Shin Megami Tensei IV's European Release Pushed Back to "Late October"

Disappointing but I'm sure they'd have avoided it if they could. Really excited to finally play this.

Ah well, there's already enough fun to be had this month with 3 high-profile releases. October is fine for me.

I admit it, I laughed.

Worst possible month to release this as now for me this goes to the back of the pile as before I would have got it for my b-day but Smash, Bayo 1+2 and Freedom Wars all come before this now honestly I don't even want to give Atlus my money at this point.

@Jazzer94 Don't forget Hyrule Warriors and Fantasy Life. They can release it in 2015, we will be too busy in october!

Will I be able to get this in New Zealand's eShop?

@andreoni79 Fantasy Life is out September 26 in the EU and Hyrule Warriors is 19 September .

Looks like I'm not getting this then, October is too packed already: Smash 3DS, Bayonetta 1+2 and Kirby Triple Deluxe (don't own it yet).

@Jazzer94 I know, but we'll still be playing them in october, right?

Oh well, as long as its still on the plae, im perfectly fine with waiting another month or two
After all this time we already waited, this wont even matter anymore.
Also, a fixed issue is a non issue. Every other dev would have probably said "well, deadline, they have to deal with it"

Atlus is such a pathetic company. It's not like SMT4 is the first game that they try to pull this bs with. They have in the past already showed that they do not care about the European market at all.

I really hope that the Sammy-Sega buying Atlus will change things. Sega will hopefully start to fix Atlus issues in Europe so that Europeans get the future game releases same time as North America.

It's really unbelievable that they don't even care to release the game on a cartridge and in a box to the brick & mortar shops and still even just as a digital copy it still takes 15 months to get it to Europe after the American release?

The low price doesn't help, they have completely destroyed their credibility and also the sales of SMT4 in Europe with this circus. Most of the interested gamers and fans have already stopped caring and will instead go for other games that come out during October.

Of course it could be blamed that the region lock is to fault here and I bet Atlus hopes that people will instead blame the 3DS region lock. I mean the region lock was dead idea already when it was born with DSi. But this is just incredibly pathetic for a company to mess up the release of their own game.

This is like watching Nicalis not release games (Ikachan etc.) in Europe, except in a bigger scale since Atlus games are tons more famous than what Nicalis has put out.

@andreoni79 I'll definitely be playing Fantasy Life but might have to wait for Christmas to get HW as I want Smash, Freedom Wars and Bayo straightaway.

Hardly surprising. The circus continues. "We encountered a few last-minute issues specific to the EU version, and we have to fix them." Does anybody know what these last-minute issues could be?

Its only 20 euros?! Woah I'll buy another copy for my sis.

One more month is not a big deal, but only releasing the game as a download absolutely stinks. It's like they believe it won't sell well in Europe so they won't bother creating retail copies.

I'm a bit disappointed because I think I'm gonna buy it, but at least this month I'll have Code Of Princess to keep me busy

I'm confused, what is the "European version" anyways?
I though it was not to be localised? Are there any changes made to the game at all? Something due to censorships laws or licensing or anything like that?
I assumed they would basically just put the U.S. version on the various EU e-shops ...

@Kolzig Persona, that is all.

I'm looking forward to this. A month's delay isn't much in the long scheme of things and if it irons out any bugs then it can only be a good thing. Great price, too.

Seriously.... After waiting patiently for this long, I've lost it with this game. John Hardin you can stick ya SMTlV... May get purchased from me, if there is some kind of promotion on it over the next few years.

People wait untill there is a real discount on this before purchasing. This has been on sale so many times on the US eshop, since it's release.

Well that sucks. While I am angry about the delay I thought I would have had much time to play it since I just got Persona 4 golden. This gives me more time to finish the game (Though I have played the ps2 version so many times) before the game is released.

@Kolzig You make it sound like Sega are some kind of Saint. Sega have never been great at localising games for the European market even back in the console days.

Better to delay it than release a broken game.

@FragRed There you are correct. The old Sega was horrible in Europe neglecting all the other countries where they did not have an official presence like Nordic countries. Actually quite a lot similar how Nintendo is doing now, terrible job. Brio toy company used to be the supplier in Finland bringing Sega consoles to Finland.

I am hoping that with Sammy Sega the situation is different.

This is incredibly stupid. To my knowledge, the game isn't being translated into other European languages and it's a digital only release, hence, it is identical to the US game. I'm not a game dev, but how on earth can there be problems 'specific to the European version' when the game is unchanged from how it was released in the US?

Atlus have effectively sat on the game for well over a year doing absolutely nothing. It saddens me that Atlus can be so incompetent at localising games. I love SMT so much that I don't think I could bring myself to boycott the game, but Atlus are certainly making it hard for me to sustain a love for the games and the company.

@AndymanMessiah Devil Survivor Overclocked shipped in the EU with several game-breaking bugs (literally, GAME BREAKING, the game would randomly crash in the Demon Auction or if you used certain skills during battles) that were not present in any other releases, AND retaining any and all bugs of the NA release (like untranslated text, undubbed Japanese speech, etc).

@Noelemahc @Blaze - I agree with you both. I'm putting it down to either BS or a marketing reason being a Halloween release, which is no coincidence. Finding it hard to boycott the game but everyone has a breaking limit and mine has been reached. This all started way before the problems with this EU release with game breaking bugs in the first game.

utterly pathetic. What game breaking error have they encountered that wasn't in the US version?
Allthey have to do is change the region from the Rom. Really,what did they do in this whole time?

I did not find this game fun. It's so tedious with the combining of demons & the atrociously confusing overworld map & the menu driven exploration of like towns & also I recommend playing on the easiest level for pure Western RPG players.

Hmmm....

"We encountered a few last-minute issues specific to the EU version"

Yeah, they looked at a map and found out that Europe actually exists. That's their last minute issue.

@Kolzig Nicalis I can understand because they are a relatively small American publisher, but Atlus has connections in Europe. I don't know what their deal is

I live in NA but just got around to picking this up last week and it is insanely addicting. I would encourage you patient Europeans not to give up on this game despite the delays- it is one of the best titles I own for the 3DS and I would say I'm maybe 15% through all of the content It is perfect for October as well- being creepy as hell and all... after this and Conception II I am really starting to love Atlus.

Geez, this game has been in my system for hundreds of hours.. I feel really sorry for you guys. However, it's totally worth it!

@snoox I take it this was your first SMT game then... If you've played SMT or Persona then you can figure it out really quick. and the demon combinations are easy for me... Then again, I've been playing these games for years..