Gaming Nintendo To Publish Yo-kai Watch In The West

[tom_mai78101]

We’ve been waiting for more news regarding Yo-kai Watch’s localization outside of Japan for quite a while now, and Level-5 revealed more details during their Level-5 Vision 2015 event.



CEO Akihiro Hino said that now that the Yo-kai Watch series has found its success in Japan, Level-5 will aim to follow up with a similar level of success in the West, where Nintendo will publish the games. Meanwhile, Hasbro will handle the toys outside of Japan.



Level 5 shared a look at some clips of the Yo-kai Watch anime in its English dub, and talks with the folks from Hasbro who are enthusiastic to start their first step of sharing the series’ love in the West.



Yo-kai Watch will be released in North America in 2016, and following its launch in that territory, Hasbro and Level 5 will roll it out in other territories month-by-month, completing their global launch by the end of 2016.


Read more here. (Silicon Era)

 

[Accname]

Your link is broken tom.
By the way, wtf is this? What you have quoted from the article does not explain what kind of crap "Yo Kai Watch" is supposed to be?

 

[tom_mai78101]

Your link is broken tom.
By the way, wtf is this? What you have quoted from the article does not explain what kind of crap "Yo Kai Watch" is supposed to be?

Sorry about that. Fixed.

Yo-kai Watch is a very popular RPG, popular enough to eclipse Pokémon's popularity. For some reasons, actual game fans know Yokai Watch like you know Pokémon very well.

 

[KMilz]

[...] popular enough to eclipse Pokémon's popularity.

Lies! You have no idea how many American children growing up in the 90's wanted to be the very best, like no one ever was!

 

[tom_mai78101]

Lies! You have no idea how many American children growing up in the 90's wanted to be the very best, like no one ever was!

I never said any demographics.

And besides, American children growing up in the 10's is never going to know how American 90's children growing up feels like. I am expecting to see Yokai Watch to be popular for children born after 2010.

 

[KMilz]

So popular enough to eclipse Poke'mon's decades old popularity as it currently stands? That's not so impressive a feat.

 

[tom_mai78101]

So popular enough to eclipse Poke'mon's decades old popularity as it currently stands? That's not so impressive a feat.

It was being compared to the height of explosive popularity of early Pokémon fame in Japan, when Yokai Watch was released.

 

[KMilz]

See, now that doesn't sound like a real thing.