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This isn't news if you were keeping up with who was in charge at these companies at the time. Bernie Stolar, great nemesis of all Sega fagboys, was heading up SCEA for the Playstation before getting booted and worming his way into being in charge of the Dreamcast. He fucking hated 2D games AND Japanese-y games, said they weren't what the Playstation was about and that gamers only wanted the new cutting edge 3D/FMV stuff, and would regularly cockblock localizations during his tenure with Sony. The only way you could get either of those brought outside of Japan is if you were big name company like Capcom, Squaresoft, Konami, etc. and/or a relevant enough company that was leaving Nintendo behind in order to support the Playstation brand like Capcom, Squaresoft, Konami, etc.
Working Designs got the worst of it because they originally got in good with Sony to bring over a bunch of localizations until Bernie Stolar threw their plans into the garbage. He's quoted as saying that Sony "has no plans of adding non-action titles to [the PS1] library", which is a massive irony given that JRPGs were the console's bread and butter in all regions except western europe, but since the company didn't come from one of the two previously-mentioned categories they basically had no way of getting a second chance with Sony. WD wound up having to wait until after Bernie left to actually get some PS1 localizations onto store shelves.