Possible localization files found in Tales of Xillia

Hope for localization grows stronger.

9.11.11 / 21:51 / Sal Romano

In July, Tales series producer Makoto Yoshizumi said Tales of Xillia would see a western release if fans showed enough enthusiasm. Either fans have properly shown that enthusiasm or Namco Bandai is just playing it safe, because the Japanese release of Tales of Xillia contains what look to be localization files for different languages, including English, French, and Italian.

The files were spotted by Aeana, who posted her findings on Twitter (1, 2, 3): “Poked around in Xillia‘s files. Found something interesting: all of the game’s text is in files named *.SDBJPN. Every string has a constant identifier, such as STR_BTL_TUT_CHAIN_ALVIN. The interesting thing is that there are other SDB files: SDBENG, SDBFRA, SDBITA, etc… all have the same identifiers associated with empty strings. So the game seems to be localization-ready.”

Namco Bandai has yet to confirm an overseas release.

If Tales of Xillia is localized it won't be release until 2013 at the least.

Wah! Xxain you beat me in posting a thread with Japanese stuff again. I am about to post this. 

OT: That's great to hear. At least there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Do it Namco I dare you with my money!! 

Just replace Immortality with money. LOL

It doesn't surprise me in the least, the amount of hype for this game was pretty crazy, and it's selling great too, so Namco would be dumb not to bring it over. It's also a Team Symphonia game and we've gotten all of them in some form or another so it's looking promising.

YeeesssSSSsSSssssSs there is hope

Destiny and Symponia both worked on this one, no? Though I might just be misremembering something that just referred to the split design work. 

Why wouldn't it be released here?

Every major Tales game got localized on at least one platform. And I don't think Tales of Xillia will be ported on the 360 or the Wii.

I dont think that means alot, but I am pretty positive were getting it. I mean come on they wanted 400,000 max at first they did more than that in a week. Though until then im ready for graces f.