dbboxkaifan wrote:"Dragon Ball For Kinect" this title sounds and looks so much better than the originally used for it, it really is a shame it isn't "Dragon Ball For Kinect".
I honestly would like an international release of Dragon Ball Heroes (Arcade Machines / PC / Consoles / Mobile Phones), but thinking about this whole Z-thing, it'd be "Dragon Ball Z Heroes" so it'd probably better stay exclusive to Japan. Unless the title's the original.
Toei Animation & Namco Bandai have to let go Dragon Ball Z if they want Dragon Ball to move forward.
They named the game
Dragon Ball Z For Kinect because it focuses on the Z era and its characters. They do not name those games Dragon Ball
Z only because casual consumers love
DBZeee which is full of stupid yells, punches and laser beams like you think. Dragon Ball Heroes is a game that features a parallel universe with characters from both Z and GT, so if it's released in the US, there would be few reasons to name it
Dragon Ball Z Heroes.
But anyway, if they have been releasing video games under the name of DBZ just because
DBZ is more famous and appealing, that would still be fairly understandable. You know, it's a business. They have to give appealing names to their products to sell them more. They have no responsibility for not using
Z even for products that feature the Z era because of a puristic reason like
making Dragon Ball move forward.
To me, it seems that you think that they don't use the name DBZ anymore in Japan for such a reason, but that's wrong. They stopped using
DBZ for moving comsumers' focus to Kai, which is newer and hotter. After making the shift to Kai, releasing something under the name of
DBZ would be confusing and snag the Kai merchandising they want to sell, so games featuring the Z era and focused on older fans lack
Z in their names. Letting
Z lack would be more appearling than using the Kai brand which older fans are not used to. Once again, it's a business. Everything is decided for dinero.
