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At BitSummit 2014, ZUN Announced Intention to Publish Touhou Overseas
Keine Kamishirasawa:
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HyperGumba:
Broken link by any chance?
NekoNekoRex:
oh wow, that's really interesting. What are the chances he'll also make a new touhou game this year, then?
I'm guessing he'll be setting up some work with translators from the fandom to help make international release possible as well. Perhaps touhou wiki will be able to have a hand in official release of a touhou game overseas? That'd be like a dream come true from us westerners.
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: HyperGumba on March 14, 2014, 01:45:07 PM ---Broken link by any chance?
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Link fixed.
Now, on to ZUN.
--- Quote from: ZUN ---?I?ve come here to say this. In the end, even I will have to sell my games to the world. I, too, want to make friends with the world.?
?Instead of putting all my games on sale, I will test it starting by selling some new game overseas.?
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Are you ready for Call Of Duty: Gensokyo Ops?
Seriously, though, I think this was just a matter of time. After getting to see, firsthand, just a fraction of the WTC, I think ZUN has come to realize that the effort required in online distribution is vastly outweighed by the benefits. That said, I know he wants to be able to maintain his grassroots, cottage industry business model, so to me it makes sense that he would start by taking a tentative step with new games first, then seeing how bringing in older workers goes. Pretty exciting stuff.
HyperGumba:
I have to say, having followed the news in the past, about ZUN at AWA and everything, I am not /too/ surprised, but seeing this taking this kind of development is absolutely fantastic. I doubt we will get to see anything concrete in terms of 'new game' anytime soon, probably by the end of the year... unless ZUN plans to publish whatever he has in the works for May to the Western audiences as well. Wouldn't a spin-off game be a good game to start experiments with on a new sales platform, instead of fiddling around with the main series before knowing it will work out somehow?