Summer Lesson won't be released except Japan
Siliconera caught up with Katsuhiro Harada at E3 2016, and we asked him if there are any plans to release Summer Lesson outside of Japan now they have its release date set alongside the PlayStation VR.
When asked about the chances of getting a localization of the upcoming interactive PlayStation VR title, Summer Lesson, Harada made two points—the first was about the difficulty of bringing it over, and the second is that it originally wasn’t going to be sold as a product but the game happened after getting request from fans.
“It’s difficult because lip syncing to do this properly for each language would be a lot of work. You really need this to be perfect to have immersion in gameplay,” Harada told Siliconera. “To do that for all of the languages would be quite intense with the scenarios themselves because the length would change with each language. That makes it quite difficult to localize.
He continued, “Also when you think about the current game situation and the climate in different countries where you have to have characters from every different race or nationality, someone else would say ‘mine is not included,’ which is the climate we currently see with games. Since there are people who can’t set aside the game and the actual problems in society, I don’t want open that can of worms.”
However, Harada added, “But, if there is a particular region with enthusiastic fans who say we ‘want Summer Lesson’ that does make it more possible. That was the case in Japan. It wasn’t scheduled to be an actual product, but there are so many fans who asked for it to be released as a game, and it actually happened.”
Summer Lesson will release in Japan on October 13, 2016. We’ll have more from Harada-san in our Tekken 7 interview from E3 2016.
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/06/15/summer-lesson-producer-chances-localizing-psvr-title-outside-japan/
I'll be buying the Asian English release
Bandai won't let me down
What is the point to living anymore
>>341730736
it's namco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIl2-5f8NTo
Good thing that we have all been learning moon in preparation for the VR waifu age, right? None of us are retarded enough to think this type of game would have ever been released in English, right?
learn Japanese
sincerely
>>341730670
>However, Harada added, “But, if there is a particular region with enthusiastic fans who say we ‘want Summer Lesson’ that does make it more possible. That was the case in Japan. It wasn’t scheduled to be an actual product, but there are so many fans who asked for it to be released as a game, and it actually happened.”
Rev up those petitions?
i just hope itll be easy enough to use if you don't speak moon
if it had cute men no one would make such a fuss
>>341730670
Play-Asia pre-order when?
The only thing that can cure the SJW poison is VR women. But no, they've already won. Get mad or get dead.
>>341730898
http://summer-lesson.bn-ent.net/sp/
BN my man
>>341731127
The sad part is this is true. No one complained about the nudity in Kojima's new trailer because it was a guy, but everyone flipped their shit when Quiet was revealed.
Not even fucking Europe?
I'm gonna start believing the saying that real women are dreadfully afraid of VR.
Good. It's just a rosetta stone with a gimmick. It's not even an actual game with actual proper gameplay. Even gone home had more gameplay than this waifu drivel.
>>341731289
The walkind dead faggot isn't gonna stay nude for the entire game though, because he's secretly a half plant hybrid.
>>341731289
Why would anyone complain about a naked man, it's the same as complaining about a naked dog.
Look around. The SJWs won. We were too passive and clumsy.
>>341731554
Who the fuck cares. It's a product we're missing on because of banal bullshit, same with the Dead or Alive thing. It might no be a quality product but as long as there's someone wanting to try it out it should be perfectly fine to release, if you don't like it look away.
Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
>>341731554
>Good
Faggot. If you don't like it don't play it. Self-centered SJW scum.
>>341731773
>there wasn't enough interest
>"muh SJW"
Grow up
>inb4 I'm called a SJW because you retards are too delusional to see that people can fall in the middle and are predictable
>>341731815
You're already dead, this is purgatory
>>341731865
It has nothing to do with sjw, but with the future of the vidya industry. If they force this non-game on the west, you drooling retards would eat that shit right up because you cannot stop obsessing over waifus.
Then everyone else would start making shitty non-vidya because it's that easy to milk the disgusting dumb neckbeards
>>341731934
Didn't the producers say they didn't want to bring it overseas due to fear of social backlash? Or maybe that was the new Berserk game, I can't remember.
>>341731934
>Also when you think about the current game situation and the climate in different countries where you have to have characters from every different race or nationality, someone else would say ‘mine is not included,’ which is the climate we currently see with games. Since there are people who can’t set aside the game and the actual problems in society, I don’t want open that can of worms.
>I don’t want open that can of worms.
