Gyakuten Saiban 3 to include English translation

You mean just like GS RE-releases it has English.

BTW it's only out a month earlier, so please don't import. The fourth coming out in the US depends on sales.

I second Lwelyk.

The Japanese DS releases having an English option is an incentive for owners of the original GBA versions to buy the game again, so that they can try their hand at the game in a foreign language.
This gave Capcom USA minimal costs for bringing the game to America.

Since GS4 was brand new for the DS, and not a re-release, it didn't have an English option.
Because of this, Capcom USA will have to put their own efforts into localizing GS4.


So, yeah. Buy the American version.

I dunno, I never heard there was going to be a GS3 rerelease in Japan until now - well after the announcement of Ace Attorney 3. So, I'm thinking that they didn't bother until the Capcom USA team was working on a translation from fan reaction. Obviously, if there was already going to be a translation and a DS version (either requested of the remake team by Capcom USA or made by a Capcom USA team), there was no reason at all for them not to make a Japanese release along the lines of 2.
Anyway, that said... why bother importing? The translations have been fantastic, and it's only a month... even less if, like me, you never spring for fast shipping.
Unless, of course there's some nifty bonus only in Japan... but Capcom USA wouldn't gyp us out of something neat like that, especially with the releases so close... would they? Naw... I hope... >.>

Well, Axel, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think PWAAJFA was announced before GS2DS was. Even so, they received the game before we did.

I can't image we'd lose anything, seeing as how there was a bonus (JFA strap, IGIARI! screen cleaner, and Phoenix's Pointy Finger of Legal Doom stylus) with JFA reserves.

I'd bet it'd be the same bonus, but with a T&T strap, instead.

Was it? I thought that GS2 was planned as a follow-up to the first remake well before AA2 was announced. I know that they were released half a year apart, rather than six months.
The big tension about whether there would be a third Ace Attorney was that the work of porting everything to the DS wasn't already done for Capcom USA like it was before, so it would be a lot more work than 1 or 2 if they didn't know it would sell well.