Quote: "Anyways, whats the point of translating all games into Spanish and suddenly change the language? because all Half life games are in spanish from the beginning. Even, why they only excluded Italian and Spanish? Why not German or French?"
No they're not.
Half-Life Series is always done in English, then localised.
We here in the UK generally have to wait for bloody French, German, Spanish and/or Italian localisations before a game is released here.
So we end up having to wait the 6-8months behind an American release simply because of this fact. It is beyond irritating, given we speak and read English; plus our PAL-60 works almost identical to NTSC, which tbh for this current generation of consoles (atleast 360 and PS3) it's literally a case of compiling with the localisations; and the console sorts out the display aspects.
So really there is absolutely no reason we shouldn't get releases at the same time on the same damn media, all they'd need is for it to pass a Pan-European ratings board (like PEGI).
Quote: "No Raven, I mean Spain market (I meant more customers) its the bigger behind USA and Japan, we invert more money buying games than any other European country and I don´t Invented it, these are facts,if you don´t believe me I can show news on newspapers."
I would like to see these newpaper reports,
especially given things like this:
http://www.vgchartz.com/
http://kotaku.com/gaming/sales-charts/european-sales-charts-311194.php
I can't find direct numbers or market shares.. however the top-10 sold games in each Britian, Germany and Spain; quite frankly show a very different story.
Given we've had very low PS3 penetration here in Europe, and several of the games on the spanish top-10 including the 2nd biggest selling game are PS3 versions.
Where-as we've had quite substancial Wii, 360 and PS2 sales.
Britian only shows a single PS3 game in it's top-10 and very low on the charts.
This suggests to me, especially combined with the sale information for each of the game sold in "other" from VGCharts that Britian seems to have a much larger game purchasing than Spain or Germany
To me this makes sense given we have some of the most lax rules on the games we can sell, and the highest console sales in Europe. It's just a bigger potencial market.
Spanish however on the whole, over English and Japanese probably is the 3rd largest market.. that said I'd like to see how they stack up against each other exactly. I might look a little later more deeply to find the figures, but I'm fairly sure that spanish just doesn't make financial sense to pander too from the get go.
I mean, it's a couple of months and more money to provide localisation to a market that for the most part actually speaks and understand english as a second language anyway.
