PS3 VN's in English?

[douggle]

I know this is probably a crapshoot but I will ask anyways, are there any English VN's for the ps3?

[Okami]

Yea there are a few official ones, true moustly the ones with a lot of gameplay.

 

Example from top of my head BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma.

[Nosebleed]

Hakuoki was recently released on PS3, it's an Otome game though but I heard it's very good if you're into Otome.

 

 But you're right there are barely any: http://vndb.org/r?q=&fil=type-complete.lang-en.plat-ps3

[Okami]

Hakuoki was recently released on PS3, it's an Otome game though but I heard it's very good if you're into Otome.

 

 But you're right there are barely any: http://vndb.org/r?q=&fil=type-complete.lang-en.plat-ps3

 

I think that there is a prety good reason for it. No fan TL group is gona pick a VN that dosen't have means to be played on PC as western VN fanbase is prety much all about PC. Moustly becouse more people own a PC then specific console and as VN fanbase is pretty small allredy giving a title that is restricted to only small part of that fanbase is something that none fan TL group want to doo, especially when there are so many great VNs for PC  and consoles with existing emulators too.

 

Proof: There is none fan translated VN that can't be played on PC.

 

Ones PS3 emu is more stable there are probably gona be more of them. (The only real PS3 emu can only run small "homemade" apps, for now.)

[Nosebleed]

Oh I'm sure that's the reason why Fan TLs don't pick PS3 novels.

That and the amount of time and effort it'd take to hack is probably not worth it.

 

However I do believe there's so much potential for localization yet they're still not popular in consoles in the west aside from mobile platforms.

That's what's kind of a shame.

 

Just imagine the Date A Live vn localized for PS3 or Robotics;Notes.

[Okami]

Oh I'm sure that's the reason why Fan TLs don't pick PS3 novels.

That and the amount of time and effort it'd take to hack is probably not worth it.

 

However I do believe there's so much potential for localization yet they're still not popular in consoles in the west aside from mobile platforms.

That's what's kind of a shame.

 

Just imagine the Date A Live vn localized for PS3 or Robotics;Notes.

 

Wow, you a mind reader?

 

Robotic;notes was my favorite of ";" series and the one I would love to read the most of them because of most developed romance and most likeable characters in a series and especially because I am dieing to see/read Kona's route who is one of my favorite characters.

 

I also loved Date a Live Anime and thought that VN of it would be perfect, one of the reasons because I loved all heroines in it.

 

That said I wouldn't really be able to read them even if they did get a translation as I have no PS3 nor can I afford to buy it.

 

 

Here if you want to fallow rpcs3 (PS3 emu) updates.

 

And here's there official forum you will find more detail info there, that is if you can undestand what is it tallked there.

 

Edit: I just checked it myself after a long time and now they seem to be able to run a faw week comercial games too, (Just run not really play true, but that's still a decent progress)

[FruitsPunchSamurai]

X blaze code embryo comes out on the 24th (I think?) for PS3 and vita so look out for that.

[Narcosis]

BlazBlue can hardly be called a real vn. It's just a fighting game with "elaborate" storyline that takes the narrative in a form well known from vn's (textbox + character sprites + cg). It's not a vn per se and shouldn't be ever place on vndb in the first place.

The ammount of work compared to ammount of visual novels available for console market does not make TL'ing worth the effort. If you add the fact that all of these are all-ages titles, there's really not much to even look forward to.

You can forget about emulation of newest gen consoles anytime soon, if ever. The ammount of processing power required for that with current techniques makes it completely out of the question. There's also a lot of issues with delivering the TL patches themselves.

Console games are aren't even worth the attention in terms of TL'ing, since a team can do a lot more in the same ammount of time in terms of PC game translation.

[Okami]

BlazBlue can hardly be called a real vn. It's just a fighting game with "elaborate" storyline that takes the narrative in a form well known from vn's (textbox + character sprites + cg). It's not a vn per se and shouldn't be ever place on vndb in the first place.

