Japanese prayers answered: Japanese Oblivion next year

And so the saying goes, “Ask, and ye shall receive…” Well, Japanese gamers asked Bethesda for a Japanese language version of Oblivion, and now Bethesda tells Kotaku that they will be making just that: a Japan-localized version of Oblivion, which will be made available some time next year.

Everyone once thought that the low numbers of Xbox 360s in Japan would make such a localization less likely, but Maybe Bethesda saw what happened with Blue Dragon and thought – hey, what about us? However, “sometime next year” is of course the equivalent of a shotgun blast at a distant target since that could be anywhere from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007. They do have much to translate in terms of spoken and written dialogue afterall.

And besides, Final Fantasy XII took seven months to migrate from Japan to America. It’s only a matter of patience, really.

And so the saying goes, “Ask, and ye shall receive…” Well, Japanese gamers asked Bethesda for a Japanese language version of Oblivion, and now Bethesda tells Kotaku that they will be making just that: a Japan-localized version of Oblivion, which will be made available some time next year.

Everyone once thought that the low numbers of Xbox 360s in Japan would make such a localization less likely, but Maybe Bethesda saw what happened with Blue Dragon and thought – hey, what about us? However, “sometime next year” is of course the equivalent of a shotgun blast at a distant target since that could be anywhere from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007. They do have much to translate in terms of spoken and written dialogue afterall.

And besides, Final Fantasy XII took seven months to migrate from Japan to America. It’s only a matter of patience, really.