I highly doubt it, unless they expect to sell HUGE in Latin Amecrica. Spain sales were not too high. All in all, TW2 sold best in Poland and Russia (within Europe). Other countries' sales were marginal.
Still, best bet for CDPRed would be going big in USA (mainly by increasing marketing). Dubbing isVERY expensive, and having any other language than English (which is a kind of universal language now) would only be achieved if the ammount of sales does allow the expenses.
Still, best bet for CDPRed would be going big in USA (mainly by increasing marketing). Dubbing isVERY expensive, and having any other language than English (which is a kind of universal language now) would only be achieved if the ammount of sales does allow the expenses.
I don't know but spanish dubbing in the first game was so bad. I prefer that they spend resources in other aspects.
Xenahort said:
Well if they don't translate it in your language, you can still make it yourselves (generally speaken), CDP Red will surely help.
i.e. look at the turkish fans
http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?/topic/28767-news-a-new-language-version-of-the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings-enhanced-edition/page__p__792715__hl__turkish__fromsearch__1#entry792715
You are wrong:Jackinthegreen said:
1st place (24% of sales) US + Canada
2nd place (21% of sales) Russian speaking countries
3rd place (17% of sales) Central Europe (Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary etc.)
4th place (12% of sales) German speaking countries
5th place (9% of sales) Rest of Europe (Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece etc.)
6th place (7% of sales) UK
7th place (6% of sales) Rest of the World (Australia, New Zealand, Asia etc.)
8th place (4% of sales) France
But those numbers are from PC version only, so I assume that US and Western Europe has much bigger % of sales now.
Aver said:
The 75% of this population has not problem with English (in general) but usually Spanish-talking population doesn't study English at school as a second language />/> , sad but true (not the generation who plays TW saga ata less). And a lot, a huge number of them doesn't buy game which have no translation in Spanish. That's one of the reasons what spanish-speakers has at www.clandlan.net a resource of a lot of modder's translation of a lot of games since some years ago. So, south-american market does not appear is that list....some millions of potential forgotten costumers....
I think that it was not even officially published in South America in other way than they could buy it on Steam/GOG. From what I've read on plenty of forums, South Americans are complaining that plenty of publishers do not distribute games there at all. If they don't want pirate a game then they have to buy it on NA Steam or in other digital stores. So any purchases made by them are counted as purchases made by US/Canada customers, but I doubt that many copies were bought by South Americans, because it unlikely that many of them were able to afford a game priced for North American market.
I'm quite stubborn on this topic, but I really feel subtitles should be good enough for anyone. I always play video games/films in the original language with subtitles (usually English), because that's the way the game/film was made. (Of course, in films you get the additional problem that lip sync with VO's makes your eyes hurt.)
I bought one regular boxed version and then imported a Premium one from USA, but they also had the Premium one not imported here, and the dark edition or collectors edition with geralt's head imported, costed like 300 dollars lol.Aver said:
They shouldnt worry much about SA anyway because everyone pirates the games here unless they have multiplayer, and even in some games they have pirate servers for multiplayer
I said "within Europe", Russia and Poland came first... so how was I wrong...?Aver said:
The fact that in general Spanish speaking gamers usually play their games in native language is correct... But also there are very few HIGH budget games that include Spanish language dubbing(EAs games for example do that).
So keepning that in mind, lets also remember RPGs are a niche of the market, its not a massive market. So Im sure there are people that would love to play the Witcher games and cant because of the lack of Spanish dubbing... But many can manage with subtitles alone...
Its really part of the culture though, because in spain not just with videogames but also with movies and TV shows there is a lot of focus in making sure they are dubbed, it having to do with "retaining the value of the native language" or something like that i've heard.Jackinthegreen said:I said "within Europe", Russia and Poland came first... so how was I wrong...?
The fact that in general Spanish speaking gamers usually play their games in native language is correct... But also there are very few HIGH budget games that include Spanish language dubbing(EAs games for example do that).
So keepning that in mind, lets also remember RPGs are a niche of the market, its not a massive market. So Im sure there are people that would love to play the Witcher games and cant because of the lack of Spanish dubbing... But many can manage with subtitles alone...
In all other spanish speaking places, central america and south, most content isnt dubbed and id dare to say most people actually hate it.
I actually thought the Spanish voiceover in the first Witcher was quite good. Acting is convincing and the writing makes good word choices. German voices on the other hand sound very cheesy. Polish is the number one for me, but honestly I think the Spanish voices in TW1 are better than the English voices. Many characters in TW1's English dubbing lack emotion or vocabulary. Thaler, for example, goes overboard with the swearing in English. But in Spanish, he actually is capable of speaking eloquently, along with his swearing.
More realistically, and considering the regions where The Witcher is more popular, I'd say TW3 will be dubbed to English, German and Russian on release.
@Aver,
You are right about a chunk of the North American sales coming from Central and South American customers. And not just from Steam, also from retailers like Amazon and Best Buy.
Now about the prices, you'd be surprised. In some countries taxes are so ridiculously high that US game prices are actually CHEAPER than in the local markets. And importing games and electronics from the US ends up being cheaper than buying them locally.
More realistically, and considering the regions where The Witcher is more popular, I'd say TW3 will be dubbed to English, German and Russian on release.
@Aver,
You are right about a chunk of the North American sales coming from Central and South American customers. And not just from Steam, also from retailers like Amazon and Best Buy.
Now about the prices, you'd be surprised. In some countries taxes are so ridiculously high that US game prices are actually CHEAPER than in the local markets. And importing games and electronics from the US ends up being cheaper than buying them locally.
There are a lot of things we don't know yet, but information will be coming out over time. The game will almost certainly be available in Polish, English, Russian, and German; I'm sure they'll tell us which other languages it will be available in by the time they start taking pre-orders.
It's still very early! We'll get lots more information over the next year.
It's still very early! We'll get lots more information over the next year.