| Barozi said: Personally I'd say they're doing a pretty good job at localizing games for the European market, so I'm not sure why you bring those release dates up. Other similar sized companies are waaay worse. |
The problem is that Atlus don't have a European branch, therefore their games go without a PAL release unless someone else picks it up. For example Nintendo picked up the Trauma Centre games (but for some reasons passed on Trauma Team) and the first Etrain Oddyssey, Namco release Demon's Souls, Ghostlight brought over the Persona PSP games, and are doing the remake of DS1 as well as DS2 this year, they've also confirmed that they are doing another non-RPG 3DS game (I'm certain it is Code of Princess). The problem is that several medium-high profile Atlus games have gone without PAL releases, most iirc on the DS.
What we don't know is whether publishers skipped on the DS games because the fact that the platform is region-free will limit the market for a localisation as many would import upon US release, or just because they were on the DS. The former reason is supported by the fact that 3DS Atlus games are off to a good start PAL localisation wise (DS: Overclocked and probably Code of Princess), however the latter reasons might explain how the likes of Catherine and the PSP Persona games got European releases despite being on region free devices, but Etrian Oddyssey II and III, Strange Journey, 999, Devil Survivor (until the remake), etc didn't. If the reason is the later, and therefore EOIV, SMT4, Soul Hackers, etc miss out on European release on the region locked 3DS, that is not good at all.
