will future and past robot wars games come to the US

[doomguy]

people over here in america seem to really like SRW 30 so I'm hoping they release future and some past SRW games with online coop too so people can play with there friends. I remember a friend in class said video games can get boring when playing alone.

[Big Convoy]

Rights have to be re-negotiated for all series in the past games, and they're not going to add co-op to SRW since it has always been a single player game. The only multi-player that I can recall is the dice battle in OGs and OG Gaiden for the PS2. Adding co-op would involve rewriting codes of the old games and how would it even work? Will your forces be split in half and you and your friend each control each group?

[doomguy]

Originally posted by Big Convoy:

Rights have to be re-negotiated for all series in the past games, and they're not going to add co-op to SRW since it has always been a single player game. The only multi-player that I can recall is the dice battle in OGs and OG Gaiden for the PS2. Adding co-op would involve rewriting codes of the old games and how would it even work? Will your forces be split in half and you and your friend each control each group?

maybe they can re negotiate the rights.

[lPaladinl]

The OG games would be easier for them to remaster, depends on how much appeal they have.

V, X, and T should all be easy enough to bring to the West, though if you have a Nintendo Switch you can already get them in English with little hassle if you get SEA region copies (not Japanese copies). Failing getting a physical copy the Switch doesn't forbid changing your store region, though doing so requires making a new Nintendo account and having to swap between accounts depending on what games you want to play. Lastly you'd have to convert currency to whatever SEA region you choose to use, which you can simplify with buying digital gift cards from that region.

...Would be nice if they just sold them here natively, but at least it's easier to get them in English and cheaper than having to go through the usual hoops with importing. I bought them all a while back from Amazon for about $5-10 mark-up each, which ain't bad considering they were imports.

Some of these games are also on Steam already (I think only V and X?) but they're region locked, and Steam forbids changing your store region.

As for future releases, I assume Bandai is trying to make their product lines more global in general, there's been a lot more push to get their Gundam and similar, more niche titles, out here in recent years. SRW30 seemed to make a pretty good market impression on top of that. SD Gundam Cross Rays also did better than they expected, though I'm not sure it did particularly amazingly either.

[TekFan]

I'm sure Bandai will have the licenses secured before SRW TBD. Probably using what they already have..

[Boxdesu]

I'd honestly love it if VTX got an international steam release, but the reworking of the licenses is likely too much of a hassle for Bamco.

[ガンダムシリーズ Exia]

It would be cool, but considering all the different licenses that they would have to take care of to get the game released in the west SRW30 would have to sell really well to have them even remotely consider it, but here's hoping.

[Number Eight]

I always thought of it as that there was unanswered popular demand for official English translation of SRW games since PlayStation era as I remember using SRWG forum (before tapatalk, while it was based on invision iirc) as knowledge base to learn more about SRW games and mecha anime and the forum seemed quite active back then.

Now I realized however, that I never knew whether that community was primary from US and Europe or it was SEA English speaking community since if I'm not mistaken, the person behind SRWG forum was from Philippines.

Thus I kinda wonder now whether the demand for SRW games to be released in West was always high, but still left unanswered due to all sort of difficulties with the licenses or the demand was never high enough for Banpresto to even consider that option.
We never got western release of OG series beside those provided by Atlus after all.

Now I'm just not sure if SRW 30 global release happened because of Bandai Namco merger and changes to their business policy, to finally respond to that demand or the demand for the SRW games in the West actually rose up only recently, possibly after SRW games started getting official English translation for SEA region.

Honestly, I for sure would like to play some older SRW games again, this time fully understanding the dialogue. Chances they will re-release them with official English translation are almost nonexistent though.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Speaking of English Translations, I wish Bamco would hire Gideon Zhi and his team over at AGTP or the guys who translated SRW A Portable and the guys who retranslated SRW OGs for the PS2 as those folks's translations were top-notched compared to whoever Bamco hired for V/X/T and 30.

[Number Eight]

They better be, considering how long it take them to release those.
You can't really compare, project that take years of polishing the translation to something that was done in few months if not just few weeks.

That's kinda the issue with official translations. The localization team get the source material only after it's complete for the native version and they get deadline for when the translation have to be complete for the game to be released. It's projected into quality of the translation.

I'm well aware that fan translation takes this long is because that besides cracking the game's code and rewriting part of it in order to display English text correctly, it's often just one person doing the translation for the whole project in their spare time compared to the team working on official translation.
Although I have no idea how the subsidiary of Namco Bandai in charge of localization work, I believe that less time pressure allows for better quality translation and even some adjustments for the dialogue to sound more natural rather than just literal translation of the original text.

However, low quality English translation that give you basic idea of what is going on is still better than no English version at all.

For me, since my knowledge of Japanese language is just terrible even now-days and was significantly worse back then when I first got interested in playing SRW, I just gave up on trying to understand the dialogues and was only checking if I understand the choice options correctly. The result however was that since the game have so much dialogue describing the story of the game, that I was not able to fully understand, I kinda lost interest in playing the game.
I was still following the SRW series, but never attempted to get any more of those games.

What rekindled my interest in playing SRW again was English fan translation patch for OGs which I had but never finished and SRW 30.

Now I would like to get SRW V, X and T as well, but Steam release is apparently not an option otherwise it would already happen.
Switch version seems to be the best bet on how to get the game imported.
I just need to get the Nintendo Switch first. Not because of Super Mario, not because of Zelda, Metroid or Pokémon games, I will get Nintendo Switch because of Super Robot Wars.