| Oniichan said: It's funny how you blame Japan for not doing WW releases when they have to translate the game from Japanese to English but you fail to see that MOST games released by western developers dont get a WW release in Japan. Sometimes Japan has to wait 3-6months or more for a western developed game to be translated and released in Japan. Talk about looking at only one side of the coin. Im all for WW releases though and wish the majority of games were WW but its costly and theres a chance of x game bombing in X country could put the dev's company in the red. Not a good business move. |
As we were saying in this thread, games from small developers or niche games like katamari is an exception since they obviously do better in Japan. As to say I'm not considering Western games, remember that we're talking about games that would obviously do well abroad. Games like katamari will no doubt get overlooked no matter how fast they are released in the West, and the same can be said about Western games being released in Japan. For sure titles that can be sold worldwide however, the longer they take to get it localized, the less sales they will make.
An example would be Gran Turismo 5, it is a title that will do well world wide. However if they take too long to get it localized for certain markets, the consumers may pick something else up during the time. Other games might not be as great, but it will chip away the hype by the time it releases (not to mention pockets).
You could say I'm only looking at one side of the coin, but for major publishers, shouldn't they be looking at both sides too.
