Konami Explains Why No More Heroes HD is PS3 Only in West

Speaking in an interview with GameSugar, Konami’s Tak Fuji has revealed new details about the HD port of Goichi Suda-san’s No More Heroes, while also clarifying why the HD remake is now a PS3 exclusive outside of its home country. Though the infamous Wii remastering was released on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 in Japan in April of this year, only a motion controlled version will make the jump out of Nippon in 2011 for Sony’s Move device. Konami’s Tak Fuji explains why a Kinect version isn’t happening. At least not yet:

By having the PlayStation Move controller, it’s much easier to keep the interaction true to the original, so going to the PS3 was a pretty natural choice. We have, and are still, tossing around ideas for linking NMH with the Kinect for Xbox 360 gamers, but since the Kinect is such a unique device, it’s a bit more difficult. This isn’t to say that the Kinect is a poor interface by any means, but more that in its uniqueness it requires a bit more care and planning to bring Travis to the Xbox 360. So if we were to do so, we’d need more time.

Fuji also went on to reveal that all of the added bosses to No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise are actually lifted straight from the Wii’s No More Heroes 2, making the HD port not only bigger than its Wii precursor but completely in tune with the design of the overall series.

Source: GameSugar