Tales of Vesperia Blu-ray unlocks additional PS3 content

by Andrew Yoon on Jan 27th 2010 2:30PM

Tales of Vesperia continues gracing the PS3 with more and more content. The First Strike, an animated film prequel to the game, will be available on Blu-ray in Japan and it'll unlock extra costumes for the PS3 version of the game. (Undoubtedly, this will make some Xbox 360 owners quite angry.)

This isn't the first time a Blu-ray has been enhanced for the PS3. Most recently, District 9 featured a playable God of War III demo. Zombieland also includes a dynamic XMB theme. However, Tales of Vesperia seems to be charting new territory by unlocking additional game content via a Blu-ray movie. It's certainly an interesting experiment: one we'd like to see more and more movies take advantage of. See a trailer for the movie after the break.

[Via Andriasang]

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Tags: anime, blu-ray, namco-bandai, tales-of-vesperia, tales-of-vesperia-first-strike

Reader Comments (15)

Maybe Sega will do the same for Valkyria Chronicles. The DLC bundled up with the anime on bluray or something like that.

A trophy patch would be fine too.

hmm thats nice, for JAPAN! y dont they bring it here! theyve already got the english translations from the 360 version, i dont think itll take that much effort to bring here. there r way more ps3 users than when valkyria chronicles was launched, and tales of vesperia is a more recognizable name, i think sales wise itll do fine.

Seriously, I wish they would bring the ps3 version stateside. I own the 360 version, but I would definitely buy a copy for my ps3.

My anger grows daily as I see this game is still not getting any closer to a U.S. PS3 release.

Grrr... thought this was leading to a US PS3 release announcement. What's the hold up?

Why would it make me angry.. I've had it since day one.. and it's still in the wrapper.. :S

And yet the ocidental PS3 version of the game is still unhearded of.
: /

this should had been the blu-ray strategy from the very beginning.

trophies for watching a blu-ray
additional contents for games, themes, or for PS home.

well, better be late than never then, I guess.