Exclusively for ios.
Let's hope the localization reads better than this.
I was joking, of course. But good to know they have a different Twitter for that PC game,
They've localized almost everything in recent years. Dragon Quest simply hasn't been that successful outside Japan, so in DQ's case they have let Nintendo do it. It's simply no wonder if they are a bit more careful nowadays given how they were given shit back for all their efforts (most of their PSP & DS efforts didn't sell all that well). DQ Slime is as niche as games get, 3DS sales aren't all that hot, 1 + 1 = no localization. And Type-0 was released for an already-dead-in-the-west platform, so there's a good reason for it not having a localization. I don't see any reason NOT to be confident that Bravely Default arrives outside Japan, especially given Nintendo's announcement about helping Japanese 3rd parties get games released overseas. But just like its spiritual predecessor, it simply isn't a priority project as far as localizations go.
It has fuck all to do with Square Enix. Just a few years back they were releasing all of their DS & PSP games except for some super mega niche titles that would've sold 3 copies outside Japan (SaGA remakes) and anime tie-ins that they published. What happened? Those games mostly sold like shit or undertheir expectations, no matter that a lot of those games were the best JRPGs/games in general on those platforms. They tried supporting the genre in the west and were massively burned on it.
DQ5's print run was large enough that it took months to sell out. People seem to only remember it getting rare eventually, but that was when the first print finally started to disappear.
Incidentally, if it vanished FAST we'd probably have seen SE take a very different stance on DQ, getting IX and VI published themselves, possibly having gotten the spin-offs here already, and VII and X would be questions on WHEN, not IF.
