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Million on 12 May 2009
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starcraft said:
Million said:
starcraft said:
Yojimbo said:
"Are there many people who would like to play with Japanese voices?”" Yes ffs!

No.

Come on.  Of all the millions of copies an Xbox 360 version of FFXIII might sell, I doubt if there would be 100,000 prospective buyers that would voluntarily play through the title in Japanese if the option was offered.

lol you know so little..

Now there is an eloquent counterargument.

You realise that we are talking about the combining of two miniscule sub-niches to create the population that would utilise this feature?  It consists of:

-Japanese living in the West who feel like playing in their native tongue/Westerners learning Japanese who play Final Fantasy and wish to play in Japanese.

-Pretentious internet-dwellers who believe they alone are experiencing Final Fantasy the way it was meant to be by playing in a language they do not comprehend.

 

Dont get me wrong, I will probably get the game on PS3 because that is where I will have to get Versus, but the argument that the removal of this feature will have any substantial effect on sales is ridiculous.

 

 

The Anime scene is a big indicator of the possible demand for Japanese audio with english subs ( The anime demographic are generaly the JRPG demographic also ).


-Anime is becoming increasingly popular in west ( Naruto,  Bleach , One Piece & Cowboy Beepop ..the list is endless)


-Most commercial anime is released in the west is released with japanese audio & english subs.

-No self respecting Anime fan above the age of 12 would watch Anime in english.

-If there was the option to have japanese audio with english subs in the biggest JRPG this gen , you can bet your life there'd be huge demand for it.