Lonely Hunter
01-07-2011, 07:11 PM
موقع siliconera عمل مقابله شيقه مع Haru Akenga رئيس NIS America الفرع الامريكي للفريق الياباني Nippon Ichi و اللي يقوم أيضا بنشر العاب بعض الفرق اليابانيه الصغيره مثل Gust بأمريكا و من خلال هالمقابله طلعت معلومات شيقه للي مهتمين للشركه و توضحت امور كثيره
http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dis41_thumb.jpg
المصدر:
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/06/30/our-fan-powered-interview-with-nis-americas-president-part-1/
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Judging by the reader questions and requests on Siliconera, people are asking for remakes, perhaps remastered versions of NIS games.
Haru Akenga, President: Our games use dot graphics and are impossible to remake in HD. We would need to redraw the graphics again. In that case, it is not easy work to do HD remakes. We’re going to think about other ways to reproduce our titles.
Perhaps, you can work on this idea for [PlayStation] Vita?
Hmm… good point. Actually, we already announced there are some titles in development for Vita. This news was released in Japan.
http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/nisint2_thumb.jpg (http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=141021%7C1)
While it has been announced NIS America would bring Imageepoch titles overseas, we haven’t seen any games yet. I was wondering if you could clarify what’s going on between the two companies.
They are only making PSP titles [right now] and it is tough to sell PSP titles in the U.S. market. Their titles are really good so we want to push titles and sell more of them, but in that case we have to wait until they develop games for other formats.
NIS America has a very strong relationship with Gust. We heard from some of the fans that the delay between Japanese and North American releases are too long. Do you think it’s possible to release titles, like the core Atelier games, a little bit faster?
Actually, I have a question for you? We’re going to release the next game in the Atelier series, Totori, in the fall. If we released the next one in March, don’t you think it would be too soon?
http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/gust1_thumb.png (http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=141021%7C2)
Wow… now I’m on the spot! Now I know how it feels to do these interviews!
This is one of our problems. We released the first title in September, so that’s why the next one should be expected around the same time for users. Maybe one title would be released a year.
Our second problem is Gust has less than fifteen employees. All of their employees are working on another title in the series for Japan. In that case, they always release their new titles in June in Japan. March, April, and May is crunch time and that’s why we can’t work on localization. That’s a problem because the Atelier series has such a large amount of text. We need to take at least three or four months to translate all of it. Once we get a text file from them after they make a master disc, it takes about four months to get the translation done. At that time Gust is getting busier and busier on the new title, which is why they stop doing localization or work other than the next new title. We have a choice to ask another company to localize it, but basically they don’t want to give users a version they didn’t fully develop.
If you really think we should release the Atelier series earlier, we will think about it.
So about Disgaea 4 for Xbox 360… I know NIS America has been an approved Xbox 360 developer for so long one of these days you’re going to bring an Xbox 360 game to the market. And Disgaea 4, being one of the bigger NIS titles…
[Laughs.] We always ask the developers [at Nippon Ichi] to develop an Xbox 360 version. Especially with Disgaea 4, you know about the 50,000 minimum guarantee Microsoft has?
Yes, I’m aware of that.
Out of all our core titles, maybe Disgaea 4 is the only title that can reach more that 50,000 units for Xbox 360. That’s why Disgaea 4 is a big chance for us to jump into Xbox 360. I asked them to make an Xbox 360 version all the time last year.
So, it’s not going to happen?
The headquarters need more staff. They have only 80 employees and there is no Xbox 360 market in Japan. The priority is always there. NIS America will continue to ask them to develop for Xbox 360, but they have to make a decision to do so. It’s a complicated market. Actually, they still want to make PSP titles.
For the local market in Japan, the PSP is quite popular.
If they have time to develop for Xbox 360, they would rather use the time to develop titles for PSP. That’s the situation.
In America, it’s difficult to be a PSP publisher and Nippon Ichi has been a very strong supporter on the system. Have you considered releasing PSP games for PS3 untouched, even with the same dot-graphics?
Sony would not approve that.
What if you put two games on one Blu-ray? You could have ClaDun: This is an RPG with ClaDun 2 or Z.H.P. with another title. Or put all three on the same disc and have a triple pack?
We thought about bringing PSP titles for PS3 for the US market, but it is tough to do. Last year, we released Z.H.P.[: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman] for PSP. Before that we tried to port PSP [games] to PS3. We wanted to release Z.H.P. on PS3 in the United States. Because Sony has really high standards for quality assurance we tried to improve the graphics to match a PS3 standard from the PSP title. We tried to do so and tried to convince Sony, but unfortunately our graphics were not up to par.