If you reads that as
>there wasn't enough interest
then you need medical assistance.
>we are not going to take your games away :^)
>>341731934
If you can't stand people enjoy things you don't enjoy, you need to grow up. Self-centered prick.
>>341732041
>new Berserk game at E3
>not coming west; trailer's all you get
I can see it happening
>>341731991
It's a fucking niche. Let them have their fun.
Just get a PC console babies
What people don't understand is that western gaming journalism has been wholy compromised by SJWs. They've used sly tactics to infiltrate big sites and thus review games with an immense bias. Even mainstream sites like IGN are now running articles on Anita and the evil problematic games.
He's releasing Tekken 7 on PC. That's all I need.
>>341732201
They aren't and they can't.
It's all Harada's decision in the end to not be a pussy.
>>341732475
victim blaming
>>341732475
Why does /v/ always get hit by SJW apologists nowadays. It's become more and more over the past months.
>>341732542
>Harada
>Victim
Let me guess, you get offended for people who don't get offended? Sounds familiar..
Harada should add an ugly dumb negro and a faggot with HIV for western release. That ought to please the American social studies kiddies.
>>341732641
Why did 8ch's gg faggots come back when they stauntly declared they would NEVER EVER come back?
>>341730670
import bait
>>341732658
He is using your own rhetoric against you.
It is clear as day the game is not released because of potential backlash from SJW-aligned media - he literally said that much.
He did choose to be a coward, and he did because of SJWs in press.
>if you ignore them they'll go away
>Ignore them and they will go away
This worked so well...
I hope more japanese devs do this. You westerners fucking deserve this. I know jap and don't give a fuck HAHAHAHAA
>>341730670
So is there a part of the interview where they actually say anything that sounds like being afraid SJW won't like the game for it's waifu nature? All I'm seeing is
>lip sync too hard
>people want waifus of their own race (I guess the line "different countries where you have to have characters from every different race or nationality" could be a diversity thing?)
I'm curious, because so far I've seen nothing that really point to this being the kind of thing people are melting down over.
>>341732658
You are saying Harada is a pussy for not wanting to be called sexist on western social media that might tarnish his reputation. You are literally victim blaming now.
>>341732542
I would agree with you if there were an actual victim, but all SJWs can do is talk shit.
It won't prevent a single person from buying the game. There is nothing stopping Harada from releasing the game.
>People unironically saying victim blaming
The more you dipshits try to distance yourself from sjws, the more like them you become. Holy shit.
>>341732836
>Since there are people who can’t set aside the game and the actual problems in society, I don’t want open that can of worms.
You were so close anon.
>>341732878
What did he mean by this?
>>341732930
Fight fire with fire. Our methods didn't work. SJW methods did. Only prudent thing is to adapt accordingly.
>>341731647
American here. We're behind Europe in that regard. Puritan roots and all that.
>>341732969
He knew that USA was full of thirsty fat weebs who care more about kawaii uguus than gameplay
>>341732990
>>341732938
Again, that's attached to the line about "why is mine not included." At best, it's a reference to diversity, and not the fundamental VR waifu nature of the game people are saying SJW will cause a fuss over.
>>341731639
They were complaining about Quiet long before the game released
>>341732990
Why does she have to give me that look.
>>341732905
Negative attention from media might very well prevent people from buying other Sony games.
>>341732905
The guy is being called sexist on Twitter all the time. It gets to them. Devs aren't robots. Harada has been bitter towards western social media for a year or two now because of this.
>>341733154
And? Do you feel ashamed of your words and deeds now? Of course not, because Kojima's "deep" and "intricate" character plot was fucking retarded.
>>341733074
Diversity is an SJW issue.
>>341730670
Good, game looks pretty gross.
>>341733234
I don't feel ashamed because it's a fucking video game and she isn't real
>>341733250
Yeah, but that's not what people are pointing to here. No one is saying "they won't bring over Summer Lesson because they're afraid people will be angry that it's not diverse enough."
>>341733045
European here, we literally have butt-naked women on billboards in the streets for everyone to see, next to schools and everything.
One of them is right out my front door. It's actually an ad about some online gambling site
Why are American white kids so obsessed with shoving niggers and man-faced women into everything?
>>341733293
If she's not real, why do you refer to it as "her" like it was a real person?
Checkm8 anti-waifufags
>>341733332
People are saying SJWs are the reason this game is not coming to west.
