Yoichi Wada has no sense of vision, SE being as big as it is (and now having Eidos) can do easily simultaneous releases of their big franchises, I even accept that Dragon Quest takes delay (although they shouldn't considering they're trying to expand DQ to the West), but Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts??? those games are meant to have simultaneous release, FF is the JRPG king of the West (After Pokemon, of course) and KH holds US records for SE titles...
Sony also is an offender, Gran Turismo is meant to be launched worldwide, i mean, it's their biggest franchise, popular in all areas. Ico titles have a little excuse, but a title that is meant to the western audience (Demon's Souls) to let Atlus publish it???, and i understand SCE/Level-5 titles because they have moderate sales, but the excessive WKC delay is completely inexcusable...
But i think the biggest offender is still Nintendo, i mean, Mario, Pokemon, Zelda??? no, they're so niche the West can wait... Come on...
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About the Western to Japan, i don't excuse them since they have the resources, but some publishers don't want to invest in a market really small, Japan doesn't like the majority of games from the West, even GTA, a franchise that is guaranteed to have huge sales, doesn't do even near as good in Japan, and when Rockstar and Take-Two see GTAIV numbers for example, they see this:
US: 7.06 million (53.69%)
Europe: 5.68 million (43.19%)
Japan: 0.41 million (3.12%)
That's why they don't even publish it in Japan, usually Capcom does it...
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