If it was straight localization we could have released the title in summer of last year, but because we tried that’s why both titles were held until winter last year. We tried hard.
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الخلاصه:
* لايستطيعون عمل نسخ remaster HD لالعابهم بسبب نوعية رسومات العابهم السابقه على البلي2 و بالتالي عليهم ان يعملوا ريميك لهم اذا ارادوا نقلها للبلي3 و لكن الفيتا قد يكون حل مثالي لهذه المشكله .
* لايريدون نشر العاب Imageepoch خارج اليابان لانها العاب psp و هو جهاز ميت خارجه فبالتالي سينتظرون ان يعملوا على العاب على اجهزه اخرى كي ينشروها
* سبب تأخر نشر سلسلة Atelier بالخارج بسبب ان Gust يوجد بها اقل من 15 موظف فقط (ردائة الجرافكس توضح الان لالعابهم السابقه) و لترجمه اللعبه تستغرق هذه العمليه 4 شهور بسبب كمية النصوص الموجوده و سبب اخر ان نيسا لاتريد ان تصدر اللعبه(توتوري) في وقت قريب بعدرورونا اللتي صدرت سبتمبر الماضي لذلك ستصدرها في نفس الوقت من هذا العام كي يكون هناك فارق زمني مناسب بينهم (موريري يعني السنه القادمه نفس الوقت)
* Nippon Ichi تحتوي على 80 موظف
* سبب عدم تطويرهم لل360 هو ان ميكروسوفت تلزمهم ان اي لعبه منهم يجب ان تبيع على الاقل 50 الف نسخه و من بين كل العاب نيسا ديسجايا 4 هي الوحيده اللي ممكن توصل لهذا الرقم بسبب ردائة اداء الجهاز في اليابان سوقهم الرئيسي لذلك هم يفضلون بدل ان يضيعوا مواردهم على نسخة ال360 هم يفضلون ان يعملوا على العاب جديده للpsp ذا الشعبيه الكبيره في اليابان
* لايستطيعون ان يعملوا نسخ psp remaster للps3 لنفس المشكلة السابقه فسوني رفضت ان يضعوا العابهم على البلي3 لانها لم تتوافق مع معايير الجوده لسوني (يقصد هني سوء مظهرها لو وضعوها على البلي3)
http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dis41_thumb.jpg
المصدر:
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/06/30/our-fan-powered-interview-with-nis-americas-president-part-1/
===
Judging by the reader questions and requests on Siliconera, people are asking for remakes, perhaps remastered versions of NIS games.
Haru Akenga, President: Our games use dot graphics and are impossible to remake in HD. We would need to redraw the graphics again. In that case, it is not easy work to do HD remakes. We’re going to think about other ways to reproduce our titles.
Perhaps, you can work on this idea for [PlayStation] Vita?
Hmm… good point. Actually, we already announced there are some titles in development for Vita. This news was released in Japan.
http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/nisint2_thumb.jpg (http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=141021%7C1)
While it has been announced NIS America would bring Imageepoch titles overseas, we haven’t seen any games yet. I was wondering if you could clarify what’s going on between the two companies.
They are only making PSP titles [right now] and it is tough to sell PSP titles in the U.S. market. Their titles are really good so we want to push titles and sell more of them, but in that case we have to wait until they develop games for other formats.
NIS America has a very strong relationship with Gust. We heard from some of the fans that the delay between Japanese and North American releases are too long. Do you think it’s possible to release titles, like the core Atelier games, a little bit faster?
Actually, I have a question for you? We’re going to release the next game in the Atelier series, Totori, in the fall. If we released the next one in March, don’t you think it would be too soon?
http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/gust1_thumb.png (http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=141021%7C2)
Wow… now I’m on the spot! Now I know how it feels to do these interviews!
This is one of our problems. We released the first title in September, so that’s why the next one should be expected around the same time for users. Maybe one title would be released a year.
Our second problem is Gust has less than fifteen employees. All of their employees are working on another title in the series for Japan. In that case, they always release their new titles in June in Japan. March, April, and May is crunch time and that’s why we can’t work on localization. That’s a problem because the Atelier series has such a large amount of text. We need to take at least three or four months to translate all of it. Once we get a text file from them after they make a master disc, it takes about four months to get the translation done. At that time Gust is getting busier and busier on the new title, which is why they stop doing localization or work other than the next new title. We have a choice to ask another company to localize it, but basically they don’t want to give users a version they didn’t fully develop.
