Atlus: “No plans” for Catherine in North America
Matthew Lee February 24, 2011 - 5:27 pm
Update: Despite Atlus’ comments, Catherine has since been announced for a North American release.
If you’re waiting for Atlus and Team Persona’s bizarre erotic horror-arcade puzzler Catherine to be localised, you may have to wait a little longer: Atlus’ US PR has told BeefJack, very apologetically, there are currently no plans for a North American release.
“Catherine is a Japan-only game and there are no plans for a NA release at this time. Sorry about that!” reads the statement.
Catherine has currently been doing very well for itself in Japan, comfortably beating Marvel vs Capcom 3 to the top of the all-formats chart, though it’s anyone’s guess how much of this was down to the scantily-clad ladies on the box.
I’m playing the import, and I can tell you it’s certainly a great game… though complaints from Japanese players about its difficulty are not exaggerating. Seriously, it makes Demon’s Souls look like a walk in the park. We’ll bring you a longer writeup on BeefJack just as soon as we can.
Comments (25)
fine with me, hell i dont even know what it is
Then you, sir, are missing out.
how? i bet 15 out of 20 people dont know what the heck game this is.
Probably 19 out of 20. And they’re missing out, too. Quality has little relationship to popular knowledge.
I’ve no idea how this game is to play, just yet, but the premise and the trailers make it look startlingly different to any other game I’ve ever seen. To me, that’s the first sign that it’s worth a closer look.
that just goes to show how unpopular this game is…
*Whoosh*
Or are you being sarcastic?
actually no… im saying this as a fact.
I agree this is probably gonna be one of those games that if not released outside of japan will be upsetting, the fact it sold out so quickly means it clearly has a lot of interest.
@chris
Just because the game is only released in japan does not mean it’s unpopular, the gaming industry as a whole still believes japan is where they will make there money with games. I don’t know much about catherine but that’s what has me so interested in the game.
I’m calling bullshit on this one. If Demon’s Souls — and hell, even Steal Princess — made it over, this one will too. It’s probably way too early for Atlus to be planning for a US release; just because they don’t have plans now doesn’t mean they won’t in the future.
I admit I’d be very surprised. Still, in that case a ‘No comment’ would have done just as well, or they could even say ‘Sorry, it’s too early for us to have made any decisions one way or the other’ themselves. It’s just it’s the first HD title from members of Team Persona – if they announced Persona 6 I’d expect Atlus US to bring it over double-quick even if (for some reason) it flopped in Japan. ‘No plans’ has me thinking at the very least they’re a bit concerned about how well it would do.
There’s probably some truth to that.
But the flip side of it is, this actually gets a bit more buzz/hype, then straight out announcing plans, or not being sure.
Shall be interesting to keep up with this, that’s for sure.
I suspect the worry would be how the sexual content will go down in the US. But that’s okay – just release in Europe and Australia! We want you to!
Really was looking forward to this game. Oh well, time to learn Japanese I suppose.
oh that guy can stick it! and the idiots at cave too! nobody forces them to release their games region-locked! and especially when they don’t even plan to release it abroad, it makes no damn sense!
i am so outraged by this stupid region-locking mentality of some japanese companies that i registered just to write this -_-
Um, actually, no one said anything about any region-lock. Not Atlus, or anyone else.
you should do at least a little research before trying to refute somebody’s claim.
http://www.play-asia.com/Catherine/paOS-13-71-br-49-en-70-40in-18-1.html
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/605301-catherine/57981835
and if these two guys lack credibility in your opinion, there is obviously already a dvd-image of the game on the web and these images always say whether they’re region free or locked. and this one is locked. of course i won’t link to a source with this, you’d have to spend one or two minutes on google yourself.
only xbox version is region locked, ps3 japan and other asian versions are not region locked.
http://hey-hey-listen.com/2011/02/atlus-sends-us-odd-letter/
http://hey-hey-listen.com/2011/02/rumor-catherine-to-be-released-in-us-to-be-released-in-june/
I’d say that PR rep is trolling us…
http://hey-hey-listen.com/2011/03/catherine-confirmed-by-atlus/
Game CONFIRMED AND AMAZON LINKS!
just received my atlus faithful newsletter detailing north american release summer 2011^^ (already ordered import version, but will get this one too when available)
We did actually post a story about the game coming out in the US. But you guys are obviously not checking the site enough to know this http://beefjack.com/news/catherine-arriving-this-summer-in-us/ Went up on the same day that everyone knew.
Please Atlus, I would very much appreciate you bringing this over here…as well as Disgaea 4. Please, I’m being nice about this, don’t make me get violent
I have actually noticed Catherine being offered for pre order on amazon, many many times, maybe its a fluke, but I hope not… at http://www.amazon.com/Catherine-Playstation-3/dp/B004P7VGF2/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1301015114&sr=1-1
Here’s the import link, so there are TWO different pages, here, I think its coming stateside…http://www.amazon.com/Atlus-CATHERINE-PS3-Japan-Playstation-3/dp/B004O9ONEW/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1301015114&sr=1-2
Yeah, it has actually been confirmed now – see the update at the top of the post.