 The game did not sell as well as producer Masanori Takeuchi expected.FromSoftware had the intent for worldwide localization, with a targeted North American release for 2005 with competitive Xbox Live multiplayer modes, and had gotten to the point of making available a secret playable demo of the Japanese version through a demo disc in issue 39 of "Official Xbox Magazine".FromSoftware did not comment immediately on the reason the localization was canceled.