[Mini Update: People seem to think this story is "wrong" because Nintendo is sticking to a story it's spun before. That's as well as may be, but it's on Nintendo's head. The fact is, Nintendo customer support reconfirmed the game's North American release. If Nintendo of America doesn't want to fulfill that promise, that's on Nintendo's head. Furthermore, I invite Nintendo to refute the claim of its rep by saying "Xenoblade is not confirmed for a North American release." I'm not going to do that for them.
Grow some balls and tell us if this isn't happening, NoA.]
Nintendo has confirmed that it will definitely be releasing the long-awaited Wii roleplayer Xenoblade in North America, where it will have its old name, Monado: Beginning of the World. This is at least according to a Nintendo customer support response given to one of our readers, Jonathan.
Xenoblade was already confirmed for Europe, but Europeans have something extra to gloat about -- they'll be getting The Last Story in 2012. That's what Nintendo France said, without any ambiguity: "Xenoblade will arrive after the holidays on Wii, like The Last Story in 2012."
Right now, the Wii has four potentially exciting games it could localize from Japan -- The Last Story, Xenoblade, Pandora's Tower and Earth Seeker. That Nintendo has dragged its feet with any of these titles for so long, while the Wii stagnates and does nothing, continues to confuse me.
Typically, not even the most stupid company gives up on their current console with a little under a year left to go before their next one launches. Nintendo appears to be acting turbo-stupid in this instance.
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9:00 AM on 06.26.2011 | 
*Kisses Jim, strips off clothes, runs around house naked!*
God...I love being European.
...If you take this away from me Nintendo.....It's on -_-.
And I guess congratulations to all of us, Europeans, for also getting Last Story. With that in mind, it seems increasingly likely that US will get it too
Soooo, this means that Europe will be seeing Xenoblade in 2012 as opposed to the earlier mentioned 2011? Damn, I was all hyped up for Xenoblade being my GOTY of '11. XD
*cries tears of joy*
Last Story, Xenoblade and Solatorobo are all coming to Europe now. All that's missing now is Earth Seeker, come on NOE, keep the momentum going!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrOjEAuTSI
That's FIVE Wii exclusives that I would pre-order instantly.
HAHAHAHAHA oh god I gave my Wii away at Christmas.
Goddammit.
This is why gaming is not fun anymore. The amount of lies from these companies is way out of control. For months Nintendo said we will remake to be distributed outside Japan. I almost bought a Japanese Wii just to play this game... Sorry I wont buy it now just on principle. I have had it with JAPANESE LIES.
...but yeah, feel free to bring it on over NoA.
I love nintendo going were all about the core gamer yet they aren't actively bringing these games over.
For anyone still petitioning Nintendo on these: Be positive. It's easy to complain about bad decisions, but PR, marketing, and execs are far more likely to take something into consideration if you talk not about how dumb they'd be not to do something, but how awesome they'd be if they *would*.
Jim, It's me, Jonathan. I think you might have gone a little carried away with the story here from the e-mail I shot to you. Xenoblade/Monado didn't show up at E3 2011 due to Nintendo of America stonewalling Nintendo of Europe, stating that they weren't going to feature NoE's game if they weren't planning on selling it. http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/26928
PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE amend this article! I don't want wind taken out of Operation Rainfall's sails! Others have gotten the same e-mail as me from Nintendo about Monado a few days ago.
Xenoblade doesn't look that interesting to me tbh.
Still have my fingers crossed that Earth seeker is going anywhere outside of japan.
Doesn't mean it's coming out at all, Nintendo's responses are simply that it has been announced.
Monado: Beginning of the World is number 1 in the top 100 bestsellers in videogames, ALL videogames.
Damn.
As for Xenoblade...Woohoo! :D
As much as I want Pandora's Tower and Earth Seeker, I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm more than excited that I'll be able to play The Last Story and Xenoblade. (Even though normally I wouldn't say giving me an opportunity to buy something should be considered a gift, in this case it would be.)
So happy right now! :D
Also, I'm guessing they caught wind that they'd be receiving 10,000 letters, so they decided to let this info out before that happened. :)
They have to put it in english to put it out in the EU so it's only a matter of time.
I can't think of a single game worth having that we've got that the US hasn't.
Fucking Europe.
I might have to dust off the old Wii! Seriously, though, we're halfway (sorta) there!
Don't you DARE sully the name of our Xenoblade. >:I
Yes. It should make you think of Xenogears because that poops on everything else.
Now the one I'm really excited for is Pandora's Tower.
Between this and solatorobo Looks like its going to be a good last year for the old Nintendo console/handheld. Better to go out with a bang than a whimper .... I just wish we had gotten awesome games like this .... like a year or two ago.