If you really think we should release the Atelier series earlier, we will think about it.
So about Disgaea 4 for Xbox 360… I know NIS America has been an approved Xbox 360 developer for so long one of these days you’re going to bring an Xbox 360 game to the market. And Disgaea 4, being one of the bigger NIS titles…
[Laughs.] We always ask the developers [at Nippon Ichi] to develop an Xbox 360 version. Especially with Disgaea 4, you know about the 50,000 minimum guarantee Microsoft has?
Yes, I’m aware of that.
Out of all our core titles, maybe Disgaea 4 is the only title that can reach more that 50,000 units for Xbox 360. That’s why Disgaea 4 is a big chance for us to jump into Xbox 360. I asked them to make an Xbox 360 version all the time last year.
So, it’s not going to happen?
The headquarters need more staff. They have only 80 employees and there is no Xbox 360 market in Japan. The priority is always there. NIS America will continue to ask them to develop for Xbox 360, but they have to make a decision to do so. It’s a complicated market. Actually, they still want to make PSP titles.
For the local market in Japan, the PSP is quite popular.
If they have time to develop for Xbox 360, they would rather use the time to develop titles for PSP. That’s the situation.
In America, it’s difficult to be a PSP publisher and Nippon Ichi has been a very strong supporter on the system. Have you considered releasing PSP games for PS3 untouched, even with the same dot-graphics?
Sony would not approve that.
What if you put two games on one Blu-ray? You could have ClaDun: This is an RPG with ClaDun 2 or Z.H.P. with another title. Or put all three on the same disc and have a triple pack?
We thought about bringing PSP titles for PS3 for the US market, but it is tough to do. Last year, we released Z.H.P.[: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman] for PSP. Before that we tried to port PSP [games] to PS3. We wanted to release Z.H.P. on PS3 in the United States. Because Sony has really high standards for quality assurance we tried to improve the graphics to match a PS3 standard from the PSP title. We tried to do so and tried to convince Sony, but unfortunately our graphics were not up to par.
If it was straight localization we could have released the title in summer of last year, but because we tried that’s why both titles were held until winter last year. We tried hard.
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الخلاصه:
* لايستطيعون عمل نسخ remaster HD لالعابهم بسبب نوعية رسومات العابهم السابقه على البلي2 و بالتالي عليهم ان يعملوا ريميك لهم اذا ارادوا نقلها للبلي3 و لكن الفيتا قد يكون حل مثالي لهذه المشكله .
* لايريدون نشر العاب Imageepoch خارج اليابان لانها العاب psp و هو جهاز ميت خارجه فبالتالي سينتظرون ان يعملوا على العاب على اجهزه اخرى كي ينشروها
* سبب تأخر نشر سلسلة Atelier بالخارج بسبب ان Gust يوجد بها اقل من 15 موظف فقط (ردائة الجرافكس توضح الان لالعابهم السابقه) و لترجمه اللعبه تستغرق هذه العمليه 4 شهور بسبب كمية النصوص الموجوده و سبب اخر ان نيسا لاتريد ان تصدر اللعبه(توتوري) في وقت قريب بعدرورونا اللتي صدرت سبتمبر الماضي لذلك ستصدرها في نفس الوقت من هذا العام كي يكون هناك فارق زمني مناسب بينهم (موريري يعني السنه القادمه نفس الوقت)
* Nippon Ichi تحتوي على 80 موظف
* سبب عدم تطويرهم لل360 هو ان ميكروسوفت تلزمهم ان اي لعبه منهم يجب ان تبيع على الاقل 50 الف نسخه و من بين كل العاب نيسا ديسجايا 4 هي الوحيده اللي ممكن توصل لهذا الرقم بسبب ردائة اداء الجهاز في اليابان سوقهم الرئيسي لذلك هم يفضلون بدل ان يضيعوا مواردهم على نسخة ال360 هم يفضلون ان يعملوا على العاب جديده للpsp ذا الشعبيه الكبيره في اليابان
* لايستطيعون ان يعملوا نسخ psp remaster للps3 لنفس المشكلة السابقه فسوني رفضت ان يضعوا العابهم على البلي3 لانها لم تتوافق مع معايير الجوده لسوني (يقصد هني سوء مظهرها لو وضعوها على البلي3)