At this year's Anime Expo NIS America held a panel in which it talked about its upcoming releases and broke down the localization process. 411mania was on hand to see what the publisher had to say.

"We're releasing Sakura Wars V first because we figured it's the last version that came out and it's obviously the most polished, at least battle system-wise. And it's something that's easier for Sony [to] accept and release a game like [Sakura Wars V], because previously Sony didn't like games that had dating sim aspects. They thought it might not be a suitable game for the PlayStation brand but they're actually happy about Sakura Wars now ever since they saw the actual game. So, if this one does well I think we'll be able to bring out all the various others - Sakura Wars IV and III and... I don't know about II and I. Yeah, hopefully we can bring out all the other games too."

frostyhudson via 411mania.com »