Atlus is in trouble...

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Originally Posted by ferricide

uh, i thought nintendo was...

http://www.gamespy.com/e32003/preview/gcn/1002353/

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Nintendo had an image and a sentence or two about Sin and Punishment in their E3 2001 brochure thing. That never got localized. And it even says in the article you linked to "nor have they officially confirmed that an English language version will be released".

maybe if i can string some of these observations together, we can figure out what happened. =)

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Originally Posted by Yoman0chaos

If this is so, wouldn't they just strap on an "M" label? It hasn't stopped an RPG from selling *points to Parasite Eve*.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

The reason they picked EP instead of IS was because it was generally regarded as the better of the two. It came out later and they had more time to do what they wanted with it.

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Originally Posted by Werewolf

Personally Atlus and Atlus USA should'nt even be considered the same company IMO...

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you're right in suggesting that the content is probably not the reason.

the second almost hits the nail on the head, too.

and finally.. yes. that's also true.

it's not as if atlus USA gets these games for free and then a localization magically appears. they have to pay licensing fees to the japanese company (as do many US divisions of japanese companies) just like they do to nippon ichi for disgaea and just like WD is paying to atlus japan for GL2&3.

further there are other conflicts. one of them is re-coding the game for english. by the time a team moves on to its next project, they may not have time or interest in re-coding the changes needed for a localized version. atlus R&D1 seems particularly bad about this, and it contributed to the downfall of innocent sin's release in the US.

and atlus USA and atlus japan do not work very tightly together as far as i can tell.