No Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 localization to avoid possible "treatment of women" backlash

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SpokenTruth said:

Lawlight said:

SpokenTruth said:

Actually, it didn't.  Look at the western sales of the series and you tell me if it's worth the trouble of localizing when sales would be poor to start but must also now consider the social climate of the regions.

Their decision to not localize the game makes sense.  They'd likely lose money and have to deal with the negative press.  All that was pretty obvious.

But given the sales of the series, apparently most people agree with my assertion that free Google is better than $60 volley ball booby physics.

The game is already releasing in English so what localisation? And digital release won't cost them a thing so the only money they're losing here is from sales.

Am I to assume you believe that loalization only involves language translation?

Localisation doesn't only require English language translation. You wanna officially release in Europe? You need to translate at least into German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch in addition to English. You wanna release in the Americas, you need to add Portuguese, as Brazil is the largest South American gaming market. It's pretty ignorant for someone to think that for official western release just translate into English and job done. But perhaps USA=the world to some people, so to them English is all that's needed.

In some ways I think DOA is fortunate to have a ready made excuse other than, we can't be arsed putting in the effort to service a market that is too small to make a profit from if we do all the work that is necessary to localise the game for western release. 

I wouldn't be surprised of more Japanese games go this route. Just do English translation, release in the Asian markets and let the gamers import if they want. I wouldn't be surprised to see Asian based online retailers staritng to offer much cheaper shipping rates to western markets. I already buy games cheaper online from a UK based online retailer, with free shipping to New Zealand, than I can buy at retail here in New Zealand. Profitability with a small but enthusiastic western fanbase is probably much better by not officially releasing a game in the west. That's the beauty of not having a region locked console.

If you want games to be officially released in the west then start demanding a return to region-locked consoles.