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Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

Check this http://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/posts/162340667167231?notif_t=like out. Everybody is bombarding the facebook page of Nintendo to bring us the unlocalized gems like Xenoblade, Last Story and Pandora's Tower. I will post a few times a day, would be nice if you guys joined as well!

Posted: Jun 24 2011 11:12 pm

They make a petition for everything these days and I've never once heard any instance where it was successful.

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

Well, its still fun to bombard the official Nintendo page with messages that have nothing to do with Sonic's anniversary.

Posted: Jun 25 2011 03:06 am

A petition! Because I think that worked once.

Posted: Jun 25 2011 03:24 am

Hey, I'm still fucking waiting for Reginleiv.

Posted: Jun 25 2011 06:09 am

Xenoblade is supposedly almost definitely coming over.

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

I wrote that I wanted Reginleiv as well. Nintendo of France confirmed during E3 that the could not show Xenoblade there since Nintendo of America is not going to sell it, which means it is coming out in Europa, but not in North America unfortunately. I am european myself, but I'm just fed-up with the terrible localization policy of Nintendo in general, which is why I joined this campaign.

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

It's crazy that Xenoblade/Monado: Beginning of the World is now ranked the following on Amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/Monado-Beginning-World-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B002IM1MYG/ref=zg_bs_14218901_6

#1 in Video Games > Wii > Action
#6 in Video Games > Wii > All Games

Maybe this will get Nintendo of America's attention. Or at least Amazon's which will in turn cause them to contact Nintendo directly to know when it's coming so they can sell it after getting these pre-orders.

Posted: Jun 25 2011 09:49 am

It's funny how inept Nintendo of America is. Nintendo of America isn't burdened with tasks like hardware development or software development, their entire job is localization, distribution, and promotion. And yet, when it's time for E3, Nintendo of America rarely makes any annoucements. They let Shiggy and Iwata show off whatever they want, and that's it. The only notable exception in recent years was NOA's distribution of Dragon Quest IX.

NOA has an advantage, in that there are a TON of unlocalized games they could be dumping on us right now before Wii U launches next spring, if they had any idea what they were doing.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

That's kind of sad, honestly.

Posted: Jun 25 2011 11:16 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

It's funny how inept Nintendo of America is. Nintendo of America isn't burdened with tasks like hardware development or software development, their entire job is localization, distribution, and promotion. And yet, when it's time for E3, Nintendo of America rarely makes any annoucements. They let Shiggy and Iwata show off whatever they want, and that's it. The only notable exception in recent years was NOA's distribution of Dragon Quest IX.

NOA has an advantage, in that there are a TON of unlocalized games they could be dumping on us right now before Wii U launches next spring, if they had any idea what they were doing.

Haven't they been somewhat inept in the past, Syd? Don't you guys remember their ridiculous censorship policies?

Posted: Jun 25 2011 12:55 pm

Does NOA make the decision which games get localized and which don't? Or do they just distribute and promote the games that Nintendo of Japan tells them to?

Posted: Jun 25 2011 01:02 pm

Apparently, Xenoblade is being localized and definitely coming over, this one dude on Kotaku e-mailed Nintendo and got this response...

NOA wrote:

Thanks for contacting us. According to our information, Xenoblade has been officially announced for release here in the Americas. It will be titled, Monado: Beginning of the World. However, it hasn't been given a release date yet. When it is, our website's Game Guide ([www.nintendo.com] will be the best place to find it. Once there, use the questions on the left to filter based on system, genre, online play, etc.

When you have narrowed your search, click on the game's title to see all the available information. If what you seek is not yet available, please check back later. When there is new information to share on announced games or other upcoming products, our website is the best official source!

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

Well, that is not the same as I have heard. It is true that the game was announced a few years ago, but representatives for Nintendo of France said specifically that they could not show the game at E3, because Nintendo of America was not planning to release it.

By the way, the game is now ranked at amazon.com as

#1 in Video Games > Wii > Action
#1 in Video Games > Wii > All Games
#4 in Video Games > All Games.

And people say there is no marked for these games?

Posted: Jun 25 2011 03:04 pm

I want Trace Memory 2, dammit.

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

Syd Lexia wrote:

I want Trace Memory 2, dammit.

Yeah, that game is awesome. What I hope is that if this campaign get enough attention, it will be more difficult for Nintendo to drop great games like Trace Memory 2 in the future. I mean, Sony localize more or less all their games, and Nintendo is starved for content - it should be a no-brainer to bring these titles out, and still they hesitate.

Posted: Jun 25 2011 07:18 pm

Hey, I just remembered, they still need to release Fatal Frame IV.

Posted: Jun 25 2011 08:27 pm

Fatal Frame IV will never happen, sadly. But if you import the disc, you can softmod your Wii to run the game with a translation patch. Bad news is that the disc goes for almost $100 on eBay. I've been meaning to softmod my Wii for awhile now, and haven't gotten around to it. I have picked up several import titles anyway though, including Captain Rainbow, which I anticipate will be translated.

Posted: Jun 26 2011 05:32 am

Isn't soft modding a Wii dangerous? Like if you buy a new game and the update code is on the disk and bricks your console once it detects the mods?

I'll admit the last I looked in to modding was the whole Twilight Princess breakthrough so I'm probably way out of date here.

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

There is really no excuse for not bringing Fatal Frame 4 to western markets, and its another one of those situations that make me really fed-up with Nintendos abysmal localization efforts.

Btw, Monado is the number 1 best-selling videogame at amazon.com right now! And has been so for about a day, pretty impressive stuff.

Posted: Jun 26 2011 12:30 pm

They should only release Skyward Sword in Japan just to piss everyone off.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

It would cause mass suicide.

And I'd laugh my tits off.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

Lol, Woodzy.

Posted: Jun 26 2011 02:18 pm

They aren't going to release games like this in America because there isn't any demand for it here.

Posted: Jun 26 2011 03:34 pm

There's no demand for YOUR MOM!