>>341733442
People call their cars "her" and "she" all the time too. Doesn't mean they want to fuck them.
>>341733395
Because the aryan ideal woman has strong defined features. Seen the nazi ideal of scandinavian women? Man jawed ugly dykes.
Blame the white power faggots for ruining any chance at superior sleek and pretty women ideals.
>>341733395
Shit taste
>>341733276
>he's not a depressed and lonely anon that desperately want's a VR girlfriend
Yeah... I didn't want that shit either.
>>341733514
>Doesn't mean they want to fuck them.
You should stay away from /o/ and remain pure and naive.
>>341733395
That's American capitalism for you. Gotta make the product as generic as possible to reach a larger audience.
>>341733489
Again, the point is people are saying "SJW are the reason this is not coming to the west because we know how they'll react to a waifu focused game."
Harada himself does not even mention that issue, instead focusing on language problems with the lip syncing and not having the right race of waifu. Everyone is acting like he's said that he knows waifu simulators will cause a problem with the West, even though he's said nothing like that.
>>341733569
Nazi girls were qt
So what the fuck is this game about anyway?
>>341733819
Go ahead and look at posts in this thread. Literally noone saying that.
>>341730670
It's coming to PC.
>>341733819
>Since there are people who can’t set aside the game and the actual problems in society, I don’t want open that can of worms.
What the fuck do you think this means? It was predictable they would be going after VR. We finally had a way out from this bullshit and they blocked it.
>>341731035
always nod
works 80% of the times
>SJWs so insecure about being fat hambeasts they can't even deal with virtual girlfriends existing
Tragic state of American women. You eat and you whine. Work out more, eat less. Fat fucks.
>>341733947
the feel when no cutie patattoie girlfriend
>>341734014
Holy shit.
>>341734289
I mean what do you do in it?
>>341734014
All hail our savior, Gaben.
Do you love Gaijin-chan enough to drop 899 dollars on VR?
>>341734014
so, he was just artificially generating hype with his earlier statements.
Clever
>>341730736
this
Pls Harada we believe in you
>>341734643
>Brown hair
I'd buy that for a dollar
>>341732641
Because the don't exist and never have. This kind of discussion makes them real though. A fake concept has actually taken form and caused a reaction.
>one or two fringe cases complain about something
> /v/, gg, and the like inflate it to massive proportions
>screen caps are dug up from obscure blogs and twitters with no followers
>it's made to look like there's an army of angry SJWs mad about X game
>people buy into
>articles get written on news sites
>"remember when tumblr got triggered by X game?"
>in reality no one but a handful of people cared
I see this all the time. I frequent Tumblr for art and porn. I always hear on /v/ "remember when tumblr got BTFO by samus's smash alternate costume". Except it's not true. No one gave a shit, anywhere, including tumblr.
And so now people like Harada think there's this "culture of backlash" when there never really was....just the illusion that there was because some obscure fringe nut-jobs and their blogs got screen-caped and touted around to make it look like there was "an outrage"
>>341734246
>implying literally anyone won't think less of you for being so pathetic you have to have a fake gf with no mind.
You are literally the worst kind of degenerate.
>>341734793
Same goes for Anita and the 5 men Burger girl. They would have never reached an audience or had meetings with the UN or been on TV if you faggatrons hadn't given them so much attention.
>>341734643
Brown silver hair is best.
>>341734643
>red head with glasses
What is this game even about anyway?
>>341734643
I don't care about the girl. But i'd love a VR place with beautiful scenery like that to explore.
>>341735361
it's a vr tech demo.
>>341735108
It's about gamer principles you feminist scum. We're not gonna take it lying down any more. Today, we fight back agains true evil!
>>341735441
sauce breh?
>>341735441
Truly we live in the golden waifu age
>>341731382
no but they are terrified of the robowaifu age
>>341730736
Are you retarded? They won't localize it elsewhere because they would need to remake the whole character for each country so they look like an actual character from those countries. It's never going out of Japan.
>>341735441
>fang on meido
>>341731127
Wrong, you'd still need to have black, arab, yellow men VR or people would complain as well. But you didn't read the OP, did you?
>>341730670
>mfw I have a NA, Asia, Japan, and EU PSN account
I'll still get one way or another.
>>341735589
custom maid 2
>>341735621
i'm really excited for the potential future where vr takes over everything.
