Comments on: Sega’s take on the localization of Japanese games causes controversy  https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20240131-26484/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:51:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Alimento https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20240131-26484/#comment-1507 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:51:03 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=26484#comment-1507 Respectfully, I don’t think dogpiling by a small portion of trolls who misunderstand Sega’s stance on localization constitutes as controversy, and unfortunately this article lacks director Masayoshi Yokoyama’s follow-up to the Japan Times article:

https://x.com/yokoyama_masa/status/1752682081531085216?s=20

To sum it up, he states that localization can never change the actual content of a game, localization’s goal is to take ideas, that when translated literally don’t come across so well, and make them palatable to players in other markets without changing fundamental meaning, etc. Ultimately, I think the content of this article is informative, but the headline and opening statements are needlessly inflammatory — the trolls on the wrong side of this culture war are louder than they are significant.

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