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Forums - Sony Discussion - Sony needs to make big push for localizing Japanese games

I'm really digging the PS4 lineup for Japan next year. But almost none of them have actually been confirmed for the West yet. Some of them will get localized sure but it'll probably take a year and we might not even get a retail release. Yakuza Zero looks amazing but who knows if we'll ever get it? Persona 5 is probably going to be the best JRPG of 2015 but i'm sure it will take at least 6 months to localize. It probably won't even happen until 2016. 

Sony has a big advantage over the other two with plenty of Japanese support. They just need to take advantage of it. Plenty of Western fans love Japanese games, and they can help fill in the gaps between Sony's own first party titles. 

My two cents. 



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How much power does Sony have in this situation? Because it's other companies that are developing/publishing these titles.



Aj_habfan said:
How much power does Sony have in this situation? Because it's other companies that are developing/publishing these titles.

Give them some sort of incentive. At least get them to test the waters and see how the market responds. If Sega localizes the new Yakuza then that could give them enough convidence to continue localizing games. 



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

I do think that JRPGs or Japanese titles in general are somewhat niche over here, but surely the overhead of simply translating game text from Japanese to English can't be that high. It seems like PS4 is the true successor to PS2 though and from the looks of it, many devs who jumped off are jumping back on so let's see how this plays out.



Persona will take 6 months to localise... Im failing to see the issue here.
They can take as long as they need, better than getting a rushed job. Persona games have amazing localisations.
And their are plenty of JP games we will recieve within 6 or so months of their Japanese release, no need to rush them over here.
And Yakuza is dead =(



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£100 bet yakuza will be in PSEXP



I agree...

But I know none of those games would sell incredibly well so, Sony probably wouldnt do it



Sony already made the console region free to encourage people to learn Japanese. What more do you want?



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Foot part of the bill or create a translation group (could be crowdsourced and bring the goodies.



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fireburn95 said:
£100 bet yakuza will be in PSEXP

You don't even know you already lost.