Still No Announcement in Japan...

[HISHO[JP]]

This is my first post.

Pulse was released in EU, it will be released in US.
But...
SCEJ(SCE Japan) has no announcement about Pulse yet....

SCEJ's games list of sale schedule (Sorry, Japanese page)
You won't find any "Wipeout Pulse" name.

A lot of Japanese "Wipers(Wipeout fans)" are waiting for Pulse!
Are there any problems to release in Japan?
(Some Wipeout titles are already "lost" in Japan, such as FUSION.)

(I'm one of Japanese Wipers, so some English may be wrong...)

[infoxicated]

Hi Hisho - welcome to the site.

Sorry, but as far as I know there wont be a Japanese version - that could change if the game does well in other territories, but right now there are no plans to release in Japan.

[Dogg Thang]

Wow, that's a surprise. Did Pure perform really badly there? I'm surprised as it seemed quite a bit of effort went into the Japanese version with things like the Wire 05 pack and the (nasty but probably lucrative) Coke packs.

It's probably a good thing that the Japanese were spared Fusion but they'd be missing out if Pulse didn't make it there.

[jacen]

uhm ... are the coke packs compatible with the international version? i'd really like to extend my gold medal count in pure -_-

[stin]

jacen, The answer is no, just Japanese's version only, which I have , in Pure I mean.

stevie

[Dogg Thang]

You're better off, Jacen. I put the Coke pack on my JP Pure and went blind for a month. I still have nightmares about it.

[zargz]

This is my first post.

Pulse was released in EU, it will be released in US.
But...
SCEJ(SCE Japan) has no announcement about Pulse yet....

I think you should import it from europe.
all Pulse versions are compatible so you can join us on the online games!

welcome to the wipeoutzone!

[HISHO[JP]]

SCEE Studio Liverpool has finally deserted Japan...?
(Maybe Wipeout HD is same.)

So Japanese language is not supported in wipeoutpulse.com,
wipeouthd.com, and wipeout-game.com...?

I think you should import it from europe.
all Pulse versions are compatible so you can join us on the online games!

I heard that Japanese PSN account does not work,
required EU account just like demo version of Pulse in Playstation Store....


Added in 3:12 AM JST(GMT+9h)
SCEJ is so lier...
In Pure, SCEJ didn't write about any team info, histories and words about F9000 written in wipeout-pure.com.

New info, I heard that Japanese PSN account works.

But I have another worries...
SCEJ has ever removed Infrastructure multiplay features until "minna-no golf portable2" was released.
Japanese Motor Storm (PS3,Racing game by SCEE) 's online multiplayer can battle against Japanese only.
Will Japanese language be supported in official websites someday...?

[Colin Berry]

the decision lies with Sony Japan, not Sony Europe or Studio Liverpool

We'd love it to be released in Japan. Currently though sony japan do not seem to want it on their schedule.

[stin]

Interesting!, I thought Sony`s company known as a whole!, so, I was wrong!

stevie

[BARTgai]

I heard that Japanese PSN account does not work,
required EU account just like demo version of Pulse in Playstation Store....

wait, wat? you mean i cant play pulse online with my NA account?

[Dogg Thang]

What's to stop you registering from another country?

[BARTgai]

you are required to put an adress in, i cant just make one up in the UK lol

[Frances_Penfold]

Wow, I am surprised that Sony Japan wouldn't want to release this-- very little localization would seem necessary

I heard that Japanese PSN account does not work, required EU account just like demo version of Pulse in Playstation Store....

I can report that my North American PSN account DOES work with the PAL version of Wipeout Pulse-- so maybe your JPN account would as well? Also, as Dogg says, you can create a PSN account in another region (PAL or NA) if you needed to.

Did Pure perform really badly there?

JPN sales are pretty transparent thanks to Media Create and other groups that track sales in Asia-- last time I checked one of the gear-head threads about PSP sales over at Neogaf, it was estimated that Wipeout Pure sold around 300,000 or so in Japan? Not bad at all-- with the apparent abandonment of the F-zero franchise, one might think that Pulse would stand to have even more sales than Pure.

Edit... no, sales were closer to 30,000 than 300,000-- so surprisingly low for a high-end game that was a million seller across all territories
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=177723

[Hail Seizure]

you are required to put an adress in, i cant just make one up in the UK lol

Why not?

[Frances_Penfold]

you are required to put an adress in, i cant just make one up in the UK lol

Check out the following thread on the IGN PSP forum-- apparently it's pretty straightforward (and legitimate) to create a PSN account in another region. There are some caveats, in particular, that it can change your PSP's assigned account. Chakoo is a PSP developer and Nix is an editor at IGN, both of them know their stuff

http://boards.ign.com/psp_general_bo...5524380/p1/?12

wait, wat? you mean i cant play pulse online with my NA account?

I can absolutely confirm that you CAN do this-- I have played online and also have uploaded my times and stats to the Wipeout servers, and I am a North American resident and have a North American PSN account

[BARTgai]

oh thank god lol.


i feel much better now.

[HISHO[JP]]

Maybe some people don't see this edit so I quote it here...

Added in 3:12 AM JST(GMT+9h)
SCEJ is so lier...
In Pure, SCEJ didn't write about any team info, histories and words about F9000 written in wipeout-pure.com.

New info, I heard that Japanese PSN account works.

But I have another worries...
SCEJ has ever removed Infrastructure multiplay features until "minna-no golf portable2" was released.
Japanese Motor Storm (PS3,Racing game by SCEE) 's online multiplayer can battle against Japanese only.
Will Japanese language be supported in official websites someday...?

But "Need EU account to play demo version on PS Store" is true...

One good news, a owner of the japanese fansite linked from wipeoutzone got EU version of Pulse.
(But I'll wait for Japanese version.)

[zargz]

Let's hope it will come soon!

[Frances_Penfold]

Indeed-- hopefully you can soon get a copy of the game one way or the other, Hisho

Let us know if there's any additional information that we can provide.