Would you believe me if I told you that I'm considering importing a PAL 3DS for the normally Multi-5 releases?
I want a few friends of mine to try Fire Emblem and SMTIV, but they don't know a lick of English. FE came out in Spanish over ther and SMT most likely will too.
Either that or convince my sister of buying one for herself, since she will be traveling to Europe this year. She normally doesn't play video games, but she likes Fire Emblem e.e
Anyway, new info. TUESDAY CAN NOT COME SOON ENOUGH. RIGHT, GUYS?
I can sympathise with wanting a game in your own language, and I totally think anyone should be prepared to wait if they want to play a properly localised game. However, being from the UK, it's incredibly frustrating to have to wait for games to be localised into four languages I don't give a shit about, when the one I want to play it in is ready to roll.
How much of a presence does Sega have in Europe? I thought one of the benefits of the acquisition would be that Atlus would finally have a presence or there.
They used to have a big presence, but now they are a digital only publisher in Europe. If they want to release physical product over here they need to partner up with someone to do it.
I'm generally ambivalent to digital/physical with most games, but when it comes to stuff I love the most I'd much prefer a physical edition so that it's not lost at some point in the future. On the most part, if Sega screw us on a physical release it's not such a big deal since I can import, but on 3DS that's just not possible.
Plus I think in the short term, at least, Atlus USA will be handling distribution, meaning they need to partner up with someone to release the game in Europe. Unless, of course, they release the game digital only as they did with Rock of Ages and Persona 1 on PSP.