Final Fantasy XIII Not Due in U.S. Until 2010!!

[The_vagabond7]

Christhor said:

Hawk said:

Christhor said:
How can it take so long to translate. MGS4 was released simultaneously all around the world, and that game has more dialouge then the FF games. I'm guessing this means FFXIII won't be out before 2012 and VersusXIII will come out after Duke Nukem Forever. Square sucks

I don't believe localization is simply dialogue.

 

But it's what takes the longest time, am i rite?

Not really. Translation takes the shortest time, a great deal of programming is necessary though on the technical side. Japanese letters and written language is vastly different from western languages and the formatting is drastically different. Take a word in a menu that uses 3 characters in Japanese and 9 in english and then try to insert it, the whole menu crashes and then the game crashes. The Menus, pulldowns, inventories, sign posts everything have to be reprogrammed in order to have it in english. Read the blogs of the guys that did the translation of Mother 3. Translating was easy, it was all the programming that was a pain.

 

Plus MGS4 doesn't have more text and vocals than a 40-60 hour RPG that is text heavy and fully spoken. Vocals it might be comprable but text, not even close.