Will Nintendo’s next portable see more support from third-parties than the Nintendo DS did? Renegade Kid founder Jools Watsham thinks so.

We wrap up by touching upon Georgia’s future plans and breaking into voiceover work.

In this segment, we discuss Georgia’s approach to voicing Vanille versus the direction provided by Square Enix.

We discuss the advantages of smaller development teams, and its effect on communication and iteration, with Nanostray developer Shin’en.

This week, we wrap up our talk with MangaGamer with talk of visual novels potentially appearing on consoles in the West.

This week, we discuss barriers to entry to the visual novel genre such as price and art style with MangaGamer.

We discuss differing tastes in eroge across the East and West, and why some of those incredible-looking games haven’t been published outside of Japan yet.

What initially started out as a talk about localization eventually went on and on (and on) to cover marketing, relations with Japanese publishers, how they pick their projects, expanding beyond the niche audience and even the pricing of their games.

How does a smaller publisher stay afloat without a flagship franchise? Does the absence of a core franchise people can identify with them hurt their position in the niche games market?

Why is it so hard to get publishers to open up about their products? Does there need to be more effective communication in the niche games space?

This week, we talk about working with developers to make games globally appealing, working with fan-translators, and why Dragon Ball Z might be so popular in the West (I promise you won’t see this one coming).

This week, we talk about what affects the appeal of a Japanese game in the West. Joining us is Ken Berry, Director of Publishing at Xseed.

While it might sound like a dream come true, it’s not all fun and games. We talk about what it’s like and how it has affected us.

Publishers have been complaining that the DS RPG market is in decline in the West. We try to explore why.

Originally, the discussion started out with me asking if there was a way for more RPG publishers to replicate Final Fantasy’s success with female gamers.

NIS America’s Nick Doerr joins us for a discussion on the state of console JRPGs as we kick off our new feature!