D: Completely off-topic but Rol you changed your whole theme, I almost didn't recognize you!

Even with a bigger install base tales games won't doing much more and tales games won't boost usa psvita sale

As I said earlier, this is bullshit. The DS couldn't get either of its 3 Tales games localized and it had a giant fanbase. Namco just wants a scapegoat.

Maybe they're afraid because nintendo DS is  a very hacked console .

Well, we know that isn't the real reason considering the inconsistencies with what Namco did and the realities of other consoles and handhelds.

Considering there are companies that operate solely to localise and distribute niche Japanese games in the West (XSEED) it has to be a profitable business. You give the example of Nintendo - do you remember Operation Rainfall? Why didn't Nintendo bring these games to NA even though they've already localised and released them in Europe? The Wii sales were too low in NA? Do you really think the possibility of profiting was that low not to take that risk? I think the Japanese companies just don't care, cause even though it's sure money, it's not huge money. But at the same time they are hurting the jRPG market in the West and making it impossible for more gamers to get into these games. It's just a bad business model.

Remember that we don't have to buy as many games as the Japanese! If Namco thinks it's ok to develop the game for the Japanese market alone, it means they get profit from that market alone, hence the development costs are already covered. The money earned in the West just has to cover the costs of localisation to be pure additional profit and I will not believe that a game with such a brand like "Tales of" won't sell good enough to cover that. But I guess we're gonna see when "Ys" gets released.

Do you really believe that a price cut in the West will change anything in the minds of the Japanese? Like others have said, they have a very bad track record in this matter and are pretty stubborn. Thank god for XSEED!

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The problem is  that Japanese publishers don't make SURVEY . So they can't predict how many customers would like to buy their games :( .

There are not enough advertise and the official games site don't talk enough about J-RPG. It is SAD .

Few months ago ,I just discovered the games made by NIHON FALCOM  ( Ys  and Legend of Heroes) .  You can see the 2 images below my comments.

Yeah  XSEED is our savior !!  The BIG publishers want to sell a LOOOT of copy . If they there aren't enough sold copy  => STOP . It is really sad.

Take a look at this interview : 

http://operationrainfall.com/interview-xseed-games/

It talks about all steps for localizing a game . Sadly there are not numbers but approximation .  Enjoy !!

There are no shipping costs if they just put it on PSN.

So did I :) Just recently bought the Persona 2 Innocent Sin + Trails in the Sky pack due to the nice price cut :) The problem we get with most games that do get released is that we don't get all parts af a Saga and miss out on huge chunks of the story just like with Trails. Hopefully we'll get the second and third part, especially if more people buy the first part now when it's actually affordable. On the other hand sometimes we get something like Persona 2. Innocent Sin (part one) is a PSP remake, while Eternal Punishment (part two) is PSX original, only available in NA :( Still, this is better than nothing. Well, would be if Eternal Punishment PSX was available in Europe :P

Sucks, but it's true. I don't think that's the whole truth though. Let's see what excuse they come up with when sales do pick up, there's nothing stopping them from localising many other Tales games on platforms with large install bases.