And your argument appears to be:Crono1973 said:Your argument appears to be:I forgot said:Sorry, but you need to come up with a better argument. That's next to impossible because NOA already knows that Mario and Zelda are high selling franchises. You're using a hypothetical situation that has zero chance of ever happening.Crono1973 said:If NOA said "We aren't going to release Skyward Sword or the next Mario game in America", NOJ would almost certainly overrule them. Don't you agree?I forgot said:Obviously, that depends. If it was the internal teams developing games not doing their jobs, certainly so but this is localization; they're leaving it to their other offices to decide if it'll sell there because they don't know. NOJ doesn't decide if it's okay to have it in Europe, but not America or maybe Australia and not South Africa. That's because that's the shit they let their divisions worry about while they worry about their own country and things of a much more higher priority like developing their hardware and software.Crono1973 said:Yes but when one branch doesn't do it's job, would you sit on your hands or would you (as the head of the company) make changes?I forgot said:No, if I run a company with separate branches, I'd expect them to do their job while I do mine. Much like the developers expect publishers and marketers to do their jobs.Crono1973 said:So if I run a company with separate branches and one of the branches make a very bad decision, should I just say "Oh well, not my problem"?I forgot said:I like it that for once, someone criticized a subsidiary rather than the broad company. I hate it when people blame Nintendo for something that only their subsidiaries are responsible for. Nintendo of Europe is responsible for European localization, NOA for American, etc., etc. So if a game isn't localized, like Mother 3, that's not Nintendo's fault but their subsidiaries whose decision it is to localize and publish them.
Nintendo of Japan can overrule Nintendo of America and if it doesn't, then it is as much to blame as NOA is. You think Reggie got his job without the approval of Nintendo of Japan?
Nintendo of Japan has the last word so a bad decision make by NOA but not reversed by NOJ still falls on both of their shoulders, not just NOA.
"NOJ doesn't get involved with what games are released in other regions"
My example was to show that NOJ CAN get involved and since they can, they should in cases like this where public outrage is becoming severe. If they refuse to get involved then they are just as much to blame as NOA.
It doesn't matter though, I don't really care who YOU blame, I know that both NOA and NOJ are responsible for those games not being released here.
"NOJ should get involved because I said so"
Your example doesn't show anything, except naivety in how things work. Your reason to blame and believe that this is the fault of the whole damn company is because of some naive idea that NOJ should be in charge of something that they hired a division to do for them which makes about as much sense as the heads of the company getting involved with Nintendo of Europe's marketing or voice acting efforts.