A Super Robot Wars game will get a simultaneous English and Japanese release for the first time ever with SRW 30. Super Robot Wars 30 is the culmination of that fan support.
Eventually, Bandai got the message-people wanted these games in English.
However, fans of the series persevered, translating 18 of the games into fan-translation projects. However, none of the games were particularly commercially successful, and no SRW games were given an English release in almost eight years. They assumed that these original characters would be more popular in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia without lots of background to catch up on. Instead, they feature the so-called Banpresto Originals. The OG games do not contain mecha and characters from popular series such as Mobile Suit Gundam, Evangelion, etc. Instead, in the 2000s, they attempted to penetrate the market with their series of OG or Original Generation games. Related: Is Super Robot Wars 30 a Gundam Game? In addition, many of the shows, games, and films referenced in the SRW had never been released commercially outside of Japan, so they didn’t believe there was enough familiarity with them to release mainline games. The reason for the lack of English releases was that developers Banpresto and Publisher’s BANDAI NAMCO didn’t believe there was a market for the base Super Robot Wars games in the west.
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