Valkyria Chronicles 3 not planned for North America, Europe

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 11th 2011 7:15PM

Sega isn't planning to localize PSP strategy RPG Valkyria Chronicles 3: Unrecorded Chronicles for North America or Europe. Gamespot confirmed the news in a recent interview with Sega's executive in charge of console sales, Hiroshi Seno. Sega suggests the PSP isn't popular enough in Western markets, and that Valkyria Chronicles 2 didn't sell well enough to justify localization.

Asked if VC3 would be available as a downloadable Vita title, Seno said the publisher would discuss it with Sony. Valkyria Chronicles 3 sold 102,779 units during its launch week, the strongest debut yet for the series.

Listen, if Sega wants to skip bringing VC3 overseas and diverts that budget into funding a console game like the original Valkyria Chronicles, we're all for that. At least, that's what we'll be telling ourselves for a while.

Source: Gamespot

Tags: playstation, psp, Sega, sony, valkyria-chronicles-3

Reader Comments (77)

Maybe we'll get a Vita game eventually. I hope...

@Shiv Thrice

And then they complain when somebody finds a way to "run" this games...........................

Not surprising, I guess. I'd like another console one or for the Vita, with the PSP on it's way out.

@Yongousen Thanks. Glad to see the grammar nazis are on the usual night patrol.

@Yongousen It's not an acronym so why are you using capitals?

Sega = idiots! Why they took this to the PSP in the first place I will never know. I don't have a PSP so I guess the original will be all that I will ever see of this series.

@Cranky Penguin

Here I'll tell you why.

This game is a Japanese RPG. In Japan, the PSP is extremely popular!!!

Make game for extremely popular platform.

???

Super Profit!!

@Cranky Penguin make up for lost profits from the 1st VC. people pretty much ignored it despite being a really good game.

@Kage25
If that was the case, then they wouldn't have bothered with VC2. I think they should have keep the series on PS3. Less piracy and better chance of people buying.

@xiLeShadow

Port to PS3 and send to NA, More profit!!! Or PSN. I need more VC!

@Cranky Penguin about time you get one then?

I agree that they should have kept it to PS3. Never a good idea to change platforms after the first installment of a new game series.

But, dear Sega - if you want to provide HD remasters of VC2 & 3 for PS3 I will buy them!

@Pure Black World Tendency
Honestly, they should've kept it on the 360, like originally planned, until Sony got its paws on it and paid to make it exclusive.

If it was on the 360 from the get-go, they might've been on VC4!

@Pure Black World Tendency They don't even have to be HD. Just make them available for the PS3 in some form and I will gladly give Sega more money. Hell I already have Valkyria Chronicles 2 but if they released both of the PSP versions together then I would gladly buy it.

@civilciv you missed the part where i said good game. they didn't make enough to keep putting out copies, it's also due to ps3's high price during the time.

@Kage25

I didn't miss that. You made a good point. It was one of the PS3's earlier titles, and I believe it was before the price drop, so it might have flown under a lot of people's radar.

But even then, it sold over 500,000 copies.

@Cranky Penguin

I know! I literally bought a PS3 to play VC, and sold it after beating it (and then being disappointed in RE3 and GTA IV).

I would probably convert back to play another VC and maybe try Heavy Rain.

@civilciv
it's not really a subject of debate.

you can refuse to believe it if you want, but Sega outright acknowledged that the shift to the PSP was to offset the high production costs of the PS3 and try to make the series profitable.
the reason they gambled on continuing the series is they acknowledged the critical acclaim the first game got, but they lost money on it.

@StarcasM lol Most of X360 gamers do not care about this type of games. Compare sales of Vesperia and VC.

@Pure Black World Tendency

Microsoft doesn't like Japan :D

@Cranky Penguin You don't have a PSP, and yet you're on here b*tching about why this is on the PSP and how that's a botch move by SEGA in the first place.

Desperate troll is desperate?

. . .and by here, I mean a PSP/Vita blog.

Hopefully they can work out a Vita release. A console release like the original game would be super delicious. This is a good series, I wish not to miss out.

...And another reason why I'm glad I took up Japanese as my foreign language back in middle and high school :)

Awesome game. Shame the NAs / EUs can't play it (or could they?!?!?!?!?)

@Narmo23

Not if it requires book-learning. I like my foreigners to talk to me in perfect English.

@Narmo23
You were offered Japanese?! All we got was Spanish and French, not even German!

@Lannden If it matters, I went from public to private for my middle & high school days.

I really wanted to take French, but I was persuaded to pick up another language because my brother was learning it -- someone wanted some variety!

@Yongousen And what makes you think that the only experience that I've had learning Japanese was just from school?

Taking Japanese in school was what made me learn it in the first place.

Try to actually look beneath the surface next time; the cheap shot was evaded rather easily.

