MC1980 said:
WinterWyvern said:
Rest assured it's certainly not fear of hostile press responses.
Japan makes Japanese videogames for Japan only.
Case in point: the Yakuza series, which A LOT OF FANS want in the West, but they don't care anymore.
Even Yakuza fans know that there's only like 5 of them grand total. Those few are just really vocal out of desperation, since they missed like 4 games by now and 6 and the remake of the first game is on the way. It's sad, but those games and the series in general is DOA (dead on arrival, kinda forgot this is a topic about Dead or Alive, pardon for any confusion) in our part of the world.
China seems to like it though. With a little luck they might translate it in english for them and we can import.
Yeah, the point I was making is that even tough fans kept asking for Yakuza games to come to the West, Sega said "lolnope".
Japanese, I repeat, seem to have a mentality in which sometimes they make games for their country alone, and when they perceive a game is "too Japanese", they don't want to bring it outside their country.
I think this is the same case with DOAX3. But really, I doubt it's a game with much dialogue anyway, so I don't see the problem.... those who really want it can simply import it.