Nintendo Crushes Fans' Hopes for Notable Wii Localizations
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Anyone else have Catherine flashbacks when they read Nintendo's statement? It was said that there were no plans to release that in the West at the time of the statement too.
Hello?!? I'm still waiting on Last Window!! And I was actually relatively excited for Pandora's Tower! FU2, Nintendo!!!!
PS: Anyone who still believes that Nintendo will release Mother 3 in USA is living in a fantasy world. Where there's cake.
PS: Anyone who still believes that Nintendo will release Mother 3 in USA is living in a fantasy world. Where there's cake.
Nintendo should try it again, then. See if the consumers back their mouths with their money, or if they were just screwing around. That way, if fans beg for it again in the future, Nintendo can point to the failure and say, "We tried to give you what you wanted, you obviously didn't really want it. So yeah, screw off."Aiddon said:
I'm saying this a second time, because apparently people didn't hear me the first time.itsmeyouidiot said:
Well fuck you too Nintendo, the whole Wii console cycle was your way of saying 15 years of hard loyalty came off as clingy. I can take a hint and give you your space. You have fun with your casual flings, but I'm seeing others consoles and and they make me happy.
So let me get this straight: Nintendo has gotten beaten up by hardcore gamers for several years now for below average games and gimmicky controls that did little to advance the gaming world. Nintendo has made games such as Xenoblade and Last Story that are known as being great games that would increase Nintendo's reputation with gamers in other parts of the world. North America, which has to be at least the second largest, if not the largest market Nintendo has, wants these games, to the point that they launched a campaign to make one of them the most preordered game on Amazon. All Nintendo would have to do is translate the already completed and critically acclaimed games into English and North American gamers would be ecstatic and Nintendo would make more money on a property they already know will do well. And Nintendo looks at all of this...and decides to give North American gamers the middle finger.
This makes no sense to me from a PR perspective or a business perspective. It was handled without grace or class, and phrased in a way to get people excited only to have them get let down. And they would definitively make money from the deal. What am I missing here?
In all seriousness, stuff like this makes me want to break my Wii with a Sledgehammer (well, that, and the failure that is the Conduit that my friend recently lent to me. Last time I trust him on a game EVER)
This makes no sense to me from a PR perspective or a business perspective. It was handled without grace or class, and phrased in a way to get people excited only to have them get let down. And they would definitively make money from the deal. What am I missing here?
In all seriousness, stuff like this makes me want to break my Wii with a Sledgehammer (well, that, and the failure that is the Conduit that my friend recently lent to me. Last time I trust him on a game EVER)
Read the quote from the Facebook page. They never said they "Might" localize games. They said they have no plans for it now and hinted that they would most likely not in the future. Given their history, that's not a big stretch (see also: Mother 3). Before you accuse good writers of using scare tactics, look at the facts and see if their conclusions make sense. When they do, stop yourself from appearing like a jerk by quoting yourself to get a message across with which no one else agrees. (Not trying to be rude, for I obviously have nothing personal against you, but it does seem odd you would feel a need to quote yourself...)itsmeyouidiot said:
Journalists aren't supposed to reach conclusions. That's what editorials are for.
When they said "never say never" they presumably meant that some time in the future, it could be that these three games are localized. At this point, the best option would be to keep pressuring Nintendo, and maybe at E3 next year we'll see these games.
When they said "never say never" they presumably meant that some time in the future, it could be that these three games are localized. At this point, the best option would be to keep pressuring Nintendo, and maybe at E3 next year we'll see these games.
Well I can't say I'm surprised :/
Lately, it seems like Nintendo just loves making bad decisions.
This is why I'm gonna save up, find a job in and move to japan. Then I'm gonna get language lessons, so i can read kanji comfortably, beffore finally buying my copy of "Love Plus", and marrying my VGF
Lately, it seems like Nintendo just loves making bad decisions.
This is why I'm gonna save up, find a job in and move to japan. Then I'm gonna get language lessons, so i can read kanji comfortably, beffore finally buying my copy of "Love Plus", and marrying my VGF
Not true with Nintendo, not true at all. We see this kind of thing said a lot and that gamers wouldn't buy the games even if they WERE released anyway and neither is strictly true at all. In this case the cost of localisation is already done for the EU(UK)so just what risk would there be for Ninty of America? Another thing to remember is the list of other games we saw in the UK from them that the US hasn't-the obvious one being DisasterGrungyMunchy said:
oC which only failed to appear in the US because Reggie didn't like it or it's audio! It came out in English for the UK even without advertising or being stocked everywhere so why are Ninty EU happy to do this while the US isn't>? The EU has a t5on of languages to cope with and includes both languages the US would need most AND the two for Canada! What's the issue here unless, like before, it's someone at Ninty US that simply doesn't think these games will appeal to ANY US gamer as they don't fancy them themselves.Christ knows quite what their reason is but there's absolutely NO reason to think a limited run of 50 to 200,000 copies wouldn't be a good release number ensured to sell out pretty quickly and with localisation done that would be it-a run of discs and storing them while you order them at full retail. Again, the cost to risk is minimal and compared to the brownie points they'd get is absolutely nothing and I fail to see a good reason for them not to allow the fans their head on this one-all they're now doing is risking more people modding their Wii and, in this case, totally because they're being out of order.
Add all these jrpgs to D
oC and Fatal Frame4 this generation and al those to the likes of Mother etc and a pattern of Ninty being a bit off with US gamers is clear and it needs looking at and we shouldn't start saying it's anything LIKE gamers' fault-not this time and not in this case because it plainly isn't true. no risk to Ninty of America, none at all. Having already done battle with Sega over seemingly EVERY and ANY western release of Yakuza I know how blind Japanese companies can be to Western fans of their series but as a platform holder Nintendo have a bigger picture to look at and building brand loyalty should be more important to them but, like making life better for third party devs and publishers, it doesn't seem ike they think it's important to treat loyal gamers with ANY respect. They won't release these but EXPECT us all to buy a 3DS just because they slapped a little make up and 3D on OoT? Great game, sure, but anyone of the five people who didn't play it originally(and their kids, if they're like me) will have played it on VC by now so a full retail release of one of their own games we all played already is a higher priority than releasing actual new content? I find it hard to see Nintendo as anything but a little out of touch and a little precious about their own developed franchises compared to those they publish at home.Bottom line?This sucks and if they had a decent reason we'd have heard it and be, kind of, agreeing by now. Jesus, for the good PR tgey could even take a TINY hit over these but they won't and it stinks when Wii is crying out for decent games.
I'm a UK ganer so am lucky this time(not usually, mind) but I still believe these games would be profitable in the US/Canada-why on Earth wouldn't they be?
This is the reason my Wii has 6 times less games then my Xbox360 and PS3. I mean really, the only good Wii games are Monster Hunter and the first party games. I had to get up and look to see if there is anything besides Monster Hunter that I actually like, lol.
not surprising. ever since the first consoles to ever come out from nintendo localization was a huge issue for them. they never managed to do it right and actually give western audiences the chance to play many games. This is just another log on a long road.
Hard to believe that the hardware branch of this company is one of the biggest industry innovators when the publishing branch is archaic beyond all reason.