Some interesting information surfaced from Gajinworks recently. The upcoming RETRO magazine will apparently contain a teaser for one of their upcoming PSP games. But on Gajinworks’ forum where people were trying to guess which game was being localized, Gajinworks’ founder (Vic Ireland) mentioned this regarding VC3:
This speculation is closest to the mark, but it will be a bit more, just not Suikoden or VC3 (though we’re still pushing to try to make something happen with both of those).
While unfortunately this means VC3 wasn’t one of the games being teased, it’s certainly interesting to see that Gajinworks is still trying to make a deal with Sega to get these games localized. Between XSEED, LAI and Gajinworks we now have three companies that have shown interest in localizing Valkyria Chronicles 3. That’s not counting Sony’s new Third Party Production team which may be interested in getting the game localized as well. The simple fact that several companies want to localize VC3 still begs the question why Sega refuses to localize the game themselves (especially now that they own Atlus, which has more than enough experience localizing niche Japanese games). At least this news means there’s still some hope that we’ll see Valkyria Chronicles 3 localized.
Source: Gaijinworks set to tease new PSP localization in Retro magazine #1
I doubt it will be Atlus, like SEGA they don’t want to release anymore PSP games. They didn’t even bring over a Persona game, they are that committed.
I have a feeling Atlus may get other SEGA games, at least they should.
Hyped for the next Gaijinworks title, discussions seem to lean towards Tengai Makyou which I heard is fantastic.
Valkyria Chronicles 3 would certainly be welcome–I’m also still waiting for the second game (on PSN) to be downloadable for the Vita though. I’d like to imagine the third game could gain some more traction if the second one was actually available for the current handheld.