And how it almost didn’t happen…
It’s hard to imagine now, given the incredible popularity of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games in the West, but it wasn’t always a given that Capcom was going to release the series outside of Japan.
Back when Capcom launched the very first version of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in 2001, in fact, the developer/publisher notably skipped out on launching the game outside of the country. Then, later on, during the development of its 2005 Nintendo DS remake, it almost reached the exact same decision again, believing that an adventure game about an Japanese defence attorney wouldn’t sell well enough outside of Japan to turn a profit, especially with the money it would take to translate its lengthy script into English, and the cost of marketing and manufacturing.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
And how it almost didn’t happen…
It’s hard to imagine now, given the incredible popularity of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games in the West, but it wasn’t always a given that Capcom was going to release the series outside of Japan.
Back when Capcom launched the very first version of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in 2001, in fact, the developer/publisher notably skipped out on launching the game outside of the country. Then, later on, during the development of its 2005 Nintendo DS remake, it almost reached the exact same decision again, believing that an adventure game about an Japanese defence attorney wouldn’t sell well enough outside of Japan to turn a profit, especially with the money it would take to translate its lengthy script into English, and the cost of marketing and manufacturing.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
