Exblackman said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Exblackman said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
First off nearly any game can release in all regions simotaniously now adays. The only reason they don't is if they are unsure of if they want to. Muramasa and Little King's Story however were already being planned for international release before their main Japanese release. Heck, Little King's Story released in Europe before Japan. But then America and Japan had to wait 4 months for the game. Why? This is another reason why Japanese developers could speed up the process and have their games come out faster in other regions, because many times they already are planning to do it, yet it still takes 6-12 months for it to finally get to us. And that leads to a loss of interest from the consumer, who will forget about that game and spend the money they were going to use on that game on something else over that 6-12 month period.
How many times have you heard of someone waiting for a perticular game to come out, only to buy something else instead because they're tired of waiting? I don't know about you, but I heard about it all the time. That happens more often to Japanese games because they have the long localization process to go through and Americans have the attention span of about 1-2 weeks.
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Now they can't because different companies translate those small games in europe and USA ? Why would two completely who probably in opposition each other sync up to release the same game at the same time? Also no commercials for either games mean it was all internet hype and we all know that internet hype those not equal sales.
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Uh...what?
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This quite simple Little King's Story is translated by two different companies when brought to the west Risng Star Games in Europe and X seed in North America They are no way associated with each other so, why would do a simulataneous release if they have different agendas, business practices and so on.... By the way the reason Little King Story's was decided to be release Europe before anywhere is because the translating company Rising Star games is owned By Marvelous(the makers of Little King story) that is why Europe is gauaranteed all Marvelous games why America has to hope some one picks it up....
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Actually I said what because I couldn’t understand your previous post. But now I get what you mean. And that's a VERY situational thing. And even then, then Japanese company could have asked them (or told them) to launch the games simultaneously. But in nearly all other cases, they could launch the games much closer together. And its usually the Japanese game that launches first, with the American game coming second. And that American game has to wait many months or even a year or more to be translated and then shipped. Even if its only for big name titles like Square Enix (FF/DQ/KH) or Nintendo or etc titles, they should focus more on simultaneous or closer releases. As we've seen in the past with many games from Disgaea to Persona to Professor Layton, the 'hype' train can help sell a game very well. But you have to catch it. If a game comes out 9 months after its Japanese counterpart, its pointless.