Related: What Star Wars: KOTOR Remake Could Learn From FF7 Remake's Story The KOTOR games and Morrowind were also released for PC, and Jade Empire later received a PC port, but none of these WRPG classics were available on other consoles. The Xbox hosted Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and BioWare’s Jade Empire, as well as KOTOR and KOTOR 2.

As WRPGs, unlike JRPGs, were typically developed primarily for PC, the PC-like architecture of the Xbox made ports much simpler. The Xbox had a unique selling point as the exclusive console home to some of the best Western RPGs of the generation, however. The KOTOR remake will launch for PC and PS5 simultaneously, and its console exclusivity is timed, not indefinite.ĭuring the generation where the original Xbox was up against the PS2, GameCube, and Dreamcast, the PS2 was by far the leader in exclusive JRPGs, with games like Final Fantasy 10, Dragon Quest 8, and the Xenosaga trilogy. While the initial reveal of the game understandably focused on the PlayStation side of things, subsequent tweets have clarified a few of these points. This created some confusion, both regarding the platforms the game will be available on, whether the console exclusivity is timed or long-term, and why a game that was originally an Xbox console exclusive would have a PlayStation console exclusive remake. The 2021 PlayStation Showcase included the announcement of Apsyr Media’s remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which will be a console exclusive for PS5 at launch.

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