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outlawauron said:
the_dengle said:
outlawauron said:

Wow. I give at least 9-12 months before thinking, "well, where's the announcement". Especially on a series that no one really cares about in the West.

I would be much more patient if it weren't for all the people saying, "hey, don't worry, it's coming." If you can say that, if you're not breaking some kind of NDA by telling everyone that, why hasn't there been an official announcement? Just why not? Especially with other companies stepping up their game as much as they have, Atlus bringing SMT over so soon, Pokémon getting a simultaneous global release -- the silly two-year localization delays have got to end, even with lesser-known series and new IP. It's partly a marketing matter. 20 years ago, you wouldn't even have heard about Bravely Default until it was announced for America. These days, we know about it almost as soon as Japanese gamers do -- and if we have to wait an entire additional year for the game, that's a lot of time for the hype to die down. It benefits Square Enix to either localize the game in a timely manner or keep the hype train rolling by trickling information to us about the game until it's ready for release. Letting it launch in Japan and then sitting on it with not a mention of the game in the West for over 6 months isn't helping them.

As for Dragon Quest, Terry's Wonderland 3D came out over 10 months ago, and at that point folks like Soriku are already declaring it a "lost cause." DQX came out over 8 months ago. DQVII may be a fairly recent release, but if they're announcing DQ XI for 3DS in Japan while at the same time announcing Terry's Wonderland 3D for America, no one is going to care about Terry's Wonderland, for the reasons I mentioned above.

Really. Square is a big company. It doesn't take that long to translate a game. It doesn't take that many resources. They should be able to do this small thing.

My perspective is very different. I'm pleasantly surprised by the speed of most localizations. They're generally much faster than the awful waits for main FF games of old. I don't think the Game Boy remake for 3DS is going to come over. Maybe a smaller company might pick it up, but I don't see it being Square's time.


About Terry's Wonderland, well Nintendo said they will localize a lot of 3DS games themselves.