with old Vladimir Cole there Fernando! Haha. I remember back in those days with old Rubang on here.

I kinda miss them honestly, though I wasn't as active of a member as I am now. And while I'm generally a joystiquers, I will on occasion jump over to kotaku see what's going on there. But I've never been a dtoid fan..evar...

Later gents

oh and samfish, I like the daisy love!

Fernando, I agree that Joystiq is nigh on the best website on the whole damned webernet.
But the speed and ease at which you can pull up old threads is, well, worrying. We need to talk about that.

As leader of the NDF - Joystiq Branch I hereby revoke Rubang's NDF membership AND heart ring.

I also support the Cole hate (he was a doosh) and wish Epobirs would return. He had so many pretty pretty stars.

Its spelled "douche"

It's really sad that shmups are being released on XBLA, they should be released on a japanese console. I would never buy a Microsoft console so if it gets exclusive games that's a bad thing for me.

I can understand that Microsoft is paying a lot of money for shmups and jRPG exclusives to try to get the console to sell in Japan, but enough already.

I'm pretty sure 360 is dead in Japan and Microsoft has given up... They've lost that war.

Wii will continue to win in Japan... That is until Final Fantasy XIII comes out!

@sheppy,
Once again, you miscomprehend one of my posts and dare to call it a list post. Just do me a favor and go draw another Liger (I know, I know, it's like only one of the coolest animals ever) while making some more cool "Games". To be honest, I used to draw Ligers and make games too. Only thing is, I was making games on a Atari 130XE. Oh yeah, and I was thirteen not mid twenties...

I'm not sheppy? I don't understand your post to be honest.

Also:

"Once again, you miscomprehend one of my posts and dare to call it a list post"

"Castlevania SOTN, Rez HD, Puzzle Quest, Geometry Wars, Bomberman, PacMAn CE, Poker Smash, etc?"

wat?

You are right. You are not sheppy. Sheppy knows who sheppy is. Thanks for responding anyway. Twice.

It was a list post... I called it a list post. List posts suck. You suck. Plus, Napoleon Dynamite references? The hell are you thinking? All the cool kids quit with those long ago... they are now currently swimming about WWE taunts and Hallmark cards.

All the cool kids are making SWAT Kats references

...at least in my little dream-world, they are

"Bring me chopper backup!"

I'd prefer Exo=Squad references.... just because I want to quote Blonkski most days... but yelling at NeoSapian Bastards only seems to work in a cartoon, so instead I yell at old ladies walking in the mall for their exercise...

"You'll never get away with this!"

I somewhat agree with microsofts decision. we dont need more crappy arcade shooters. I cant believe any1 is actually looking forward to palying ikaruga. Like havent you played that game enough? ITs been ported 1000 times before.

Although microsoft should just allow the game anyway, and stop with this 1 or 2 games released a wednesday nonsense. If there are alot of games, then release them. 7 or 8 games a wednesday if need be.

Your post.

It contradicts.

um yeah. so, I've played Ikaruga, but it can be pretty hard to find at retail, even in used game stores. I like it, but don't really want to pay $40 for a USED copy. Same thing for Rez HD; played it, loved it, even bought it on ebay (twice) because I enjoyed it so much (also first copy = stolen). Maybe you like to play a game once, and then never again, but some people enjoy replaying the game and/or having a backup copy.

so, relax!

And THIS is what happens when your service enforces some sort of "quality control" on incoming content

It's not like the fanboys run these corporations, often quality control means games like Toyota Yaris get through, while these get denied. Quality control is totally different to them than it is to us

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