Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25809774-20150711192452/@comment-1419424-20150713163624

Digimon is far more popular in the west than God Eater is, though. We've had ONE GE-related release in the West, and that is GEB. Meanwhile, Digimon has been a mainstay of my generation's childhood since the late 90s, with SIX seasons of the anime (and Tri coming later this year), I think six movies, the entire Digimon World video game franchise as well as the Digimon Data Squad games. Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth got a localization based on a petition, sure, but that's because its cultural permeation over here is IMMENSE.

And we've already been over the matter of sales. No matter how many people bow and beg for Rage Burst's release over here, the sales numbers for GEB have told Bamco that it would be suicide to release any further GE games over here. Remember what happened with Valkyria Chronicles 3? Tens of thousands of western fans BEGGED Sega for a western release, but sales numbers for VC2 told them that, objectively, the fan demand for VC3 would be too small to risk localization.