Shinji Mikami's studio gets Skyrim shipment, may never get any work done now

by Jessica Conditt on Dec 3rd 2011 8:00AM

Former Capcom superstar Shinji Mikami formed the development studio Tango last year, and it has yet to produce a tangible product -- and after this generous gift from sibling company Bethesda Game Studios, we shouldn't expect any progress for another year or so. Bethesda, part of the Zenimax Group with Tango, sent one Skyrim collector's edition for every employee at Mikami's studio, which, as we can see in the photo, is more than two.

Tango is based in Tokyo, but Bethesda sent over English versions of Skyrim because there is no collector's edition for the Japanese version, and because people in countries that aren't the U.S. generally know more than one language. They call it globalization. Weird.

Source: Andriasang

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Reader Comments (58)

Looks like combining Skyrim with real life Minecraft. They are definitely not going to get anything done!

@NBear927

Sounds like corporate espionage to me.

That applies to the UK too.
We generally don't learn languages either.

Of course some people do, But a lot more don't.

@LEONLEONLEON

oh don't listen to Jessica Conditt. she's just a little trendy girl with a big mouth and a lot of opinions.

@Liquidfingers

Oh its the weekend already? Time to avoid the Stiq.

@(Unverified)

Was there something I missed? Both Conditt and Mallory have either been genuinely funny or entirely inoffensive since starting here. What, did you want one of those weekend positions?

@LEONLEONLEON

Really? I thought we were the only Western country that was falling behind because of our broken public school system...that might explain why the UK has been economically surpassed recently by France.

That would make the UK the third richest country in Europe, though on a global scale it will be much lower than that.

@Liquidfingers

She only speaks the truth. Alot of schools in the U.S. are embarrassingly bad, and the typical American doesn't speak a fluent 2nd language.
High schools just don't general have a solid focus in helping develop that ability.

That's a gift that totals OVER 9000 in value!!!

@JakeAuditore

That's a meme that totals over 9000 years in age!

Hold on... Why am I reading this and not playing Skyrim? God damn it!

@LEONLEONLEON

Friends don't let friends stop playing skyrim.

@LEONLEONLEON

Because you don't work at Tango.

that's so sweet of them.

I still don't have Skyrim :(

@The Cole Train
Don't make bad choices

@Warlock234

Maybe he took an arrow to the knee?

@343 Guilty Fart

I took an arrow to the knee. I didn't even make it to work this weekend to put in my comp hours.

@The Cole Train Honestly... if you want a fun, gigantic fantasy playground, you really should get Skyrim. However, if you want to feel like an adventurer in a vast and terrifying fantasy world, get Dark Souls.

I prefer the latter.

English will eventually be a universal language, I'm thinking.

@Warlock234
Unless Chinese takes over first. They're pretty competitive.

@Special Agent Steve
Draconian should be the worldwide spoken language. :P

@Warlock234

I'm banking on Klingon being the universal language when every one sees that it is the best language.

nuqneH

qaStaH nuq?

nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'

Hab SoSlI' Quch!

@Special Agent Steve

Isn't it more efficient if everybody just learned Esperanto or something like that?

Chinese is kind of a pain to learn...isn't the minimum barrier of entry for the language to be usable about 4000 characters?

Good for them ....shame my delivery NEVER came through..

that's a lot of Skyrim

That's right, Bethesda! Show them how it's done.

No doubt it is for the terrible PS3 version.

@Darki Dreamside

Hardly terrible.

Is there slow down at times? Sure. But considering in 103 hours I only froze three times, where as in Fallout 3 it was guaranteed every 5 hours.. I can forgive the slow downs - that have greatly improved since launch, though not 100% removed just yet.

Seems a dragon + a bunch of other enemies + exploring in an area you have yet to fully explore will freeze your console though, or that was just a total fluke.

This has been bethesda's best game performance wise, and most addictive. Oh god is it addictive.

As a person "in a country that is not the US" I can say that I actually learned most of my English from video games and comic books since both of these got to me quite some time before fifth grade (when we usually start to learn English over here).
I remember looking up words to understand the "halls of the blind" poem from Diablo and stuff like that. Then there was Morrowind... Hell, games are educational!

@sparkster I managed to learn perfect spelling by playing Pokemon and the like for years. Playing so much and reading so often help give you a feel for the language, and I'm hoping to find more books in French that will interest me enough to help me.

What was your first language?

@sparkster

Seconded. Videogames, school and then Internet helped me learn and master English (my first language is Spanish).

Of course, my first videogames didn't teach me very much. Old games don't have a lot of text (specially the ones I played), but in the SNES era they helped me a lot.

@sparkster

Well a lot of the things that the gaming community, comic community, and the "geek" community uses has real educational values. I grew up as a comic reader. I have been reading comic books since gosh I suppose the age of 5. I still read comics and have subscriptions to 5 DC comics still. I always found comics as a great tool to entice children into reading. While a children short story or novel might not be to enthralling for them I am sure they would love to read a comic book cover to cover.

Games and provide so much more than just entertainment, That can help educate.

@sparkster
The English language doesn't only exist in the US, you know. In fact, it came from England. You can be from a country besides the US and have English as your primary language.

That second language tends to be English because the worlds economy trades in US dollars

@GiantGamer ZeniMax Group owns them.

I'd definitely rather have the standard edition of a game in my primary language than the collector's edition in my secondary language.

@Mike Kelehan Something tells me a LOT of Tango's employees are thinking the same thing.

The Japanese aren't exactly known for their mad English skills.

I've not got Skyrim.

Perfect way to sabotage a company:
Give all the employees Skyrim.

23 boxes of video game related TAT. And Japanese homes are allegedly quite small, there's no room to house all this junk, and nowhere to hide it when trying to entertain a lady friend. Or man friend. Or both, at the same time.

I wish I could play Skyrim at my job. A Skyrim job if you will

As a kid, EGM and Toyfare magazine taught me all the english I needed to know.

I could tell by the subtle jab at Americans at the end of the article it was by Jess Conditt.

Thats a lot of Dragons

@Nolan North
Backwards flying dragons mind you =)

oh no big bad american/uk dont learn other languages because our language is already international. how dare us.

anyway... man those guys are lucky that collectors edition is so nice.

Most Japanese do not understand English very well. I saw a Reuters video that showed that Japan is the almost the least English fluent country in all of Asia. I think it was dumb of Bethesda to send English language copies to Japan.

@GuardianLegend
*Japan is almost the least

Are all those boxes to contain all the discs for a single copy?

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