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Valkyria Chronicles is my number one rpg right now on ps3 and it got almost everywhere from reviews to magazines a rate of 8+ but it still has only made 33000 copies in North America for November 2008 .

JRPG can do better

As a big fan of JRPG whenever I read about bad sales when they hit US or Europe I always wonder.
People love jrpg in our side of the continent but still don’t buy it much, why is that?

- I think the answer lie in the delay between Asia releases and translated version releases for outside Asia.

We love the game but don’t want to wait 3, 6 month or even a year for a game we love to be translated while I already even see all the spoilers videos online even the ending videos some dude post on YouTube.

Now how can it be improved?

I think right now the simple solution is worldwide releases or at least a very short delay between Japan and outside Japan releases.

Some might argue but will you buy a game twice? Maybe yes if you are really a pro or fans but the simple truth is most gamers are just casual players, so it will take lot of passion to own an import and still want to buy the translated version.

Companies should start adding at least foreign subtitles to their games, people who import games don’t really need the audio to be translated , they only care about subs as most people really preferred the original audio since the beauty of it sometimes is the accent.

Final Fantasy Dissidia for PSP out in Japan and sold about 350000+ copies in first week and imagine just adding an English subtitles to it how sales flood the demand will be, but now people who import it have to rely on internet for translation and maybe even a patch which greatly refrained them to buy the game again even if its translated version been released.

Another issue is the universal playback where you don’t even need to hack your consoles anymore, wherever you buy a game it will work on your console like the PS3(x360 and Wii still have regional lock though).

My New Year message to the gaming world is : “please JRPG developers, start adding foreign subtitles to your games and you can minimize the cost (audios translation) and maximize your sales, or less the gaps between .jp and .us, .eu releases dates.”

If internet was not around companies can still get away with this long gaps but with internet, game videos sites, YouTube you can’t afford to let customers watch every videos in the game online or even the ending online before decide to buy it as the suspense and surprises which push you to the end of a game already extinguish.

If you can do it worldwide or even add subs,  do it,  don’t let people see every hidden videos in the game online before make up their mind and doing so can reduce greatly piracy as well , killing two birds with one stone.

“The winter vomiting bug could spread rapidly across England unless people are sensible and stay at home when they have the virus, a leading GP warns. ”

Last week my younger boy in the night started vomiting and then followed by the younger brother, then like hour later the 8 month old baby followed and i have to say it was scarring.

Have to change the bed sheet in the night only like 4 times and about 4-5 am called NHS , where i was told maybe is the winter bug , so we must just watch the kids till the morning and check with the GP.The GP prescribe some tablet which give the kids some fluids since they couldn’t keep anything down.

All in all , it took like 4 days of fear but then its gone.

Watch out for this bug as is very scaring if you never heard about it.

Just my two cent to let you know its very real

Go see your GP if you feel is too much .

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