The ammount of work compared to ammount of visual novels available for console market does not make TL'ing worth the effort. If you add the fact that all of these are all-ages titles, there's really not much to even look forward to.

You can forget about emulation of newest gen consoles anytime soon, if ever. The ammount of processing power required for that with current techniques makes it completely out of the question. There's also a lot of issues with delivering the TL patches themselves.

Console games are aren't even worth the attention in terms of TL'ing, since a team can do a lot more in the same ammount of time in terms of PC game translation.

 

First of all there are people in VN fanbase who would go for them intentionaly becouse they are all ages so they being all ages is not a foult and shouldn't be talked about it that way even if you yourself are one of thouse kind who only reads VNs wth H no matter how good of all ages VNs out there are.

 

Secendly they talked the same whey for PS2, PSP and other latest emulations just before them being released and progress made with rpcs3 proves that there is definitely hope for PS3 EMU too.

[DawnWolf]

Yeahhhhh, If we're talking PS3/Wii/360 as current gen, emulation isn't actually a problem.

 

Current day gaming PC's are more than adequately equipped with enough power to emulate all of the above, the problem lies in the system architecture. Well... not the Wii, we've had that 100% emulated for years now. But the PS3... the cell processor is a freaking nightmare. Theres a reason that companies had such horrible and buggy games the first few years the PS3 came out, that being because no one knew what the hell they were doing with the cell. It's really complex, and because of that imitating it on the PC is going to take a large investment of time.

 

And yeah, you do need a good PC. Dem i7s and 770s probably would be a prerequisite for quite awhile until it's optimized. As for the 360... I dunno really, to be honest I think people just don't care enough about it to try and create an emulator, but thats just me.

[Narcosis]

The percentage of western players interested with console VN's is so tiny, it's not really even worth taking into account. There's no real impact whether a vn is all-ages, or not but TL'ing groups often would rather translate few PC releases than waste years trying to prepare an all-ages only translation for some insignificant console game. Console sales are poor anyway; vn players in Japan do not rely on consoles to play vn's, it's more of a marketing ploy nowadays to raise the sales of new consoles and companies like Microsoft and Sony pay popular developers to persuade them into making a console-only versions of their vn's. Don't forget modern consumer electronics are often very cheap in Japan as well; it's really not much of a hassle for them to buy a new console just to play two or three of their favourite games.

It's not possible to efficiently emulate PS3 with our current PC hardware unless we will make another jump or fully utilize multicore capabilities. It took years to master PS2 emulation and it's possible right now only because the newest gen architecture gave so much of a power punch compared to specs from the period PS2 was born; PS2 is very outdated by current standards. Unfortunately, we've reached a dead end in terms of how much can we squeeze from the outdated silicon-based technology, while consoles in truth are still far behind maximum capabilities, they could achieve with our current tech.

[Darklord Rooke]

Hakuoki is pretty much the only one, but it's an exceptional VN. I thoroughly recommend it!

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hakuoki-Stories-Shinsengumi-PlayStation-Standard-Edition/dp/B00G6CLZPA/ref=pd_sim_sbs_vg_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0F4T8BR7GW0R10RWGYHW 

[Decay]

I think that there is a prety good reason for it. No fan TL group is gona pick a VN that dosen't have means to be played on PC as western VN fanbase is prety much all about PC. Moustly becouse more people own a PC then specific console and as VN fanbase is pretty small allredy giving a title that is restricted to only small part of that fanbase is something that none fan TL group want to doo, especially when there are so many great VNs for PC  and consoles with existing emulators too.

 

Proof: There is none fan translated VN that can't be played on PC.

 

Ones PS3 emu is more stable there are probably gona be more of them. (The only real PS3 emu can only run small "homemade" apps, for now.)

