/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

So when is Shin Koihime Musou getting an English release? Fan or official I don't care.

[Anonymous No.]

probably never
i doubt the first one sold much in english

[Anonymous No.]

It's already been released.

http://www.amazon.com/Shin-Koihime-Muso-Complete-Collection/dp/B004FZWDPQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid
=1326005936&sr=8-1

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375320

It sold "enough" according mangagamer. They mainly don't want to translate shin because it's fuckoff huge.

Supposedly they plan to release a Nexton game at the end of next year, and Nexton owns Baseson.

Nexton also owns a fuckton of other eroge brands though, so I would not get my hopes up

[Anonymous No.]

Everything is in your hands, OP:
Learn Japanese and translate it.
and/or
Buy 2k copies of the 1st game from MG, that should motivate them to release the 2nd one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375357
>Learn Japanese and translate it.

Amusingly enough, if you could con a group into translating, Mangagamer would be happy to release their work(for profit).

Koihime has sold about 1100 units. Which is profitable. Which is more than can be said for most of their games. (They've only actually made money on KiraKira, Shuffle, and Koihime)

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375370
goddamn how do they operate
they must have a shoestring budget

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375375

Mangagamer is completely funded by Overdrive because bamboo wants to fuck con chicks. True story.

"It'll be profitable one of these years so it's fine if we're in the red for now!"

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375384
i assume he is doing his fair share of fucking con girls for it to continue so long

[Anonymous No.]

Wouldn't it be cheaper to translate only all ages stuff (or remove the h) and sell them on digital distribution platforms for >8$ ? carpe fulgur and rocking android are doing that and they're doing great.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375414

Apparently Gabe Newell does not VNs, as both mangagamer and JAST approached valve about putting the all ages version of their games on Steam and he said "but these aren't games"

Meanwhile stuff like http://store.steampowered.com/app/72200/ gets on fine, but such is life.

As for why they don't try for impulse or d2d, it's a mystery

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375414
Supposedly it took a while for MG to set up the system they have now, so they don't wanna abandon it.
Also they tried to get some all-age games to Steam, but they didn't want them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375427
They're doing it wrong. Rocking Android managed to get a "all ages" game with frontal nudity published there.

anyway high school cherry comedy club or whatever it's called is coming to steam soon so things might change.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375440

Supposedly Valve is beginning to relent as I heard JAST managed to get Aselia's all ages version up, so perhaps at the end of year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375427
They should translate more of the VNs that have gameplay stuff in it. Koihime kind of counts as a game right?

Steam would probably allow VNs with gameplay and MG would probably get at least 1000 more sales on everything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375458

I don't think they've got any eroge with gameplay that they're even working on at the moment, beyond the nebulous "circus title with gameplay" which was mentioned ages ago.

If I had to guess, that title is probably Eternal Fantasy, and also if I had to guess, I'd say bamboo probably had a falling out with circus, as they haven't released anything by them lately. So I doubt they'll end up releasing that at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375414
Some all ages VNs have been localized and sold digitally but I don't think they did particularly well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375458
1000? try several tens of thousands
when a new game comes out it shows up in the new releases tab. there's 3 million people using steam at any given time. if just 1% of their userbase sees it and decides to buy it, they will get 30,000 sales, that's more than all their previous releases put together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375427

Interaction.