>every eroge is vr
>every anime is vr
>some movies are vr
>>341735790
no one wants arab/spic/black husbando though
>>341735531
>its about principles
>instead of ignoring them and watching them fade into obscurity we pretty much gave them a platform to stand on and raised them to fame
Yeah that worked our really well. Hope your principles were worth it.
>>341735903
Is it possible to get CM2 running onWin10?
>>341736032
obviously
>tfw have a ~90 year old grandpa
>after grandma died he's just slowly decaying away
>tied to a wheelchair, can't go fishing anymore
>this game would have given him a chance to experience love again
SJWs ruin everything without thinking of people that could actually profit from this technology, just because they think it's creepy.
It makes me furious how ignorant people can be. Try to live life in the shoes of another for one day and be tolerant
>>341736017
They were. We remain proud and tall, while you weasles cower in fear of our logic and intellect. The war was long time comming. We needed to prod the enemy into action so we could unveil the truth even for the bluest pilled faggots about women
>>341736116
Your grandpa is a cuck. He should be happy he finally is freed from a parasite slut who probably leeched all his money away.
>>341730670
I'm confused I thought they had the tech for mouthflaps
>>341736126
>>341736098
How? All the instructions I've found are for 7/8
>>341731382
nigger, first excuse harada says is the language and lip sync barrier and you expect it to be launched in fucking europe?
>>341736298
>Excuse
I dunno man, that does seem like a big issue.
>>341736116
But sjws didnt stop this game from coming West. Harada did. No one gave a shit about it and I really doubt there would have been a backlash.
Plus thinking of your probably racist ass old jiji getting Japanese lessons from a Jap girl is disgraceful. His friends didn't die in Pearl harbor so you could strap a Jap made contraption to his head and force him to tutor the enemy.
Isn't this game where the girl is tutoring you in english or something?
I guess if they wanted to release in the west they'd have to redo the script and have her tutor you in japanese
Harada and japan must be blessing the "sjw". They're literally the perfect excuse when a jap dev is too lazy to actually put in some real effort like english into their games.
>>341736276
Not an argument.
>>341731934
>they didn't even plan to make a full game out of it, until fans showed interest
>there wasn't enough interest
>they explicitly mention SJW backlash
>muh SJW
Yeah, no. You can go fuck yourself.
>>341736701
+ free advertising
social media was a mistake
SJW apologists in full swing shilling today.
>>341736504
SJW are literally complaining about the concept of sex bots
>>341732041
>Or maybe that was the new Berserk game
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>>341736858
Show me something substantial. Some actual evidence of this. Not some fringe lunatic. I want a source.
>>341736751
>it's not SJW that most japanese games dont comming out
keep telling yourself that shitfaggot
>>341737147
>>341736751
>>341737105
Its not. Japanese games don't sell in the West anymore. If anything blame the normies and their triple AAA titles and Ubisoft games that sell millions. Compared to that it's just not worth it for anyone to localize niche titles anymore.
>>341737364
You're trying to hard mate. I was pretending to be an SJW in another thread because some guy was getting all ass-blasted about it. You can't use a quote and pair it with such an outrageous pic like that. No ones going to believe you. Too heavy handed.
>>341737368
>Japanese games don't sell in the West anymore
get out
>>341737509
>I was only pretending to be retarded
>>341735216
muh nigga
>>341734014
>Its on the vive.
Why even bother getting a girlfriend once this technology takes off
>>341737693
So you can have some white children and save the human race.
>>341737368
>it's just not worth it for anyone to localize niche titles anymore.
So? Nobody wants a localization anyways, just include English text in your game and let me import, even if it's machine translated
>>341737693
Why do you think feminists have been so up in arms over sexy videogame women? they saw it coming before anyone else did.
>>341737693
>Why even bother getting a girlfriend
Because women aren't just for sex, a good wife is supposed to complete you and make you a better man.
God made it this way on purpose.
>>341735003
he's not you, why are you upset?
>Son, are ya winning?
>>341737442
>>341737442
You can return google results for anything. One of these is literally redit. This is exactly what I was talking about in this post>>341734793
This idea to ban sex bots is literally ONE university professors idea. Reddit, and some mra groups took her idea and made a stink of it, after which some sites like bbc and the Mirror reported on it. After that maybe it gained a little more traction. But it wasn't sjws plural. It was literally ONE woman.
