Amusingly, the one game they blamed Anita Sarkeesian for getting cancelled in the West was… Dead or Alive: Xtreme 3
IIRC Tecmo made no official statement about it not getting a release outside of Japan, but whomever was operating their Facebook page pointed to “current social attitudes overseas” as the reason when they were asked and Kotaku in Action types ran with it like they had finally found the bloody murder weapon with Anita’s fingerprints all over it
I recall people mentioning that Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 for the Xbox 360 sold like absolute dogshit. I think the only reason the first two games got released in the West at all was because they were done during Tomonobu Itagaki’s reign at Team Ninja and his exclusivity deal with Microsoft
Amusingly, the one game they blamed Anita Sarkeesian for getting cancelled in the West was… Dead or Alive: Xtreme 3
IIRC Tecmo made no official statement about it not getting a release outside of Japan, but whomever was operating their Facebook page pointed to “current social attitudes overseas” as the reason when they were asked and Kotaku in Action types ran with it like they had finally found the bloody murder weapon with Anita’s fingerprints all over it
lol I would bet money that they just determined it wasn’t worth the cost of localization like dozens of other games but it fit the narrative so
I recall people mentioning that Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 for the Xbox 360 sold like absolute dogshit. I think the only reason the first two games got released in the West at all was because they were done during Tomonobu Itagaki’s reign at Team Ninja and his exclusivity deal with Microsoft