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Gaffer plee: spam Konami mailboxes.

Beacuse they are following Namco's lead and doing a compilation I&II for the DS to release here.
 
SCEA doesn't seem to have any problem with Popolo Crois... but then maybe that game got a pass since SCEI made it.
 
dark10x said:
Most of the localization work is already done!
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It's probably the same excuse Nintendo used for not doing Mother 1+2 GBA... they'd feel the need to relocalize it and bring things up to today's standard.
 
DarienA said:
You're reaching now...
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I'm really not knowledgeable enough to know how much things like production, shipping, and advertisment cost, so you could be right, but I'm sure they're taken into account when a company makes the decision of whether to bring a game to a new region or not, especially when the system is not region-free.
 
They seriously need to release it over here. Do they not see that Suikoden 2 is going for $100+ these days. I'm sure it will sell enough to make up for the localization cost and, at the very least, help generate hype for Suikoden 5.

Don't be fucktards Konami.
 
CO_Andy said:
While we're at it, we should petition for Snatcher PSOne.
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Let's petition for things that might actually have a chance of happening.
 
Whoa whoa whoa...calm down there. First of all, it's the PS2 that SCEA doesn't like 2D games on. I imagine for the PSP, right now, SCEA would like as many games as possible coming out, 2D or 3D. This is probably a Konami decision based off of sales for the previous Suikoden game here in the states. The best course of action, if you really want this game, is to take some pictures of the boxes and prices of the original Suikoden I and II at your local EB's or whatever, and send these pics to both Konami of Japan and Konami America. Hell throw in some links to ebay auctions for these games as well, as these are going for a high price. Seeing that there are people making hundred of dollars off of these old PS1 Suikoden's might get Konami to release the PSP port here, at the very least online purchase only. You never know what might happen when a company sees people making good money selling their products second hand...
 
King This is probably a Konami decision based off of sales for the previous Suikoden game here in the states. [/QUOTE said:
This doesn't make sense because I believe V and the Tactics style offshoot are already confirmed for PS2 release in the US.

Himuro said:
psp as well if I recall.
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<cough> Street Fighter Alpha Double Upper is coming and Darkstalkers is already here.
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Himuro said:
So why is this not coming out to North America? I bet you it's scea and that faggot Ken Kutaragi
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Classy.
SCEA refuses to have 2d games on it's systems these days.
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Yeah this explains why the retro compilations and other Capcom and/or SNK rehashes actually make it through (SFAC, Metal Slugs and KOFs).

Normally I'd say emailing Konami would be completely fruitless, but I guess enough people bugged them to get GFDM-V to finally get a PS2 version announced, so nothing's certain. Maybe something could change if you had enough ranks in your militia.
 
Just use their website to send them a polite email, something along the lines of what I did:

I've heard that Konami of Japan recently announced Suikoden 1/2 for PSP for release in Japan. I've also heard that said release is currently ONLY for Japan. Can you confirm this? If that is the case I would just like to say that as a long time supporter of various Konami products I for one would love to see this combo released on the PSP in the US.

Thank you for your time.

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DarienA said:
Just use their website to send them a polite email, something along the lines of what I did:

I've heard that Konami of Japan recently announced Suikoden 1/2 for PSP for release in Japan. I've also heard that said release is currently ONLY for Japan. Can you confirm this? If that is the case I would just like to say that as a long time supporter of various Konami products I for one would love to see this combo released on the PSP in the US.

Thank you for your time.
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Agreed. Being a dick in an email will get you nowhere for sure.
 
If you can, try and write a handwritten letter (being polite, obviously) to Konami of America... it's probably so rare in this day and age that companies receive them so they will probably pay more attention to it. I've done this before to Squaresoft back in the day to try and petition for FF5 and SD3 (worked pretty bad though sadly)...
 
The US PSP market is starving for RPG's. They need a killer app to get the thing moving again. This may or may not be the killer app but it is at least very good filler.
 
Dr. Kitty Muffins said:
The US PSP market is starving for RPG's. They need a killer app to get the thing moving again. This may or may not be the killer app but it is at least very good filler.
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The US market isn't showing a slowdown.. it's the Japanese market that's on life support... The US market has a strong lineup going in to the fall/winter of this year.
 
I'd buy a PSP for this game if it was coming out here. However it looks dated by today's standards for most people. Also, they go for a lot on ebay, but that's because there's not a whole lot of them. If this got released here, I don't see it doing big numbers unless they got it out soon, maybe before the end of the year, while there's still a lack of RPGs in the US.

Suikoden 2 is my favorite game of all time, but calm the hell down dude. These are business companies, we can't expect them to please us at a loss to themselves. Also, since when do emails work? I remember the guy who organized something like 2500 emails to get them to release Tales of Destiny 2 and Namco x Capcom, see how well those worked.
 
