Sony Assisted with Shining Resonance’s Chinese Localization

We know that Sony, through their relatively recently-formed Third Party Productions division is assisting with the localization process of Yakuza 5. However, Siliconera wrote recently that Sony also assisted with the Chinese localization of Shining Resonance. The Chinese localization of Shining Resonance was first announced in August of last year, and now the game can be purchased through PSN for accounts registered in Taiwan. The product page (in English) on the PS Store for the Asia region can be seen here.

There aren’t any publicly released accounts talking about how Sony contributed to Shining Resonance’s localization into Traditional Chinese. Regardless, it is interesting to see that Sony is assisting Sega with localization of a product for a second time. Hong Kong and Taiwan are countries with many who speak Chinese, so perhaps this localization is designed to see if Sega can consistently localize their mid to big budget titles for this region and see satisfactory returns.

Siliconera linked to a playlist of YouTube videos from a player demoing the Chinese localization. The first of the set of 18 videos can be seen here. Be warned that they contain a significant amount of footage and show off lots of the game.

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