Know a game or company that just won't come out to the western market for some reason or another? Maybe you know why the game won't be released, if so, tell us so we can see if it's justified or just plain silly and laughable. Or you can simply guess why a game won't be brought out.

None of the Key Visual Art's will make it to the western market. Simple reason being that the publisher is not interested in the western market. It was said, though, that they would think about releasing to the west, if there was enough interest.
The paradox comes from the fact that their homepage is blocked to any foreigners.
And apparently Baba Takahiro is not amused with people legally importing their games.
"Go fuck yourself and play your own games", indeed.

As much as it saddens me, I doubt that any The Idolm@ster games will come to the western market. There is probably not enough interest in a Rhythm Game + Raising Sim to justify making it, causing a lot of money. Not to mention the fact that the game is fully voice acted and has a good twenty-odd songs, which would have to be well translated and well sung... which will not just cost a ton, but most likely backfire.
In Japan, it's quite normal and almost expected for a voice actor to be able to sing, a lot of them even have character songs for the various roles they play. But in the western market, it's more likely that they simply voice someone and leave it at that.
Personally I see no reason why they can't just translate the game and translate the subtitles during the songs, but leave the audio in Japanese. Costs less and wouldn't "ruin" the songs.

For the same voice-acting/money reason, it's doubtful that many voice acted Dating Sims will make it to the western market... worst of all, TokiMemo games. None of them ever got to released outside of Japan or China once or twice, which is terrible cause those games are great.
But Konami feels/fears that the games are "too Japanese" for western players and are a niche of the market. I have to say this is pretty silly, as there are a lot of western TokiMemo fans who have imported and played the games and enjoyed them.
Heck, do what the fans did and simply translate the games! That'll bring them over.

And since I've been playing them recently... the Romancing Saga games by Squaresoft. These days, I guess they would not be released due to being "too old" although I think they could get some money out of it by having them be downloadable from the Wii/3DS shop, if they want to stick to having them appear on Nintendo consoles.
But I have no idea why they did not release them back in the Nineties. Looking at the games, the graphics were rather decent, the story is interesting and the controls were well managed. Romancing Saga 3 is the most well-known and insanely popular, there is an English translation done by ManaSword - which has its grammatical mistakes, but that is natural when a Chinese man translates from Japanese to English with neither of those languages being his very best, but it's overall a very good translation.

And if the western market would think some of the monsters looked too naked to them, well they could always draw bikinis or something. As I mentioned, I just recently noticed - after 10 years of playing that game - that the snake-women monsters have nipples hinted on their bodies.

C-A

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This being an Ace Attorney forum, I'll get the obvious one out of the way first: Gyakuten Kenji 2.

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Of course. But then, what the reasons are could be a mystery or other reasons. I dunno, is it possible to bring out a DS game, but make it compatible to play on the 3DS? Not knowing how to do that, I would expect that to be "easy enough".

And since there is rumor, or statement, that the translation and all is actually done, the only thing not happening being the actual localization itself, they could bring it out on the e-Shop or so. Problem solved.

C-A

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Capcom's experiment concerning DD being a hit on the eShop worked, seeing as how it's one first place of the eShop's Best Seller category.

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I have no idea what you're talking about


The problem is that there's a difference between releasing a 3DS game and a DS game. People might be turned off from the fact that it's expensive (presumably), but old, with not-as-good graphics, and no 3D.

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People are overrating 3D and HD, anyway.

C-A

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Well, people still buy indie games that have no 3D effect and Nintendo classics that range from their NES age and Gameboy Color era.

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Eh. 3D is quite silly, but HD is sometimes nice.

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Yes, but GK2 is neither indie nor from the retro era. GK2 is a full-fledged modern professional game... without any of the bells and whistles of all the other full-fledged modern professional games in the market atm.

I agree that the 3D and slightly-improved graphics are silly (especially in a stylized sprite-based game), but you still gotta think of this from Nintendo/Capcom's POV, and take into account that most consumers aren't like us, and would be GK2 just because it's Ace Attorney. (Remember: People are idiots! ;D)

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