SpokenTruth said:
Lawlight said:
SpokenTruth said:
Am I to assume you believe that localization only involves language translation?
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Yes, what else is there to localisation?
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Copy and paste from another post a few minutes ago.
SpokenTruth said:
It goes even further than that too. Because you need to pass lot checks for each major region (which can be expensive and time consuming) and pay/pass any required ratings boards.
Any marketing and promotional activity is also going to be costly and needs time to prepare if it wasn't planned from the beginning.
A digital release also requires them to work with Sony on getting it on the western PSN stores. People don't realize that takes mroe than just the flick of a switch.
And of course this says nothing of a retail version.
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You don't have to spend a dime on marketing and promotional activity. There was never going to be any ads for this game. That's not part of localisation but part of marketing, which is optional for digital releases.
Certifications for PSN might be time consuming but certainly not expensive.
The majority of the expenses come from the translation and programming and some from QA, all of which have been done.
With an English version, you could release it in the US, AU, UK, IE.
