[EVA] PS2 Release in the States?

[Aaron Clark]

Evangelion games have always been successful in Japan due to its 
mainstream presence and popularity.  However in the western world it 
occupies a very small niche, where only a handful of devoted evangelion 
fans who also happen to be avid gamers would be interested in buying 
it.  Even if they were to sell several thousand to ten thousand copies, 
which I think would be quite modest considering its demographic, it 
would still be a financial loss.  It would be one thing if they were 
simply porting the game over, but are you aware just how much dialogue 
would need to be translated?  Stacks of books worth of dialogue.  
Theres much more dialogue than the series and movies combined.  The 
development studio, or any company that would attempt or consider 
bringing Evangelion 2 to the western or english speaking market would 
actually stand to lose money.  It just isn't finanicially viable to 
do.  If Evangelion had the mainstream popularity of say Dragon Ball Z, 
Beyblade, Digimon, Pokemon, or Gundam, then I could conceed the 
possibility of it making its way over here.  But until the time that 
Eva gets put on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and becomes some sort of 
phenomenon, its simply not going to come over here.

The only way you're going to play it is by either importing it and 
learning some Japanese, or pray that some Eva geeks with too much time 
on their hands decided to decompile the game, translate, and pirate it.

--Aaron Clark
http://www.evamonkey.com/
http://eva.trivialbeing.net/

> Does anybody know if the Shinseiki Evangelion 2 game will be released 
State-side, cause I want to play.
> 
> Dennis
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