As reported on Siliconera, JAST USA is looking into the possibility of bringing out Steins;Gate in English. JAST USA founder, Peter Payne, stated that it’s complicated as there are two different companies involved, i.e. Nitroplus and 5pb, and we need the agreement of both.”

In a previous interview with Siliconera, Payne said that Nitroplus would like us to publish a title, wait two years to see how the sales are, then decide the next title to publish. But that would be too slow for JAST USA and for their customers, so they are pushing Nitroplus to allow them to release more games, several of which have been announced and published in the 2011-2012 game catalogue.

JAST USA is planning to release Nitroplus’ Saya no Uta and Hanachirasu adult games before this year’s Anime Expo convention. Steins;Gate would be harder to license due to the fact that it’s a collaboration between Nitroplus and 5pb.

President of 5pb is nice, I met him before, and I don’t think there would be any problems with the licensing of an English release.. Hopefully money issue(as to which company would get more of the profit) wouldn’t get in the way of the licensing :D.

Fingers crossed. The mad scientist in all of us would want an English release!