Yakuza: Ishin

[Neon Ignition]

http://the-magicbox.com/1308/game130818b.shtml

The next Yakuza game has been announced but so far very little is known.

[kryss]

I'm really hoping WiiU...or 3DS.

[Guts]

So basically it's Kenzan 2 set in the 19th century. Which means we definitely will never see it in English. Like we most likely won't see Yakuza 5.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/426184/first-yakuza-ishin-screenshots-released/

First screens appear, there's some rumour it's for PS4.

[VR46]

First review is in, from Famitsu.

Yakuza: Ishin (PS4) – 9/10/10/10 [39/40]

[VR46]

New screenshots, is $52 from Yes Asia.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/02/19/new-1080p-screenshots-from-ps4-version-of-yakuza-ishin-look-beautifully-realistic/

[kryss]

$74 for the Asian version, $80 for the Japanese one. Unless I'm missing something.

[VR46]

Err sorry will come back to you on that, was going on what a writer said on another site, expecting he meant Pounds sorry.

[DeathAdder]

Asian version? Is that likely to be in English?

Edit - seems not. Oh well.

[cutmymilk]

Surely adding subtitles is not THAT big a job and would get a few thousand import sales. I really don't understand the omission.

[fuse]

Surely adding subtitles is not THAT big a job and would get a few thousand import sales. I really don't understand the omission.

Erm, it actually *is* that big a job.

[kryss]

Translation, checking and timing is hundreds of man hours.

[cutmymilk]

Under the assumption that the Japanese is already subtitled it is just the translation, no? Big job, yes, but look at all the completely niche martial arts movies that get English subs.
I suppose the games menus etc make it a little harder though.

[Team Andromeda]

Translation, checking and timing is hundreds of man hours.

Plus you had to pay for Producers on both sides, have to work with SONY America who are a little anti non english dub's and then you have to try and retail to buy and stock the product on the shelves. For niche games like Yakuza with hours and hours of worth of speech and text , its not really worth it

[endo]

How many words of dialogue are in a game like this? Translation isn't particularly cheap, and JP>EN is expensive anyway, so it would be a fairly major outlay for probably not that much of a reward. Maybe there are some examples that buck the trend, but niche martial arts films aren't usually lauded for the quality of their translated subtitles.

Menus and things are the least of it when translating something like this. The hard part is capturing the mood of the dialogue and rendering it credibly in English.