Comments on: News: Sakura Wars 5 English Screenshots Released http://www.mechadamashii.com/news/news-sakura-wars-5-english-screenshots-released/ New Spirit of Hot Robot Burning Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tollmaster http://www.mechadamashii.com/news/news-sakura-wars-5-english-screenshots-released/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Tollmaster Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:57:59 +0000 http://www.mechadamashii.com/?p=1325#comment-358 I'm a bit of a Nippon Ichi fanboy myself, so by my nature I like to defend them whenever I can, so you should know that up front. Still, I don't think Nippon Ichi America chose Sakura Taisen V over any of the others on purpose--either it was a financial decision or a rights decision. I'd imagine Sega is either a bit more careful about the rights to the primary games in the series or the more recent installment was easier to hand off for localization--maybe in the latter case the team and source code were still together and fresh for adapting the localization (it's always sounded like Nippon Ichi America sends off their translations to an outside agency in interviews, rather than touching any code themselves). Or maybe Sega just didn't want to hand off a potentially rich franchise to a small company, and wanted instead to let them test the waters with a more recent, but less important, installment. Or they didn't trust them with something potentially important. Nippon Ichi America seems to be the "low risk, low return" of localization companies, and Sega might have wanted too much money for something that COULD make money, but was also a somewhat risky endeavor from NISA's perspective. Or maybe the original Sakura Taisen rights are tied up because of the anime releases, in a fashion similar to how the various rights holders to anime in America prevent Super Robot Wars games from making it to America. I’m a bit of a Nippon Ichi fanboy myself, so by my nature I like to defend them whenever I can, so you should know that up front. Still, I don’t think Nippon Ichi America chose Sakura Taisen V over any of the others on purpose–either it was a financial decision or a rights decision. I’d imagine Sega is either a bit more careful about the rights to the primary games in the series or the more recent installment was easier to hand off for localization–maybe in the latter case the team and source code were still together and fresh for adapting the localization (it’s always sounded like Nippon Ichi America sends off their translations to an outside agency in interviews, rather than touching any code themselves).

Or maybe Sega just didn’t want to hand off a potentially rich franchise to a small company, and wanted instead to let them test the waters with a more recent, but less important, installment. Or they didn’t trust them with something potentially important. Nippon Ichi America seems to be the “low risk, low return” of localization companies, and Sega might have wanted too much money for something that COULD make money, but was also a somewhat risky endeavor from NISA’s perspective.

Or maybe the original Sakura Taisen rights are tied up because of the anime releases, in a fashion similar to how the various rights holders to anime in America prevent Super Robot Wars games from making it to America.

]]> By: Ikki http://www.mechadamashii.com/news/news-sakura-wars-5-english-screenshots-released/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Ikki Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:14:05 +0000 http://www.mechadamashii.com/?p=1325#comment-355 I'm still mad they didn't choose the PS2 remake of the first one. It would have tied in perfectly with the already available English versions of the TV series, the three OVA series, the theatrical feature, and the manga series. I blame the marketing scum. Ignoring the already established core fanbase and trying to sell their game to people who aren't interested in it in more than a passing kind of way seems to be their trademark move these days. Oh well, I guess I'll have to continue listening to Sakura Taisen OVA watchers who lament that the plot seems to require background knowledge from the never translated videogame of the same name. I’m still mad they didn’t choose the PS2 remake of the first one. It would have tied in perfectly with the already available English versions of the TV series, the three OVA series, the theatrical feature, and the manga series. I blame the marketing scum. Ignoring the already established core fanbase and trying to sell their game to people who aren’t interested in it in more than a passing kind of way seems to be their trademark move these days.

Oh well, I guess I’ll have to continue listening to Sakura Taisen OVA watchers who lament that the plot seems to require background knowledge from the never translated videogame of the same name.

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