SailorDaravon said:
I'd buy a PSP for this game if it was coming out here. However it looks dated by today's standards for most people. Also, they go for a lot on ebay, but that's because there's not a whole lot of them. If this got released here, I don't see it doing big numbers unless they got it out soon, maybe before the end of the year, while there's still a lack of RPGs in the US.

Suikoden 2 is my favorite game of all time, but calm the hell down dude. These are business companies, we can't expect them to please us at a loss to themselves. Also, since when do emails work? I remember the guy who organized something like 2500 emails to get them to release Tales of Destiny 2 and Namco x Capcom, see how well those worked.
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You know people keep saying that if it got release here it wouldn't do big numbers.. hello? None of the Suikoden's do big numbers here and IV certainly didn't set the world on fire, and that hasn't stopped them from announcing V for US release.

Secondly email campaigns do NOT always work if there are other circumstances, however sometimes they DO get the attention of the company in question and it's better to do something than to sit back and say.. nope.. that won't work and not do a damn thing.
 
I thought this was totally going to be about the MGS4 trailer. It should be, anyways. :P Most of the people asking for the PSP ports already played the games on PS1 I bet...so why make such a big deal about it?
 
jett said:
I thought this was totally going to be about the MGS4 trailer. It should be, anyways. :P Most of the people asking for the PSP ports already played the games on PS1 I bet...so why make such a big deal about it?
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You people are retarded. Why come in to a thread that you basically have no interest in and then poo poo the people that do have interest in it?
 
DarienA said:
You know people keep saying that if it got release here it wouldn't do big numbers.. hello? None of the Suikoden's do big numbers here and IV certainly didn't set the world on fire.
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Exactly and as I said before it would be good for them to generate a bit of hype for Suikoden 5 by releasing these here especially since S5 is supposed to be around the same time period as 2.
 
jett said:
I thought this was totally going to be about the MGS4 trailer. It should be, anyways. :P Most of the people asking for the PSP ports already played the games on PS1 I bet...so why make such a big deal about it?
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I really wanted to play them. I'll admit that I have a copy of both Suikoden I and II...Not because I refused to buy them...but because it's friggin impossible to FIND THEM. They are pretty good games that have a huge value in the 2nd hand market.
 
DarienA said:
You people are retarded. Why come in to a thread that you basically have no interest in and then poo poo the people that do have interest in it?
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I'm just asking why make such a big deal about it, specially Himuro who went fucking nuts. :P

P.S. When I clicked on the thread I had no idea it was about Suikoden.
 
jarrod said:
Snatcher & Policenauts would make fantastic PSP releases... if Kojima allowed it.
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Dunno why he hates them...He might say whatever he wants about the gameplay being no longer adequate for the current times and all the crap he wants... He has SOMETHING personal against those games. Perhaps his woman left him for on of the programmers...I really don't know. But after so many petitions and popular pressure...seeing no kind of reaction is weird.
 
He might change on Snatcher/Policenauts. He originally said he didn't want MG or MG2 released again because they're so old (during TGS he still admitted he's kind of embarrasSed to show them). But no they're releasing both of those again on the PS2.
 
SolidSnakex said:
He might change on Snatcher/Policenauts. He originally said he didn't want MG or MG2 released again because they're so old (during TGS he still admitted he's kind of embarrasSed to show them). But no they're releasing both of those again on the PS2.
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Kojima should be only embarassed of one thing. And that's Raiden :) I beat Snatcher CD (on the Mega CD) in the year 2001-2002 and even though the game had its years and the simple ask and progress mechanics were kinda stupid I enjoyed it A LOT. It's the story what makes them great :)
Never touched Policenauts because I wouldn't understand anything :(

Just grab the SS release and port it to PSP :)
 
ourumov said:
Kojima should be only embarassed of one thing. And that's Raiden :) I beat Snatcher CD (on the Mega CD) in the year 2001-2002 and even though the game had its years and the simple ask and progress mechanics were kinda stupid I enjoyed it A LOT. It's the story what makes them great :)
Never touched Policenauts because I wouldn't understand anything :(

Just grab the SS release and port it to PSP :)
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Nope, Raiden is a favorite character of his and still likes to take pot shots at him.
 
Yeah, this really wasn't good news. :( I was going to get a PSP just to play these games. Now it might not even be worth it though. As for me, I never got the chance to /beat/ Suikoden II. So it's not a good feeling to never have beaten a really good game, and only getting halfway through. Leaves you really empty inside, you know? I /really/ hope they change their mind. If done right, I believe it could have a very good release over here. As long as they advertise right and everything. :/
 
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