I'm gonna be naive and think that game developers are actually reading this post.
As a Norwegian I've been pretty vexed with the delayed releases in Europe, especially by the likes of Nintendo and other Japanese developers.
Apparently one of the reasons for this is because of the time it takes to translate the game from English (or Japanese?) to German, French, Spanish and Italian.
This pisses me of for many reasons:
1. Why should we have to suffer because of some certain countries inability to learn English?
2. My country doesnt get any translated version, and we dont need one either.
3. I've been learning English since I first laid my meaty sausage fingers on a copy of 'Lylat Wars' when i was 6 years old. I'd assume that some countries would greatly improve their English skills if they only have stopped dubbing all their entertainment and instead just use subtitles.
You have no idea how fun I had watching dubbed versions 'The Simpsons' and 'Friends' on those rainy days in Mallorca. I'm not really sure what the tourist nation of Spain thought there.
I'm pretty sure the UK residents must be more pissed about this than I am.
So why not release the games in the 'English region' simultaneously with the US?
What is the 'English region' you say?
It is an gathering of European countries with English as the native language and where they undersand English perfectly. That being: UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. A total market of 91 million people in other words.
And why not include Australia and New Zealand while we're at it? They suffer even more than us! That would mean an market of 115 million people!
And there's probably other countries with good English skills that could join the "Axis of English". Like Netherlands for instance, wich would result in an market of 130 million people -- rivaling Japan itself.
Now before you comment, I realize that there are other issues resulting in delays than just translating issues -- like laziness.
I cant belive the waiting we went through for Super Paper Mario, Okami and Final Fantasy XII where caused by translation issues.
Thank you for taking your time to read this post. Its my first blog post and I hope to be making more in the future. Also, the blog header is temporary.
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