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/
>>342348414
man, japs don't know anything about weebs
Alright and?
We got T7 on PC in exchange for a VR demo, I'll take it.
>"I don’t want open that can of worms.”
>WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR GAMES AWAY
We must purge the Left.
Good, because it would just make me want to kill myself even more.
>>342348414
>people who can’t set aside the game and the actual problems in society
SJWs BTFO
>>342348414
>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.
This is a marketing move. They are trying to use controversy to sell a game. This is the Hatred effect. The PR is saying the game is being held back in order to create interest in it. Very similar to DoAX3. Please do not buy into obvious marketing plan.
Apologies for unskilled English.
>>342351508
I don't fucking care, I wanted this ever since it was first known about. I'm not being marketed to here, I'm already sold on it. I just want the damn game. I wish companies wouldn't pull this horseshit.
>>342349680
The hardcore ones probably already thinking about importing it since day one
>>342350759
>WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR GAMES AWAY
they didn't, Harada did
>We must purge the Left.
we shouldn't silence people so that developers (who are being way too sensitive to the opinions of people well outside the target market for the game) can feel safe
>>342348414
Okay, i'll just import
>>342352024
>Harada did
Because of them.
>we shouldn't silence people
I want my fucking VR waifu simulator and I will do anything to make that possible. I don't care about morals. I don't care about personal liberties. I don't care about "the right thing to do". Look what being right and respectful has done for us, we're all underneath the bootheels of those leftist PC cunts. Letting them have their freedom of speech has only led to them being able to suppress ours. So no, I don't care about liberty, or freedom, or morality. I just want my fucking VR waifu simulator. Everything else can burn if it means I get that.
weebs BTFO
AHAHAAHAH
GO IMPORT YOUR WAIFU GAME IDIOTS
>>342348414
thanks feminism
we don't need those waifus competing with women over here
>>342352381
Well to be fair with you, you can still get the game since the PS4 is not region locked.
The only problem is learning nip. Since you shown that you're very enthusiastic about this sim I guess you will have no problem learning.
>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.
This is why we can't have nice things. Because the left doesn't want us to.
>>342348414
We've already HAD this thread, and the reason they're not releasing it here is because they'd have to remake the whole fucking thing. The game is all about language, English and Japanese. Simply translating it wouldn't accomplish jack shit. Harada is just making a post-hoc justification that doesn't involve the obvious costs, because he's obviously not comfortable with just going "we don't feel like budgeting it".
It's not even a game.
It's not interesting.
It's pointless.
WHY do you care so damn much?
>just ignore them they said
>they're just a loud minority they said
>they're not taking your games away they said
>>342353032
>>342352889
Why aren't we literally going out and killing them yet?
Why?
I actually wanted to play this game. Welp another negative on psvr
>>342348414
tfw no gf irl or vr
>doesn't even have lewd
I'm looking forward to what actual waifu simulator devs will do with VR, not some washed up hack who makes some cucking techdemo.
>>342352963
inb4 you're called a censorship apologist
Thanks 'murrica.
Just add subtitles. Oh Japan, you still think the world is dumb and japs are more intelligent? That's why Japanese RPGs are failing while Western RPGs are flourishing because they don't assume/presume japs are the only intelligent people in the world.
>>342352381
>I want my fucking VR waifu simulator and I will do anything to make that possible.
Then learn Japanese and import it. PS4 isn't region locked. There is nothing stopping you except yourself
This list has grown so much since 2015.
It's coming to PC though.
>>342348414
>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.”
he's not wrong, you know
>>342353071
It's not legal
>>342354382
it's shrink even more.
DoA DID come over here, SFV and Fatal Frame weren't taken away, very minor content was altered.
Literally NONE of the games quoted about in that image were taken away.
>>342354574
I will make it legal.
http://www.vg247.com/2016/06/22/meiq-labyrinth-of-death-refused-classification-in-australia/
if this censorship crap carrys on for much longer I will fucking learn moon just to spite you.
>>342354562
fucking norway
Norway Australia Germany and Sweeden actually ban games for sale on a government list. Whenever you hear about content concerns, it's always them.
>>342353409
what a strange webm. why are her hips moving on their own
Does anyone have the song they used in the trailer? It was super catchy.
>>342354562
did you forget fallout 4, the game that consist of only american? or blops 3, the whitest and most angloitis game on the planet? witcher 3, the game featuring a guy go from place to place fucking various woman (only white women though, fucking pollocks), sometimes outright buying sex? Even dragon fucking age cisquisition feature FEMALE nudity, no male though because benis is too much for ppl over 17 yo
All of them are the biggest games of 14 and 15, win various awards and praised by the majority of critic and buyers.
"I-It's the sjw opressor" is a fucking weak excuse. Just say you dont have the budget to do that or better: "We are fucking pussies"
>>342352963
fuck off normie
>>342352024
>WE'LL FUCKING KILL YOU IF YOU RELEASE THE GAME HERE
>game isnt released here
>WE DINDU NUFFIN, THEY CHOSE NOT TO RELEASE IT
>>342355395
did they really send Harada death threats
>>342355347
The Japanese boobie games feature girls that are supposed to be high school girls. As in 14-19 years old. The freshmen through most juniors are under age and certain European countries started cracking down on it. The companies don't have a budget to make several different versions and go for the lowest common denominator.
>>342355771
>the companies don't have the budget
It would take literally one single person a couple days tops to find all references to them being underaged and change it.
This could even be done as a part of localizing. Random shit already get changed. If they have the budget for localization, they have the budget to make these changes.
>>342354791
Start now since this shit ain't going away anytime soon.
>>342356560
They only want to write the code once. These are people that won't pay for an extra day in a studio to finish recording dialogue equal to the Japanese version.
>>342348414
>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.”
fuckin sjw
>>342353032
>"just ignore them they said"
as if anyone ever ignored them
we got to this point because you didn't
you should have listened, this is your fault
>>342348414
Can I still import it like I did with DOAX3?
>>342348414
>you have to have characters from every different race or nationality
>you have to have characters from every different race or nationality
>you have to have characters from every different race or nationality
>YOU HAVE TO HAVE THEM, ABSOLUTES
SJWs WOULDN'T RUIN VIDEOGAMES THEY SAID
>>342354430
Already confirmed that it's not and that was a mistake
>>342356758
It has nothing to do with the code itself, just the text variables. Something that a localization team would ALREADY be changing.
They already make a note to change every instance of a character named "Rorentso" to "Lawrence", they can add another note to change a character's age from 16 to 18 and class from Junior to Senior. It's work that they're already doing.
Isn't it mostly because it's a game about teaching someone English/Japanese and thus extremely difficult to localize?
>>342354756
I'll vote for you.
>>342348414
OP, thank you for posting the article.
There's no penetration, right?
>>342357445
Ssshhhh don't post facts here. Only bogeyman speak is allowed.
>>342357445
>>342357824
>facts
Did you read the OP? Harada gives his reasoning and that isn't part of what he said
>>342358041
Whatever his reasoning is, it sure is fucking convenient that it saves him the trouble of rewriting the game so it can be understood by a foreign audience.
>>342358568
He mentions localization being very difficult as part of it, just not for those reasons.