Despite being fully localized in English, the game was not released outside of Asia. According to a Dead or Alive community manager on Facebook, this was related to the West's concerns over women in the video game industry.

Do you know many issues happening in video game industry with regard to how to treat female in video game industry? We do not want to talk those things here. But certainly we have gone through in last year or two to come to our decision. Thank you.

The playable characters in the base game were decided via an online poll featuring all of the female (Team Ninja) characters from Dead or Alive 5. The top 9 characters were added to the final roster. However, the reoccurring lead characters Tina and Lisa were not among the winning casts.