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
(CAN'T WAKE UP)
Lemme at a fucking petition
>>341738410
>bbc and mirror reported
Thats that or will you only care if people are burning shit on the streets against sex bots
>>341734014
No.
http://www.vrfocus.com/2015/12/harada-confirms-summer-lesson-wont-be-supporting-htc-vive/
>>341735361
This is what it's about.
It should be a pretty challenging game to play for non-fluent speakers of Japanese. The foreign student will probably be asking you to translate kanji, grammar, maybe the meaning of some Japanese idioms. And the Japanese girl student will likely be doing the same concerning English, though of course immersed in Japanese and expecting you to give complex Japanese explanations for her questions about English.
It may be less ambitious than NUDE@ on Xbox. But it'll probably be a teaching simulator for Japanese wanting to improve aspects of their English.
I'm thinking 2 difficulty levels. Easy: the Japanese girl student for intermediate learners of English. Mostly a refresher course encompassing standard Japanese grade school English language material. and the harder option, the foreigner: full English immersion, but easy questions about Japanese that you'll need to answer in English. Or explanations about Japanese that you'll need to answer ....in Japanese. And maybe some English quizzes testing your knowledge of English.
>>341738709
My point still stands. The idea that sexbots should be banned was held by one relatively unknown university professor. The concept only gained traction AFTER people started going "how dare they, the sjws want to take away muh freedom to fuck a robot".
Had people just ignored a fringe idea like that instead of manufacturing outrage with it there would have never been a BBC or Mirror article and your google search wouldn't have turned up much.
>>341738918
Then why the fuck was it there?
>>341739338
>just ignore it guys. Just like cancer, it goes away by itself if you pretend it's not there
>>341739338
So you are saying that because of one person even the BBC made an article, and you are saying that its the guys fault for not wanting to bring a game over when something so small(1 person bitching about it) gets an article in one of the biggest news sites of the west
>>341738304
me in 10 years
>>341738918
read this pcucks
>>341739684
I'm saying the woman didn't get the article on her own merit. She got an article AFTER people made a stink about it. The negative reaction to her thesis got it an article, NOT positive support for the idea. Which mean that there really aren't a lot of people so support banning sexbots, just an assload of people against the idea of banning sexbots. The BBC article doesn't agree or disagree with the concept, it just merely states that the idea exists and was created by that woman.
>>341735216
yes.
>>341738304
lol what, where's that from?
>>341737442
>All those alt right wing sites
Guess what, you can also find white power racists on stormfront! Who would have thought??
>>341740024
Source?
>>341737785
Humans don't deserve my superior genetic material. They're all rotten corrupt foul subhumans who doesn't appreciate a supreme intellect and nice polite personality. Fuck em.
>>341739981
again, would you want that kind of PR, people debate each other its only normal in this social media age
>>341731289
Did you watch Nintendo's E3?
They couldn't go 10 minutes without perving on any male character.
I don't really care one way or the other but imagine the outrage if someone on that stage made any comment on Lily.
>>341740139
Bocu No Pico
>>341740234
I'm just saying its contrived. It's not genuine. There aren't hoards of SJWs with pitchforks waiting to destroy sexbots and the same would be true of this game.
YES a few people might complain or call it creepy, but their voices wouldn't be nearly as loud as the people complaining that they were complaining.
>This game is sexist and creepy - some unknown blogger
> /v/, reddit,youtubers - HOLY SHIT THE SJWS ARE AT IT AGAIN,TUMBLR BTFO!!!!
And thus the cycle continues and the original blogger gets more notoriety and attention than they ever would have got if people just looked the other way.
>>341740139
Silver haired loli from fate stay night goes magical girl and acquires super gay harem of other lolis.
>>341736504
People said the same thing about DoAX3
When the Asian release came out it slammed anyway.
There was no backlash becuase it was stopped before there could be any.
>>341730670
>you have to have characters from every different race or nationality
A very silly excuse.
Asian girl and White one are already available.
Is that supposed to be difficult to create a Black one for the diversity?
>>341740641
But thats the thing, those bigger journalist sites live on clickbait, so if this game came out and there was even a small argument, some polygon site would make an article about it, and do you really want people to just sit there and take it, even if its not genuine its still bad
VR Movie OK?
>>341734592
>>341737668
>2016
>savior gaben meme
go back to fucking Reddit
>>341730670
>where you have to have characters from every different race or nationality, someone else would say ‘mine is not included,’ which is the climate we currently see with games. Since there are people who can’t set aside the game and the actual problems in society, I don’t want open that can of worms
I like weebshit now.
