I've seen numerous blog and front-page posts about "THE US ISN'T GETTING FATAL FRAME 4" over the last few days, and I'm statrted to get sick of typing the sasme reply over and over, so I'm making this blog to hopefully shut everyone up.
http://www.gamegrep.com/rumor/16143-fatal_frame_iv_is_coming_to_the_us_sometime_soon/
(Please note, this is not my only source, it was just the first one I grabbed because I don't have much time here)
XSEED was asked multiple times if they would publish Fatal Frame 4 in the US. They looked into it, and found out that somebody had already bought the rights, but they couldn't reveal who it was.
Nintendo nor Tecmo has the rights to this game because
somebody else already bought them. They just haven't chosen to reveal who they are yet, or to use the rights yet.
So can we stop it with the sob story blogs?
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besides, the first 2 were the best from what I understand. I enjoyed the short time I had with 1 and need to finish it.
Sorry Gen but you have no case here.
And I already admitted I just grabbed the first link that was handy, this was reported in a couple of places as well. As for your 5 months old comment, I don't really see how that's relevant. If the article was a year+ old, you'd have a point, but it's only been a couple months since XSEED made this statement. This still holds weight.
Collette: Yeah, it wouldn't bode well if we didn't already know that neither of them has the production rights to the game anymore.
In any case, this was mostly about the fact that there were like 6-7+ blogs about this exact same topic in a row for two days running now. I was annoyed and wanted to point out this to all the knee-jerk reactionists who were screaming bloody murder at Nintendo for not publishing this game yet when they don't even have the rights to it anymore.
That's what they did with Disaster, after all.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, Nintendo and Tecmo all but confirmed that it isn't happening, optimism is great but there's a lot of evidence that proves that you're wrong.
And I'm just saying. Since it's not Nintendo or Tecmo, it's likely that one of the smaller Japan-English publishers picked the game up(Atlus, XSEED, NISA, Mastiff, etc.) We know it's not Atlus since they would have announced it by now, and their translation would likely be done by now. NISA is out of the question since they only tend to grab shitty games from GUST and Idea Factory. XSEED isn't it because they said somebody else got it first.
All I'm saying is that it's still very likely that one of the smaller publishers picked this up and is still working on it, and just haven't said anything about it. Most of them don't.