nepro japan industry video game industry founded march 1995 headquarters tokyo japan key people yoshiharu gotanda president masaki norimoto designer motoi sakuraba composer joe asanuma former president products star ocean series 1996 present valkyrie profile series 1999 2009 owner independent 1995 2015 nepro japan 2015 number of employees 130 parent nepro japan website tri ace.co.jp tri ace inc. kabushiki gaisha torai su is a japanese video game development company formed in march 1995 by former telenet japan employees yoshiharu gotanda programmer current tri ace president masaki norimoto game designer and joe asanuma director . the name is a play on words regarding the three aces who formed the company . most of tri ace s games have been published by square enix formerly enix . the group exclusively makes role playing video games and is known for giving their games action packed battle systems and deep skill systems . this trademark style began when the founders of tri ace originally worked for telenet japan s wolfteam and had created tales of phantasia . this game published by namco is a precursor to tri ace s own star ocean games in several ways ; e.g. an action battle system where the player controls one character and ai controls others in the party and special battle skills that the player can assign to different buttons . besides the star ocean series they also released valkyrie profile in 1999 . their 2010 release of resonance of fate was taken to sega publishing . tri ace games have sold over 3.8 million copies worldwide as of september 2005 . 1 the company s sound programmer hiroya hatsushiba formed tri crescendo in 1999 which has since developed several games independently of tri ace . japanese mobile company nepro japan acquired tri ace in february 2015 . 2 despite being acquired by a company focusing on mobile gaming tri ace will continue developing video games for consoles . 3 games developed edit title year publisher s platform s region s star ocean 1996 enix snes jp star ocean the second story 1998 playstation jp na eu valkyrie profile 1999 jp na star ocean blue sphere 2001 game boy color jp star ocean till the end of time 2003 playstation 2 jp star ocean til the end of time director s cut 2004 square enix jp na aus eu radiata stories 2005 jp na valkyrie profile 2 silmeria 2006 jp na aus eu infinite undiscovery 2008 xbox 360 na aus eu jp valkyrie profile covenant of the plume nintendo ds jp na eu aus star ocean the last hope 2009 xbox 360 jp na aus eu resonance of fate 2010 sega xbox 360 playstation 3 star ocean the last hope international square enix playstation 3 hoshigami no taijyu lemuta 2011 yahoo browser game jp final fantasy xiii 2 4 square enix playstation 3 xbox 360 microsoft windows jp na aus eu frontier gate konami playstation portable jp beyond the labyrinth 2012 nintendo 3ds little battlers experience w level 5 playstation portable playstation vita frontier gate boost 2013 konami playstation portable lightning returns final fantasy xiii 5 square enix playstation 3 xbox 360 microsoft windows jp na aus eu silent scope bone eater 2014 konami arcade jp judas code tri ace playstation vita phantasy star nova sega chronos ring 2015 konami ios android exist archive the other side of the sky spike chunsoft playstation 4 playstation vita jp na star ocean integrity and faithlessness 2016 square enix playstation 3 playstation 4 jp na eu heaven inferno ntt docomo ios android jp references edit tri ace company sales . tri ace.co.jp . retrieved 2008 07 19 . matulef jeffrey february 20 2015 . star ocean developer tri ace acquired by japanese mobile company . eurogamer . gamer network . retrieved february 21 2015 . don t worry tri ace will keep making games for consoles . siliconera . 2015 03 09 . retrieved 2015 03 09 . tri ace helped out with final fantasy xiii 2 . siliconera . 2011 12 18 . archived from the original on 2013 03 14 . retrieved 2013 02 10 . spencer 2013 11 13 . nora won t return for lightning returns final fantasy xiii . siliconera . archived from the original on 2013 12 06 . retrieved 2013 11 13 . external links edit official website tri ace profile at mobygames retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tri ace & oldid 737637216 categories companies based in tokyocompanies established in 1995video game development companiesvideo game companies of japantri acehidden categories articles containing japanese language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa olfran ais portugu s svenska edit links this page was last modified on 4 september 2016 at 03 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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