Shin Megami Tensei IV Dated for 30th October in Europe

If it is English only why did it take so long to make it over here.

^ If I had to bet on something, I'd say licensing issues.

Aaah, finally. The wait has been long, can't wait to play it

Finally a date.

@Jazzer94 I would have to agree with you. So that story about the french translation was just a bunch of BS then.

Inb4 delay to 2018.

Cool. They should release some eShop games like Shovel Knight on EU like this with localization to come later but only accessible on Wii U consoles that are set to English.

@Jazzer94 My best bet would be ATLUSs usual problems:
-Licensing
-Money
-Publisher
Their major game output isnt big enough to get enough cash in to support their general game output :/
Basically, its the same story as with Koei. Nishe games with a dedicated fanbase, but not enough cash to localize and ship them over.
They struggle with pretty much every release and yet, they still try their best to keep their prices fair most of the time.

Great. I will buy this game for sure.

Enjoy, Europe. Beware the dreadful map.

This game is great!

@Jazzer94, because Atlus knows how much we like waiting years for their games to be localised.

I don't buy the whole 'Atlus is trying their best to localise stuff and have no money and stuffs' argument. Otherwise they wouldn't have intentionally region locked Persona 4 Arena on the PS3 (which is a region free console, for those who aren't aware) to prevent us getting it until they could be bothered to ship it over here.

This is just another example of laziness. If they're not even supporting other European languages outside of English, it can't take that long to ship the American game over here and slap an EU rating on it. We're not even getting a physical copy!

eshop booooo hissss no box i wish the 3DS was multi region could have got the american copy of the game.

Wait! What happened to our Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem?

@mariovslink62 e3 2015 is the earliest I expect to hear anything else about it

Dang we had this one for over a year now in the states. It's good, really good RPG. It's number 2 on my list for best RPGs on the 3ds.

You Europeans are in for a treat... It's still my favorite JRPG on the 3DS if not of all time.... Yes, even better than Fire Emblem, IMO

@mariovslink62 Intelligent Systems was asked about this project at E3 2014 and they stated it's still on schedule..... I don't think Atlus would ever put FExSMT on the back burner, way too much Nintendo money being tossed their way from Kyoto, regardless of it sales potential (unfortunately Atlus games don't sell very well usually)

It should look jaw dropping on Wii U, it's by far my most anticipated game on the console, tied with Zelda Wii U.

Get this game guys! You will not be disappointed . its my favorite 3ds title.

@BensonUii I don't see why people shouldn't be able to buy it if they want from other countries. (As long as they are clear whether the translation is coming or not).

I sunk an insane amount of time into this game. Great fun, need to do another playthrough one day!

Really sad to see it took so long to come to you guys. I hope it was worth the wait.

@Jazzer94 Rating certification. To release a game for a Nintendo console for the Euro region, you have to get the game certified with ALL the rating boards covered by the PAL region. PEGI covers a good portion of Europe, but not all, as Russia, UK, Germany, Australia all have their own, each with their own list of allowed content that is banned in Amerikastan, and vice versa (for example, Germany has way stricter control in regard of graphic violence, but significantly looser restrictions on nudity, while Russia has restrictions (as in, steeper age ratings) for depictions of suicide and smoking)).

Hence the oddly censored EU release of Fire Emblem Awakening's DLCs, for example, as Nintendo didn't want to give the game a higher rating.

@Noelemahc Doesn't take 18+ months to do that otherwise we'd never get a game same or near the same time as the US.

@Jazzer94 The timeline is actually closer to what Shovel Knight has experienced: two to three months, and that's WITH doing the translations too.

It's just that Atlus is notoriously lenient in terms of getting its games published in Europe, preferring to let side publishers handle this as much as possible (hence Ghostlight being responsible for many of the SMT/Persona releases for our region in the past).

@Noelemahc I know how long it takes that is my point it has been 18+ months since the US release and around the same time had already been confirmed to be coming to the EU, they've not even bothered to translate it to boot making the overdue delay seem completely unnecessary.