I used to work on LT for SCEE and I guarantee that 99% of the explanation behind the product delay is related to the cultural differences (language, censorship). The rest is mainly speculative bullshit.

For Dualshock..well..unless they come with two inch thick manuals, I don't see any reasonable explanation a part from Sony strategy to release in europe last.

mcdoomer2 said: I used to work on LT for SCEE and I guarantee that 99% of the explanation behind the product delay is related to the cultural differences (language, censorship). The rest is mainly speculative bullshit. For Dualshock..well..unless they come with two inch thick manuals, I don't see any reasonable explanation a part from Sony strategy to release in europe last.

 

To clear stock of Sixaxis controllers?

A worldwide release "English only" with additional languages as downloads could be a solution. It won't solve everything though.

mcdoomer2 said: I used to work on LT for SCEE and I guarantee that 99% of the explanation behind the product delay is related to the cultural differences (language, censorship). The rest is mainly speculative bullshit. For Dualshock..well..unless they come with two inch thick manuals, I don't see any reasonable explanation a part from Sony strategy to release in europe last.

QFT

@woopah: What EU laws cause delays?

@Samuel: You got the homogenous right. It's about the country having one language, one set of laws and one culture. For example Canada is culturally closer to US, than countries from (geographically) different sides in EU.
Basically you example about different sided traffic described the "problem" pretty well.

bdbdbd said: @woopah: What EU laws cause delays? @Samuel: You got the homogenous right. It's about the country having one language, one set of laws and one culture. For example Canada is culturally closer to US, than countries from (geographically) different sides in EU. Basically you example about different sided traffic described the "problem" pretty well.

 

 I wouldn't call that a problem, just how it should be.

@Doctor85: It wouldn't practically solve anything, since:
1. Language packs would need to be ready when the game launches anyway.
2. In order to beat the "language barrier", the game would need to start at the local language.

Besides, wouldn't it be even better solution to launch (japanese) games in japanese and put other languages downloadable?

@Samuel: Well yes it should be. And that's the difference between US and EU. US is one country and EU is a (trade) union of number of countries.

Why should we care? The reality on the ground is that everyone in Europe speaks English. At least in all scandinavian countries, all German speaking countries and even France. It has become a lingua franca which works pretty well. I think our heterogeneous language environment is no problem for business.




LOL the Euro is doing pretty well compared to the dollar recently. And I do not want to say anything bad about our English friends but they are only a small part of Europe.

bdbdbd said: @Samuel: Well yes it should be. And that's the difference between US and EU. US is one country and EU is a (trade) union of number of countries.

 

 I was referring to crumas's point of "people complaining about the US being homogenous".

This "homogenous" word has just sparked a load of new thoughts into my mind. Mainly: how long will it be before the world is much more unified. I mean, with globalisation, jet-aircraft, the internet, and countries forming unions left, right and bleetin' centre. How long is it before the different cultures and languages become so intertwined that, really, it's just one.

It's already started happening, I mean, you can go to any McDonald's in the world, and order the same meal (with some exceptions). And "HDTV" means that the world will finally have a unified television resolution. ;)