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Castle Crashers featured in Japan's PSN 'Western Game Buyer Selection'

by JC Fletcher on Nov 24th 2010 11:55AM

The American PSN recently got a storefront for imported Japanese games, but it's limited entirely to PSOne downloads. Sony is launching an import selection for the Japanese PSN as well, which includes more recent downloadables from the west.

The inaugural offerings on the "Western Game Buyer Selection" label on November 25 will include Castle Crashers for ¥1,500, Comet Crash for ¥1,000, and the PlayStation Mini Young Thor for ¥500. The screenshots sent out by Sony include no Japanese text, so it's likely these will be dropped on PSN untranslated, like the PSOne Imports in North America. We hope for Japan's sake that Sony is as diligent about populating this service as MonkeyPaw Games is here.

[Update: Pelfast studio head John Bates got in touch with us to let us know that Comet Crash, at least, has been professionally localized for Japan. So this is more than a simple storefront for unlocalized games!]

Via: Andriasang
Source: JP.PlayStation.com

Tags: Castle-Crashers, comet-crash, japan, playstation, ps3, psn, psp, sony, western-game-buyer-selection, young-thor

Reader Comments (12)

They probably think some of our Western games are weird like we think some of their games are weird. They are probably like - "Why do all western games have gratuitous violence with unnecessary swearing by muscle dudes?" Just like we are like - "Why are there all these skimpy dressed 13 year old girls in these games"?

@FriedConsole

needz moar tentacle

@FriedConsole: I take it that you never watch gory anime like Claymore, Berserk, and When they Cry-Higurashi, right? Did you forget Japan produced some of the goriest movie like Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer, Tokyo Gore Police, and Machine Girl.

I hope they enjoy our games. I kind of feel like the West has become the reigning champs of game development over the past decade and I am sure they will be able to appreciate our style. Perhaps they will become popular enough to inspire the devs over there, who have apparently become jaded according to some like Inafune.

Pfft, Microsoft and EA have cornered the market on stuffing Japanese game shops full of unwanted untranslated English games. You lost this battle before you even started, Sony. ;)

@TheMCFacemanBandcampcom
Who buys anything this close to thanksgiving? You kinda deserved that.

Can we get the oposite? A store where us westerners can get those gems that were never translated to english?

@Dextro: We already have, Look under the Japanese PS1 import on the Playstation Store.

@Dextro: We already have. Look under PS1 Classics and you should see Japanese imports.

@mdo7
I'm in Europe and have no such thing here :(

@mdo7 I think it should be more extensive...but I won't complain much...its a start at least.

I'm so glad PS3 doesn't region code-lock games and I *fully* support this.

@Dextro: Oh, I didn't know. Well I guess this process will take a while for Europe to get. But be patient.

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