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Gears of War 2 Readies Japan Release
Microsoft and Epic games are preparing to officially launch a localized version of Gears Of War 2 across Japan.
A Microsoft spokesperson told Edge late in October that the game wouldn't be released in the country “indefinitely”, just hours before Microsoft hurriedly retracted its statement and claimed there was no announcement to be made. Now the game appears set for an official launch some time in 2009, according to a Dengeki report.
Details barely go beyond the announcement that the game will launch; no specific date, prices or SKU variations were announced, and Microsoft's Japan arm didn't clarify whether any of the game's content would be edited.
The original Gears of War was one of the first titles to crack the Japanese software charts during a time when the 360 console was selling at its slowest. The game sold 33,212 copies in Japan in its first week and entered the software charts at number seven. Epic recently announced that the game's successor had sold over 3 million copies internationally.
Japan's official launch of Gears 2 won't mark the first time the title has arrived on the shelves of the nation's retailers; wholesale volumes of import copies were shipped shortly after the game launched.
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What's the point? Most gamers in Japan don't identify with Microsoft's console. It's not a case of vertigo as some people try to point out, it's a simple lack of interest in shooting games. Sure the 360 has a few RPGs but many of them fail to sell well as a great many Japanese gamers associate with Sony's PS3 as the next bastion of HD RPGaming.
I thought it had been already released.. good to know that not yet.
the measure of success in Japan is whether or not I'll be able to find MarcusxDom doujinshi
Prediction:
Gears of War 2 will sell over 100,000 copies in Japan and join the ranks of all the successful RPGs in Japan such as Blue Dragon, Tales of Vesperia, Lost Odyssey, and Infinite Undiscovery.