Why this game WON’T be released worldwide

[sportsfan002]

Look, I know you all want to be optimistic, but it won’t happen. The Central League (CL) of the NPB is very Japan-centric, and really don’t care about what foreigners (or even some Japanese people) want, even if it’s to engage with their baseball product.

Those of us in the community for Power Pros are all too familiar with this. Even if we somehow managed a large petition with tens of thousands of people, there’s nothing that can be done. And no, Konami won’t release an unlicensed baseball game in the west just because a couple hundred people think it’d be a good business decision and say that they would buy it.

If you own a PS5, import it from Japan. If you don’t, make a Japanese steam account and buy the game. I’m sorry, but no matter how much you beg and plead, it won’t happen.

[meganinja]

It's not due CL, CL TEAMS has only ownership of TV rights, people in power pros community confuses it with the stupid TV rights and assume it's the same for everyone else

Image and stadium rights are league-wide and was given in consensus to Konami, there has nothing CL can do after they accepted and signed contract

IT IS Konami fault, the game will be sold for lot of regions in Asia, not just Japan, but also Korea, Taiwan and even SEA (Southeast) region where baseball isn't that much popular, Konami assume that sell to those areas is profitable and offset the costs.

The problem relies that they think that, since it dont have a MLB license, people outsidr asia won't buy it and is not worth to translate it to English let alone sell in Japanese to overseas

They will only undestand if ENOUGH people make noise, and I mean LOT OF PEOPLE not the small community of 3k max Power Pros players, it needs AT LEAST 10k or more to them see and think "maybe we can win money even with the spending needed"

[sportsfan002]

CL teams are part of the NPB, so they are part of the group that does licensing. They can block the game releasing in the west if they feel like it.

As I've mentioned in the pawapuro discord server, it costs literally nothing to release steam games region-free. This cannot be a "Konami doesn't want to release this worldwide" situation in that case.

[Jay Smizzle]

I would buy it

[sportsfan002]

Originally posted by Jay Smizzle:

I would buy it

Yeah, and so would I. But again, that won't change the opinions of the NPB.

[ankimo]

Originally posted by meganinja:

IT IS Konami fault, the game will be sold for lot of regions in Asia, not just Japan, but also Korea, Taiwan and even SEA (Southeast) region where baseball isn't that much popular, Konami assume that sell to those areas is profitable and offset the costs.

impliying selling in these region and calling it baseball isn't that much popular is a real stretch

sure its not as big as Football, but many of us enjoy NPB too. But again not hammering down on your opinion, the game should at least accessible elsewhere too. I would imagine its strictly licensing issue and also customer support as they need to support various language especially when it get released in US and/or EU.

I do want English too, but the game have tons of live event and anything it will be hard for them to support it to various region that might yield the least sales. I'll stick with accessible platform if I don't have other choice.

[meganinja]

Originally posted by ankimo:

Originally posted by meganinja:

IT IS Konami fault, the game will be sold for lot of regions in Asia, not just Japan, but also Korea, Taiwan and even SEA (Southeast) region where baseball isn't that much popular, Konami assume that sell to those areas is profitable and offset the costs.

the game should at least accessible elsewhere too. I would imagine its strictly licensing issue and also customer support as they need to support various language especially when it get released in US and/or EU.

I do want English too, but the game have tons of live event and anything it will be hard for them to support it to various region that might yield the least sales. I'll stick with accessible platform if I don't have other choice.

I saw they will do some language translates but I am not sure will be english

[ankimo]

Originally posted by meganinja:

I saw they will do some language translates but I am not sure will be english

based on the steamDB, they seem to already localized their store page name to Korea and Traditional Chinese.

Official Konami Asia SNS also promote Pawapuro in Taiwan as part of the campaign to sell the game officially there.