 

The Danganronpa translation team started work on that before there was any decently playable PSP emulator. By the time the patch came out, DR only barely worked on one emulator, PPSSPP, and it required some awkward hacks to make it work. It's a rare case, but I do think some TL teams are fine with releasing patches for games that cannot be played on the PC at all. It just depends on the demand. There were a LOT of people with hacked PSPs wanting a translation of DR, there are way fewer people with hacked PS3s. Also, there are barely any PS3/360 exclusive VNs worth caring about.

[Nyanko]

Maybe translations for ps3 will increase when we get a good functioning ps3 emulator. Also in contrary to pc games you can't even use text hookers to help you read the kanji, so it's hard to play a console game without having mastered the Japanese language. I guess this also makes the public that is interested in console VNs in general smaller.   

 

BlazBlue can hardly be called a real vn. It's just a fighting game with "elaborate" storyline that takes the narrative in a form well known from vn's (textbox + character sprites + cg). It's not a vn per se and shouldn't be ever place on vndb in the first place.

The ammount of work compared to ammount of visual novels available for console market does not make TL'ing worth the effort. If you add the fact that all of these are all-ages titles, there's really not much to even look forward to.

Console games are aren't even worth the attention in terms of TL'ing, since a team can do a lot more in the same ammount of time in terms of PC game translation.

I agree some console games that are also labeled "VNs" do not really feel like them. Some however are still worth to translate though, but like you already said it takes a lot of effort compared to a pc game, probably because of the hacking part. 

 

Hakuoki is pretty much the only one, but it's an exceptional VN. I thoroughly recommend it!

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hakuoki-Stories-Shinsengumi-PlayStation-Standard-Edition/dp/B00G6CLZPA/ref=pd_sim_sbs_vg_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0F4T8BR7GW0R10RWGYHW 

OH, almost forgot to put this on my to buy list, this is worth playing. 

[Vemocleus]

I did notice that demo for XBLAZE: code embryo, on the PSN store.  I will definitely support that with a buy when it comes out.

[Cyrillej1]

I did notice that demo for XBLAZE: code embryo, on the PSN store.  I will definitely support that with a buy when it comes out.

I saw that as well.. I have no idea what it's about though except it's linked to the xblaze fighting games? I may get it just to support more visual novel-like games coming here.

 

I've kinda wondered.. why do they have Otome visual novels like Hakouki, and Sweet Fuse.. but no novel games geared towards males? I know there are some that have gameplay in it such as Atelier Tonelico, and such.. but none that are pure novel games.  Unless I've missed them?

[Darkshine]

There's stuff like Blazblue and Disgaea but you can't really consider them VNs, am I right.

[Darklord Rooke]

I've kinda wondered.. why do they have Otome visual novels like Hakouki, and Sweet Fuse.. but no novel games geared towards males? I know there are some that have gameplay in it such as Atelier Tonelico, and such.. but none that are pure novel games.  Unless I've missed them?

 

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say it's because every survey conducted in the recent past has shown women to be more avid readers than men. Some results have suggested almost double the number of women finish a book soon after opening it than their male counterparts, only 69% of men have read a book in the past year compared to over 80% of women, and men are far more likely to own books they have never read. Considering the state of the audience, I'm not surprised the only VN released on a console was otome. I should also point out that most consumers of commercial OELVNs are also women, which is why the english scene is dominated with otomes.

[Decay]

I've kinda wondered.. why do they have Otome visual novels like Hakouki, and Sweet Fuse.. but no novel games geared towards males? I know there are some that have gameplay in it such as Atelier Tonelico, and such.. but none that are pure novel games.  Unless I've missed them?

The otome genre is a huge market in Japan on PSP. There are ports of eroge and some other PC bishoujo VNs for handhelds but the vast majority of all original handheld content is otome. I can only guess why. Perhaps men far less likely to read a romance story if it doesn't feature pornography so the market for all-ages titles skew towards women and creators of those want to focus on that demographic exclusively. The most popular non-otome handheld/console titles have only a light to no focus on romance, after all. If you want to get people to care about an all-ages bishoujo romance VN, it better be something really special. Most companies besides Key don't have the balls to do it.