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Originally Posted by Yarrcanite
The thing is, they either had a fully or almost fully translated version of the game. I don't know if they outsourced the work, but it was going to be a translation and not a "localization". It got blocked pretty close to release date.
The only reason it wasn't released to western markets was Sony saying it wasn't suitable for the western audiences.
The game being fully released on the Asian markets, would have allowed them to just release the english translated version there as well and through importing the cost will be slightly higher to the consumer but the game would be available and they wouldn't have had to scrap the translation.
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I wouldn't be surprised if if went gold and just didn't pass Sony's inspection when considering the expected release window and the date they posted that the western version is cancelled.
I imagine they would probably lose money if they had to release locally for people to import (considering how niche the game is, and how low the number of people who import games are then mixing the statistics together). Their best bet would have been to just port it to PC, but that's assuming they don't have some kind of exclusivity deal with Sony.