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Arabic in PS4 (finally )

Sony responds to the request from the Arab Gaming Community to add the Arabic language to the PlayStation 4.

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xHeavYx3875d ago

You know you are doing great when the main complaint you get is not having Arabic language

NewMonday3875d ago

sir! I take offence at your comment :(

you know Arabic text is used for many languages not just Arabic, supporting the text will also open up the integration of Farsi and Urdu.

totally a population of about 500 million.

xHeavYx3875d ago

I didn't say the Arabic language is not important, I only said that's the biggest complaint I've heard about the PS4

Gimmemorebubblez3875d ago

Im glad Arabic is being supported, its long overdue.

UltimateMaster3874d ago

Is it just me, or will the PS4 be a real winner?

viveks863874d ago

Agreed! Though I imagine this to be a pretty complex task! RTL text support is a big deal. A few years in the middle east showed me what a pain it is to support it in every piece of software we make.

Props to Sony for deciding to implement it and the fans for making it happen. I'm really liking the recent trend of consumers making quite an impact on corporate policy and product direction!

The Great Melon3874d ago (Edited 3874d ago )

@ viveks86

Yeah, people think it is just simple replacement of English, Spanish, German, etc. It takes a bit more effort when the runs the opposite direction of most Western languages and you have to tweak your platform so that it formats properly.

LordDhampire3874d ago

I hope it doesnt lead to farsi

Vip3r3874d ago

And about only 10,000 at the most will take advantage of arabic being on the PS4 of that 500 million.

friedricr3874d ago

he isn't insulting the arabic language .....

MWong3874d ago (Edited 3874d ago )

Yea, not sure why he took offense to the comment. I have to agree with xHeavYx. Compared to the current-gen launch complaints, you know Sony's doing a great job when the only thing people are complaining about is not having a dialect. During PS3 launch people were like; WTF @ the price, CELL what, we don't need Blu-Ray and the list went on and on.

Fans complained Sony quickly responds, "hey we'll have it sometime down the line, probably not at launch." They turn around and deliver it in 2 weeks, under promise and over deliver. Across the tracks an article earlier said the XBone was missing drivers and some dev's were mad

He didn't attack it or anything, just made a true statement.

nix3874d ago

newmonday.. you owe xheavyx an apology.

NewMonday3874d ago (Edited 3874d ago )

@Vip3r

right now the market for most games is fore those who can read English, that is less than 1/1000, having Arabic text will multiply the market by x1000, it is in the best interest of Sony if they should put in the effort.

and something that should be an advantage is that advertising should be easy, despite having over 20 countries Arabians mainly watch a handful of international Arabic networks.

@xHeavYx
I was saying in a Foghorn Leghorn tone :p

fredpinta3874d ago

who cares about arabic in ps4...good for arabicrist for the arabic language..but to be hones, they spend most of their time killing themselves and uploading videos on liveleak or outside showing off their 1000000 dollars supercars obtained without even working ever in their lives than next to a tv playing video games

pixelsword3874d ago

@ fredpinta:

Way to play the racist card. : /

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xHoii3875d ago

Did you just copy and paste that comment from the other article regarding Arabic support for ps4?

wishingW3L3874d ago (Edited 3874d ago )

it feels like deja-vu indeed.

BISHOP-BRASIL3874d ago

1. Yes, deja-cu
2. Just realized I'm spending far too much time on this site.
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!

Anon19743874d ago

I love how they say it's supported...finally. The damn console hasn't even been released yet. It's not like they were sitting around with their PS4's for a year, waiting for Arabic language support and are just getting it now.

T23874d ago

Right? I mean Sony is going all out to please this gen ...

Kuse3874d ago

We can do without a lot less terrorists though...

ZHZ903874d ago

Even though I prefer English for Gaming but I am happy that my 1st language, Arabic, will be supported.

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yellowgerbil3875d ago

with a title like that I thought they were inventing a new language for the ps4, like elven or some such.
I want my PS4 native language to be set to pig latin.

RyuCloudStrife3874d ago

this is good news, the folks at Saudi Arabia love the PS4, so this is great.

M-M3875d ago

Nothing new, they already stated that it's coming but it won't be available at launch.

Tony-A3874d ago

Agreed. I'm just glad it was addressed in a timely manner instead of ignoring the topic until it got out of hand.

I know I would be upset if my language wasn't supported. Good news for millions of people, even as minor as it seemed to some!

Hakoom3874d ago

i can never use windows or my mobile in arabic.. although iam arabic lol

it just doesnt add up and looks complicated ;x
il stick with english

although this is a nice feature for ppl who dont speak english

wishingW3L3874d ago (Edited 3874d ago )

they asked Yoshida and it only took like a week to add arabic language to the PS4. These guys are on fire!

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Bethesda Needs to Reduce the Gaps Between New Fallout and Elder Scrolls Releases

Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.

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-Foxtrot5h ago

Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.

Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.

When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.

The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.

If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.

We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.

RaidenBlack3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Its not just only Todd not playing ball.
Obsidian have made a name for themselves in delivering stellar RPGs, but most famous once have always been sequels/spin-offs to borrowed IPs like KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Stick of Truth etc.
Obsidian wants to invest more in their own original IPs like Outer Worlds or Pillars of Eternity with Avowed.
Similar to what Bluepoint & inXile wants to do or Kojima is doing (i.e not involving anymore in Konami's IPs).
So yea, even if New Vegas has the most votes from 3D Fallout fans, Obsidian just wants to do their own thing, like any aspiring dev studio and MS is likely currently respecting that.
But a future Fallout game from Obsidian will surely happen. Founder Feargus Urquhart has already stated an year ago that they're eager to make a new Fallout game with Bethesda, New Vegas 2 or otherwise. Urquhart was the director of the very first 1995's Fallout game after all.
And don't forget Brian Fargo and his studio inXile, as Brian Fargo was the director of Fallout's 1988 predecessor: Wasteland

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