4719 - Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth - USA Opzioni

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Europe has had a very interesting back story regarding this week's release of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. On Capcom's Community Board, when asked What the fans wanted, a frequent requests exclusive to our European friends were...

A: Get Trials and Tribulations finally released (Europe received Apollo Justice long before GS3)
B: Tighter release window with their American counterparts.

Capcom did indeed deliver on all of those... but not without unseen consequences.

According to Croik, who talked with a Capcom Rep, Europe didn't receive Trials and Tribulations in its traditional 3 month wait because of release conflicts. Compared to other Capcom titles, the Ace Attorney fan-base is significantly smaller. I don't remember what titles were being released at the time, but I know that TnT wouldn't stand a chance on the market if it got released at the same time as, say Street Fighter or Lost Planet. Word of Mouth is 'Very' important to the life of the Ace Attorney saga, as evidenced by the first title's surprise persistence of sales in our Interview with Sven three years ago. If Capcom's fan base is chatting about its big titles then the smaller series don't stand a chance. This is also why the Ace Attorney series often see their releases in the relatively early post holiday season.

Anyways, it would take over a year after the American release of Trials and Tribulations before the PAL region finally got its copy. Sales were very disappointing for an accumulation of many reasons.

* Buzz

With the advent of the internet, what's buzzing in America, is the topic of European websites, and the reverse is also true. With America having it's title at least a year in advance, a lot of Europe's excitement when the release finally hit had died. It just wasn't as exciting getting a game that was last year's news, regardless if they never got it in the first place.

* Importing

With the incredibly long wait, and Europe's famously multilingual populous, a lot of fans decided to import either the Japanese version with both Japanese and English, or the American version with a more polished English translation for the region free Nintendo DS. While this made a ton of sense for fans who weren't sure their game was even going to be release in their home nation. It had the back firing side effect that people who bought the game in America, wouldn't turn around and also buy the title in Europe. Thus what might've been European sales figures turned into American sales figures.

What does Capcom see in response? Europe doesn't like Ace Attorney like America does. Yes, they obviously know that European imports are a factor in American sales, Sven said as much. However, there's nothing that tells them that those same Europeans won't just import the next title too.

Yes, some fans do turn around and purchase both the import and their native version, and we salute you a thousand times, but they're in the minority.

To make an example of myself, my copy of Justice for All is the Japanese version. I never did buy an American copy. In consequence, my purchase shows up in Japanese sales figures and doesn't help the states.

* Piracy

This is the big one, and the subject of today's article. 300 retail copies is a dismal amount. I hardly believe the profit could cover the costs marketing and production, never mind a quality localization. With everyone playing the game on their flash carts and emulators the hard working people at Capcom don't get any credit for their hard work bring the game to you and doing a quality job translating it.

Pirates, thanks for your years of cheating your way into a quality product so all of Europe gets to suffer for the current release.


With all those factors in place at once, Trials and Tribulation's sales were beyond bad in Europe. Capcom saw those numbers and somewhat justifiably decided that if the series were to remain profitable in Europe then they can't bother to waste time and money translating if all of Europe is just going to play the game in English anyways. With the additional localizations out of the way, Capcom was able to fulfill Europe's other popular request for the series and bring the release window with America down from what was generally months, to mere days.

In short, Capcom did what the Ace Attorney Fan market was doing anyways. Before Europe was importing from the States. Capcom's now making that stage simpler and bring your the import themselves.

So please Europe. Buy AAI locally. Show Capcom that you all genuinely love the series, and that TnT's bad sales were due to poor release timing.