Dead Rising: Case Zero Delayed [Japan only]

Dead Rising: Case Zero Delayed [Japan only]

Those damn zombies are just too slow...

Written by zigs00 on 30 August 10 at 15:24

Edit:
Okay, panic over! Over on their official blog (http://www.capcom-unity.com/jgonzo/blog/2010/08/30/dead_risi...), Capcom have confirmed that the game will still release tomorrow in North America and Europe, for definite.

I want to apologise for being a bit too presumptive with this news, and I'm sorry for getting this wrong! We all make mistrakes, eh? And hey, it's good news after all! (Unless you live in Japan).


Original story:
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero was scheduled for release tomorrow, but Capcom Japan today announced that the game has in fact been delayed and won't hit that release date.

According to Famitsu, the reasoning behind this decision is that some inappropriate language has been discovered in the game, as well as content that isn't appropriate for a free demo. Vague and fairly unexplanatory, and to make matters worse Capcom have not announced a new date for the game's release. I'd imagine we won't have to wait too long, but you never know.

It's worth noting though that this delay doesn't definitely affect the Western release of the game, but it seemed worth a news post just in case. The Japanese release date has indeed shifted, but it's still not clear about the rest of us. Some news sites are reporting that the North American release date hasn't changed at all, but there's not been any confirmation yet on that.

On the bright side, this news doesn't affect the retail version of Dead Rising 2, which is still scheduled for release on September 24th in Europe/Australia, September 28th in North America and September 30th in Japan.

Related items: Dead Rising 2 | Dead Rising 2: Case Zero

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One day away. It was so close.
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I hope we still get it tomorrow!
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Damn! Was looking forward to this. Hopefully we won't have to wait too long.
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Super disappointing.
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Free demo? I thought it was 400msp???
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You pay to have achievements and the experience transfer abilities, IIRC.
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Damn I was lookin forward to this
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Nuffzx said:Free demo? I thought it was 400msp???Free trial version, I believe.
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Any hints if this will be released in Germany? I doubt it, since we didn't get Dead Rising 1 (or awesome Games like GoW and Gow2) (beside the Dead Rising Wii Version.....(No Fun Version))
)Oh yeah don't forget Wolfenstein, Doom 1/2, Duke Nukem 3D and Zombie Apocalypse..none of them is available here....
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It's only affecting Japan

source... http://www.examiner.com/video-game-in-national/capcom-speaks...
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Only Japan. Check capcom-unity.com for more details.
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figures....
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DimitriRascalov said:Only Japan. Check capcom-unity.com for more details.Just did check there mate, can't see anything there. I check Capcom Unity a lot, and their last post was on the 28th.
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I was scared for a moment :( cant wait for tomorrow!
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arasma said:It's only affecting Japan

source... http://www.examiner.com/video-game-in-national/capcom-speaks...Nice, just hopin its still on track in europe too
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zigs00 said:DimitriRascalov said:Only Japan. Check capcom-unity.com for more details.Just did check there mate, can't see anything there. I check Capcom Unity a lot, and their last post was on the 28th.On the forums they talked about the original press release in Japan being only available in Japanese. I'm assuming if it was meant to be for all versions, they would have announced in English, not in Japanese.

Either way, whole story is a little confusing (the story, not your story ziggggs, your's was crystal clear) and I guess we'll find out all the details tomorrow.
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all in all pretty pathetic any way you look at seeing as case zero was completed and ready for download over 2 months ago. Delay delay delay.... Lame.
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Does Japan have a strict set of rules on game rating vs. availability?

They may have to cut back the demo to the highest rating possible that doesn't require age verification, so that it can be distributed on-line.

But that's speculation, the article linked above by arasma doesn't go into any details.
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DimitriRascalov said:On the forums they talked about the original press release in Japan being only available in Japanese. I'm assuming if it was meant to be for all versions, they would have announced in English, not in Japanese. That's what I thought at first, but at the time I wrote this, it seemed logical that Capcom Japan were just the first to announce it because of the timezone. It's a Bank Holiday here in the UK today, so Capcom Europe is probably closed for the day, and the US side haven't said anything about it either way, so that doesn't necessarily mean it's Japan only.

DimitriRascalov said:Either way, whole story is a little confusing (the story, not your story ziggggs, your's was crystal clear) and I guess we'll find out all the details tomorrow.I've edited my post a little to reflect that lack of clarity. No disrespect to that site linked on the CU forums, nor the link posted above, but I'd rather wait for solid confirmation from a more reputable source before saying it's Japan only.