It seems that of all the consoles we have available in the west the PS Vita is the one that has the most Japanese content that appeals to enthusiasts. I think that as an extension of anime and manga’s western appeal more and more people have an interest in the Tales Of series. With that said, I do think anime and manga has been gaining more and more market in the west and, following that trend to the extreme, I think the Tales Of series is really close to anime and manga. Honestly speaking I don’t feel the demand for the JRPG from the western audience has been massively increased. Speaking of business and requests from the western audience do you think the western market has changed since Tales of Hearts was first released? Do you think people in the west are interested JRPGs and other Japanese games more than they used to be? In the end, based on the strategy of Bandai Namco games and the requests from western fans it became possible to bring out Tales of Hearts R in the west. We are developing games for the business so we need to succeed in terms of that business. Why weren’t some Tales Of games, such as Tales of Hearts R, localised originally?Īt first we didn’t have any plans to localise Tales of Hearts R in the West, but we received a lot of requests about the PS Vita titles from the US and Europe! To make it happen we had to overcome various problems related to things like human resources and time budgets. But for now I’m really glad to bring Tales of Hearts out to the western fans! I think you may have questions about the other PS Vita titles, for example Tales of Innocence, but unfortunately I don’t have any plans to localise out to the West at the moment. But thanks to the hard work of the development team members I’m really glad to bring Tales of Hearts out in the west, which will be the first Tales Of title for the PS Vita in Europe. This is because our priority is to bring the brand new flagship console titles to the west as soon as possible. I just wanted to ask you how you’re feeling about finally releasing it in the west after so long.Īctually, overall, we have localised very few Tales Of titles for the handheld. Tales of Hearts R is the PS Vita remake of Tales of Hearts which we didn’t get in the west before. More stock coming to the Rice Digital store soon (once we’ve recovered from MCM)! I told him how pleased I was to meet him and that I was going to mainly ask him about Tales of Hearts R and he smiled and nodded, sitting to attention next to his ever present cat plushie. I knew then that everything was going to be okay. As he excitedly spoke about it with his translator I breathed out. Baba’s face lit up, overjoyed about the Rice Digital exclusive t-shirt I was wearing, a cute number depicting our tanooki mascot nibbling away at a bundle of rice balls. Looking at my t-shirt for the first time Mr. Even with that, though, I was a little nervous as I was led up to the interview room to meet the man himself. We were introduced and I sat down.
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