Before I start, I wanted to thank you guys for sharing your thoughts in such a courteous, mature way. That's the kind of thing that makes our day!

Okay, so I believe the original question was "Why didn't Capcom ask fans before releasing Dual Destinies digitally?" I certainly hope you didn't feel mislead in any way by filling out that survey. As surveys are, they’re a means to get opinions for various possible situations and temperature check on how people are feeling about a specific topic.

The purpose of the survey in regards to Dual Destinies specifically was to see if fans would consider purchasing digitally as a possible option. An option that would eventually mean that Capcom would be able to expedite a Western release as soon as possible. As Sven also related in the past, we desperately wanted to avoid another situation of fans waiting an eternity for a US/EU release, or worse, not getting a game at all.

Your thoughts and feedback are crucial to what we do here and held at a super high priority, but as you can see by the folks who chimed in within this very thread, there are still many additional (usually the unglamorous and “businessy”) layers to consider when releasing a game.

To put it another way, the voices of Capcom fans, here on Unity or elsewhere, are INCREDIBLY important. We most certainly do take deep consideration of what we hear from fans. Your feedback is what often helps us determine what we look into. We also ask you to understand that there are a ton of factors we consider, we do take your feedback very seriously, and do our best to combine all of these factors into the decisions we ultimately make.

While we can understand some of you may have reservations about a digital version, again we can’t reiterate enough how hard we are working hard to bring this title to the west as soon as possible. And personal platform preferences aside, digital is a really good place for Phoenix to be and we hope to be able to prove that to you with some good news very soon.

And personal platform preferences aside, digital is a really good place for Phoenix to be and we hope to be able to prove that to you with some good news very soon.

I love it when companies acknowledge the fans. Dunno why, it's a nice personal touch. I would hope that it's regarding the release date. Like i've said before, Eshiro told us that the English localisation was being developed alongside the Japanese version, so i will expect the release date to be... August 29th or September 5th! BA BAM~

One can dream, fellow enthusiasts.

August 29th or September 5th! BA BAM~

Fall starts Sept. 22nd, but at least where I live when September starts Falls starts. So August 29th is early... but you're right, we might as well dream about it.

The game is at most going to be $35. The very most.

....Oh gosh, VERY good news? I am really excited now.

It's also great to see someone from Capcom respond! Maybe Chris will replace Sven!

They've even got the localization team credited in the credits of the Japanese version

I think August and maybe even September is a bit optimistic, but it's true the game was developed and translated simultaneously for a change. They've even got the localization team credited in the credits of the Japanese version (but before anyone asks, no, they don't credit the English voice cast.)

Do know for a fact that the cutscenes will get dubbed? I may be paranoid, but you'd think we'll get to see something by now.. Plus the demo version cut it out. Though they hired Sam Riegel, who's done more then a simple "Objection" for umvc3.

I think it would be weird seeing the characters speak in English but suddenly speak Japanese in the anime cutscenes. So I'm very sure the anime cutscenes are dubbed.

To be fair, English dubs in video games are often uncredited. This happened in VLR, for example.

Bolt, don't crush my dreams!



The demo version cut it out because that is how all of Japanese public appearance demos were, they never had the cut scene at the beginning, only the eShop demo did. So i am pretty sure they will dub the anime scenes.

Holy Snackoo, are you serious!?

I hope very soon means in the next couple of days, and not the next couple of weeks!

I thought Sven was laid off. Turns out he's just not Senior Vice President anymore. OH GOD I AM JUMPING UP AN DOWN. I WILL BUY ALL THE ACE ATTORNEY GAMES NO MATTER WHAT.

Or will they just announce it on their own?

Godot: I like my coffee the way I like my 3DS handhelds and women. Black.

No, he fully resigned from Capcom as a whole, I believe.

Then how does he still no inside info etc.?

I'm guessing that it'll cost around $20. I think that would be a good price, but that's just my opinion.

Yeah though it's been said Capcom hired professional voice actors?

Interesting. So DD really is the first AA game to have an actual budget.

Visual novels don't need large budgets. It's pretty clear though that DD has a larger one because of the anime cutscenes and higher quality sounding music.

Then how does he still no inside info etc.?

Who knows, maybe we might hear some more localized names.

Who knows, maybe we might hear some more localized names.

I'm thinking (hoping...) it's news about AAI2 coming digitally. xP

I'd think it's more related to AA:DD to be honest