Before the weekend, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime appeared on Twitter but didn't quite get the welcome he bargained on. Last Friday, the meat-flavored executive was spammed with Operation Rainfall Tweets as people put pressure to get a Xenoblade, Pandora's Tower or The Last Story announcement.
Reggie took control of the @NintendoAmerica account and engaged with fans via the #Regginator hashtag. After dishing out some bland PR responses to questions, Rainfall mounted a full-scale question assault.
Sadly, Nintendo completely stonewalled any queries concerning the Japanese games, because that's what Nintendo is like. Still, it's a very strong message that there is still a shedload of fans who want these games. Perhaps it'll penetrate some skulls at Nintendo eventually ... not that I'm holing out much hope.
Nintendo's 'Regginator' Bombarded with Operation Rainfall Tweets [Gamepro]
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12:45 PM on 10.24.2011 | 
Seriously, Reggie, three quick ports could make you a good chunk of change and restore a lot of good will. Bite the bullet and get it done.
ALREADY. IN. ENGLISH.
Why these aren't being released in the states is mind boggling... and is directly influencing how many will feel about the wii-u
Already modded my Wii and imported a European copy. I'll do the same whenever Pandora's Tower releases in the UK, and Last Story too. I have no faith that they will ever bring any of them to the US, because Nintendo of America has shown us how little they care.
Which is a shame, I'm 14 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles and I have to say, it's great. Easily the best RPG of this generation, and one of the best I've ever played. Absolutely loving it, worth every dollar, or Euro, even with ridiculous conversion rates and international card fees.
Although Amazon still has that listing for Monado: (Tagline), which I assume must be based on some kind of trademark or rumor or something. It has no release date, but the fact that the page exists surely means something, right? Ignoring that all the screenshots are from the Japanese version.
Import the game
Hack your wii
Hell, just steal the damn thing and PLAY IT NOW
Played very little of it but I'll have the time to play it soon and can just import the rest when they hit now.
Played very little of it but I'll have the time to play it soon and can just import the rest when they hit now.
Had the wii been region free this wouldn't be as big of an issue.
But no nintendo wants to live in a world where region locking does good thing. When all I can think of is that it hurts the consumer from enjoying more games.
At least the 4.3U update made breaking the region lock dirt simple with Letterbomb. At least from a user standpoint, it took me 10 minutes and absolutely no effort, and now I have my Taiko No Tatsujin fix and Xenoblade to enjoy.
But props to those who are.
But in all seriousness I would love to have these games here.
The wii is the only system from nintendo that I have been disappointed by and I really want to regain my faith into one of my childhoods best friend.
I understand that they are worried it won't make profit but as so many here said they should release the games to show that they actually CARE about their fans.
Being English, I'm going to buy Xenoblade, and when they come out over here Last Story and Pandora's Tower. But I feel for you guys in the US, because there's no reason these games shouldn't be localised to you.
GIVE US THE F***ING GAMES!!!
I support what they're about and all, but I think this is where I get off the train of thought. They're obviously getting desperate or something and are slipping into the same troll tropes that they seemed to have wanted to avoid being. Stuff like this is makes cause less then noteworthy, and its no wonder they got stonewalled.
Besides, even if these 3 games come out, then what? Thats it? Fighting to localize 3 games when there's so many games that should come in this direction from Japan seems really short sighted and kind of selfish at this point. No change will happen in the industry if the buck stops there.
Xenoblade alone is godlike, it's a masterpiece that deserves to sell to the biggest audience possible.
It's the best JRPG of this generation hands down and over 100 hours long. It's in the same league as the greats like FF7, FF9, FF6, Xenogears, Skies of Arcadia, Baten Kaitos, Tales of Symphonia etc...
The game has already sold around 100,000 in less than 10 weeks in Europe alone, and North America is the biggest market by FAR.
The game could easily sell over half a million worldwide even with the crappy support Nintendo of America would be expected to give it. The game is done, it's a matter of shifting it to the NTSC region.
People need games, and they need to be able to believe in your next console.
How does that not make sense Reggie?
If it doesn't, then you clearly don't understand how to ride tailcoats nevermind basic business sense.
I'm holding out hope they're preparing (hah) both for a Spring release they're going to...spring on us. Otherwise, British version go!
The big N: There's this company called XSeed that localizes weird little jRPGs, and they seem to be doing OK. Maybe you can learn a thing or two from them.
Two words for you guys: LIMITED RELEASE.
It won't work without modding your Wii. My guess is they're doing it out of principle/fear of breaking their Wii, not because they're too lazy to actually mod it and import a copy. Plus, it's more expensive due to the dollar being low, plus maybe they absolutely hate British accents.
A lot of people just want to buy a legitimate NA copy and support America instead of Europe or Japan too. A lot of people just want Nintendo to man up and release it so they'll see that localizing generally equals money.
I suppose it's safe to assume whoever wanted and could shell out the cash to import already did it, then. I can't blame them for going on, I have four 2011 titles I was/am genuinely excited for that are yet to get a release date in Europe and it kinda blows.
Because not everyone likes to engage with the "dude bro" crowd... and because Genres!
Exactly. Anyone with the means and desire to do so has done it already. The game itself is still hard to find at times, I got lucky and GAME found me a bundle at the last minute, despite them being out of stock in the warehouse. Zavvi is up and down as well, the game is selling like crazy over there.
The big thing here is that we want Nintendo to acknowledge what the fans want, what the people who drive their business want, and they keep ignoring it. I don't think Rainfall will change that, but that seems to be the point.
The rest of us have given up, and modded our Wii's, so now we can just import everything. I'm in that camp, and it was probably the best decision I've made in a long time.
For those who didn't want to import, I really hope it comes out here, because it's worth playing.
They just want Europeans to be forced to pay the higher European cost of games, instead of giving them a cheaper American import option.
Because I'm sure all those minigame collections sold a million copies. And all those slapdash lightgun games. And all those ports of games that are free on the PC but cost 20-40 bucks on the Wii.
You're not getting the point here. I can guarantee at least 1/8th of the games Nintendo allows on the Wii don't break any sales marks whatsoever. Even some of Nintendo's own stuff like Flingsmash don't sell any better than Xenoblade would. It takes no effort on their part, but they still wont do it.
NOA, you're stubborn refusal to deny Wii owners a chance to play what is widely considered to be the best JRPGS comes as a huge disappointment. This is particularly painful given how Xenoblade has already been localized and Wii owner's have been suffering through an 9 month game drought with nothing significant to play up until now with Kirby, Rhythm Heaven, and Zelda's upcoming release.
So do I feel bad for Reggie getting blasted by Operation Rainfull supporters? Absolutely not.