This kind of gives them a convenient out, doesn't it? I remember seeing lots of copies of DoAX2 in best buy bins for like 10 bux.
Well that was on the xbox and not the Pervstation.
I'm sure DoAX3 would sell better than 2 and I doubt it cost that much to make. Besides, Tecmo never seems to not localize anything. Plus, I'm sure they could make even more money from DLC. So I do think the reason they aren't planning to bring it out is fear of some blowback.
Which is stupid because I don't anyone really cares about a niche game like this and at the end of the day I really think supposed SJWs are more concerned with portrayals in games that would otherwise appeal to women. Not things that from the get go are already perv games. The problem is Assassin's Creed not being inclusive to women, not a pornn game.
I think the big (or should that be 'little'?

) problem is the Marie Rose character, who is the loli-maid character added into DOA5U/LR. The character looks way, way too much like a little girl. Koei Tecmo ran a poll to see which characters people wanted in the game in Japan, and naturally this character -and Honoka, who is basically Marie Rose with humongous breasts- topped the chart and are the poster characters for the game. The rest of the characters chosen were all the Japanese characters, with Helena being the lone non-Asian in the game.
Speculation was that Koei Tecmo was going to release a different version in the west, without Marie Rose and with the other non-Asian characters added in. For whatever reason, this game only has like nine characters. Koei tends to go nutso with DLC in their games so I'm sure that the rest of the characters will be released as DLC...so it still wouldn't surprise me if the game gets a western release after more characters are completed and they swap out characters as DLC or whatever.
This is also ignoring the fact that DOAX is pretty boring and really is nothing more than "TITTIES LOL" the game. The volleyball sucks. But not releasing this here is a head-scratcher to me since DOA5 has all the same stuff already.