Tales PS Vita games haven’t been brought to North America due to poor sales

[Chris Hu]

outlawauron said:

Soriku said:

VGKing said:
What are their excuses for not bringing over the PS3 Tales games?

The only they aren't planning on bringing over is Vesperia PS3, probably because they already released Vesperia over here. Other than that, there's Graces F, Xillia, and Xillia 2. Graces F already came over, Xillia is coming in August, and Xillia 2 is likely to be localized as well. I hope they change their minds about Vesperia PS3 (as late as it is) but I doubt it'll happen :/

outlawauron said:

MikeRox said:
The voice actors in Japan apparently only license their vocals for use in the Japanese market. So even just subbing the game, would require re licensing all the vocals. I don't get why they don't just use N64 language and go "blu blu blu" to everything XD

90% of the time, this is not true. Different voice actors are with companies that charge higher fees than others, but most publishers are far too cheap to pay for them. That's really what it boils down to, not wanting to pay for the rights.

They kept the English version of the song for Graces F and they're keeping the original Japanese song for Xillia so that's good.

Doesn't that sound so assinine? Nearly all of their work is already done!

And I liked what Namco did with Vesperia's song. They had Bonnie Pink sing the song in English and it sounded great imo.

The PS3 version of  Vesperia has the Japanese version of the song.