@Narmo23 Just realized that my last post was.. my 3rd! What awesomeness.

To end things because I honestly don't want to have some pointless discussion on the internet:

1. Yeah, I beat the game. Yes, I understood what was happening and why based on my knowledge of the language.

2. Yeah, your Japanese is probably better than mine (11 years staying in Japan vs. "lol" school Japanese + housing a Japanese exchange student). I could honestly care less, however, so sorry!

@Narmo23 I'd import, but unlike you, I am not smart enough to learn Japanese.

Although I am smart enough to get on PSP blogs as a non-PSP user, and then complain about a game that I think shouldn't be on the PSP, just for the heck of being some exclusive/separatist fanatic.

Understandable.

Once shooter "fever" dies in the Western markets, then maybe we will start seeing more diversity in the gaming market here.

That is, if shooter "fever" ever dies off. Right now everyone is pumping shooter after shooter after shooter. And if that wasn't enough, they are making non-shooter IPs, into shooters themselves.

Ugh...they should port it to 3DS. =)

@xiLeShadow

Please. If you're going to give anyone shit for lack of diversity in the video game market, make it the Japanese. They haven't come up with a new idea for years now.

@xiLeShadow
The industry's going to be chasing "fevers" collectively rather than be more diverse as soon as (or, if ever) the "shooter fever" dies.

Publishers can't be arsed to take risks anymore, because they'd rather pump out crap, derivative titles and shutter studios that produce them when they're not selling like CoD, rather than find a niche and makes games for that niche within those constraints.

Do you enjoy ridiculously plotted games about mopey teenagers fighting in a war, with terrible hair and equally atrocious voice acting?

You don't?

Tough shit, here's the next Valkyria game.

@DasMadHatter
You don't like recycled game mechanics, virtually nonexistent story, and a 2 1/2 hour single player campaign?
Tough shit, here's the new COD.
On a side note, did you just see Valkyria Chronicles and go to town on the comments section? it appears that you didn't read the article.

I prefer it on the console, but I did buy Valkyria Chronicles 2 for the PSP, so they had my money.

Put this game out on the PS3 instead of the PSP. Remove the 1 minute load times of the original game. Profit.

Tis a shame, especially since the series is a solid one. Just bring it over to the 3DS/Vita/PS3 and we shall be happy. :D

Because people would vastly prefer a PS3 VC game, not a PSP one.

Vita port on PSN please. If they bring it out during launch, it will do very well.

This hurts, especially since this one seemed much more mature.

Sometimes it really feels like Sega hates money. They could release a new VC on ps3 every year or two and cash in. Recycle the engine for all I care.

Between this and PSO2 im starting to think Sega doesn't love me anymore.

Honestly I was kinda bummed out by VC2, especially in comparison to the original. If they move the series back to consoles count me as excited but I didn't even enjoy 2 enough to finish it.

I just wish they would have made a proper sequel on PS3. Oh well. At least the game closed things up at the ending.

So apparently I should've pirated VC2 instead of buying it at full retail to support Sega. Thanks, Sega!

Anyway, they don't need to do a full localization. Just translate the UI (already done with strings from VC2) and subtitle the Japanese voice acting in some vaguely understandable Engrish. Feed it through Google Translate, whatever. You don't have to dub everything...

Two Years Ago:

Japan: "The only way we can survive is to make all of our games like Western games and aggressively pursue the Western audience!"

Now:

Japan: "Who cares if we have fans that buy our games, we will never release our stuff outside of Japan! Take that, Western gamers!"

Thanks for ruining it for everyone, jerks that didn't buy VC2. Jerks.

"and that Valkyria Chronicles 2 didn't sell well enough to justify localization."

Did Sega HONESTLY expect a game that BARELY improved upon the original and was shifted to a new platform to sell well to begin with? VC2 replaced the somewhat interesting story from the first game with a cliché anime-based school storyline and the game's only real improvement was the ability to "promote" units to stronger classes. In return, the game suffered in every other regard, including the choice of platform. Yes, the PSP is big in Japan, but Sega needs to realize that not everyone that bought the original necessarily has a PSP to play the new game.

The disappointing thing is that VC3 is EASILY better than 2 was, in every regard. Maybe they should have not localized 2 and tested the water with 3 instead. Oh well, it's not like Sega's actually been great to consumers since they got bought by Sammy. I stopped thinking that Sega could actually do something right a long time ago. At this rate, with this, what Nintendo is up to, etc., I think I might pass on the next generation of gaming altogether. For every gem like VC1, there's way too much crap that it just makes it not worth it.

Sega should set up a Kickstarter project and let the fans fund the localization, and if you kick in $10 you get a $10 off code for the game or something like that. Then they don't have to guess whether it's popular enough, if it's popular enough it will pay for itself.

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