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I knew a shitstorm was brewing but I had no idea who it would land on. Nintendo it would seem is today's recipient. Oh joy! I began today like any other checking Dtoid and was I in for a shock.

Nintendo of America gave a somewhat direct statement on Xenogears/Monado and several other aforementioned titles were not being considered for localization at the moment. This didn't bother in the slightest because I had already played them and they are really nothing special in my opinion but I knew most had not so I began to have some idea on what might transpire.

To the comments aka 'What the derp?'

They were too funny. What couldv'e been a mature discussion on the topic quickly erupted into a shortbus full of window-lickers. I believe the term "Pretendo" has a whole new meaning to me now. What was funny at the beginning had grown to become almost embarassing to read. Jim Sterling was not included in the comments at all. To my surprise. Quite refreshing it was.

But enough of that nonsense...

The real question here is why should NoA bring these supposedly 'hardcore' *shudder* games to the Wii when there is no evidence to support it? Time and time again titles of this caliber have graced the Wii only to garner much hype and praise from the start but when the time came to purchase the game most simply waited until it was lowered in price, bought used, pirated or just didn't buy it because of random excuses.

Why should Nintendo of America use what limited resources they have because of a promise of purchase made by online petitioners?

These are questions that have easy answers.



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"Why should Nintendo of America use what limited resources they have because of a promise of purchase made by online petitioners?

I'm sorry, what?
I come from Europe and will be getting these, so please don't mistake what I'm about to say as aggravated frustration:

You sound like a child sat on his fathers thrown. Get off your high horse, your majesty.

"What could have been a mature conversation... I've played them already anyway, nananana! THEY SUCK! JIM STERLING. Why should Nintendo bring these to America!"
I'll tell you why; Because they're going to the trouble of bring it over here, which will require ten times more effort and work. They have things like multiple translations to consider. We should know, they've use that excuse on us all the time. It's the reason we get titles like Kirby's Epic yarn and Mario Kart Wii six months later than the rest of the world.

There's nothing stopping Nintendo from bringing it to American shores. Just feigned tabloid scandal and an excuse to get everyone talking about their product.
You bring up some good points, like:...
A. Nintendo doesn't have limited resources. This notion is whack.

B. If they are catering their next console to a demographic they spent the past 6 years telling to fuck off, you would think some THIS ERA good will could be built.

C. Atlus does all this and more, if Atlus can do it, then so can Nintendo. NOA in particular seems to be ran purely off the "can we sell it on Oprah and Ellen" mindset.

D. If Nintendo isn't going to do it, they need to at least free it the hell up so that Atlus, XSeed, or NIS can. With it being a Nintendo exclusive publishing deal, like Fatal Frame 4, this means Nintendo is ultimately the gatekeepers to content they didn't even make.

E. If this was Sony, you know you would be all over pointing out how wrong and stupid it is.
I'm sorry, what is your point? The games in question are already made and a few of them are heading for Europe...as in, currently localized in English. So the bigger question is....What is Nintendo of America doing? It's clear that they are incompetent and are sitting around collecting a pay check, while giving pretty speeches at E3. This is NOT the first time NoA has missed the USA boat of making money. But after this situation, it will be the last time.

Secondly. Paragraphs. Please learn to use them.
This blogging thing?

Don't do it again.

You're not even a good comment troll.
Why do you hate paragraphs? You always write like this. I'm sorry, but it's hard to read.
Like dude I do not know what to say, but that you might want to look at you blog posts before you publish them. ( I learned that the hard way )

and BTW Nintendo has TONS of money after the wii, but if they shank the only people willing to deal with the wii's casual games they are not going to have a fan basis when the wii u comes out.
You are, seriously, a fan boy of the worst order. Nintendo of America has pretty much told you to shut the fuck up and eat what we give you - and you DEFEND them for doing so.

EVEN IF the games didn't sell well, bringing them to America would HUGELY help their image. They could even intentionally under-produce the games like they did with that lazy as hell Super Mario All Stars release, build the demand to extreme proportion, and then release more copies to make the game profitable.

And yeah - Nintendo of America has more money than God. There is no excuse, other than they just don't care about us anymore. They just flat out don't care about us anymore.

If they want people to feel confident about the Wii U, they should probably make the Wii go out with a bang. Instead, it's going out with a whimper.
In this thread: people schooling Dv8thwonder.
Damn, it happened so violently I almost feel sorry for the little fella. Then again, he did say everyone affected by the PSN hack deserved it for buying Sony so... yeah...

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