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Nintendo fans launching massive campaign to get Wii RPGs localized, Reggie laughs
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Pretty likely, anyway.
Here's the information from the NeoGAF, if you care to help.
I'd like to see this happen, but I have to be realistic: it's not bloody likely.
Xenoblade
Gorgeous looking action RPG made by members of the Xenosaga team.
Amazing music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNR-wsFAfiU
Pandora's Tower: Until I Return To Your Side
Interesting looking RPG about a cursed woman. Gorgeous art design.
The Last Story
Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu. Need more be said?
Action RPG, sort of.
Good luck, Nintendo fans.
You'll need it.
Here's the information from the NeoGAF, if you care to help.
Mockingbird wrote:There is an increasingly growing campaign, spanning multiple forums and gaming sites (NeoGaf, IGN, Kotaku, Destructoid, Nintendoeverything, and more), trying to get Nintendo to listen up and release Xenoblade (also known as Monado: Beginning of the World), The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower in the U.S.
The campaign includes snail mail writing, e-mail, phone calls, facebook, and twitter and the turn-out has been beyond all expectations thus far. Comments on Nintendo's Facebook had passed 1,300 in just 24 hours. (see below on how to contribute to this.)
But actions speak louder than words, so to convey that Nintendo fans really want this, people have decided to show for it by pre-ordering on amazon -- hoping to get it to the #1 sales rank in video games from #12,000+
Results:
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #30 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#1 in Video Games > Wii > Action
#5 in Video Games > Wii > All Games
See this too: http://666kb.com/i/bunsqwbujfsk3nuqf.gif
So the deal is this, please pre-order it to help get it released in the U.S. Remember: actions speak louder than words.
Pre-Order: http://www.amazon.com/Monado-Beginning-World-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B002IM1MYG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309018899&sr=8-1
It costs nothing to pre-order! also, if the game does come out, the MSRP will surely drop to $49.99.
If you don't intend to buy the game, don't pre-order just to cancel, and you absolutely should not order more than one copy just to inflate the numbers. It'll cause the campaign to backfire.
Update #1 on amazon sales rank:
Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#16 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#1 in Video Games > Wii > Action
#3 in Video Games > Wii > All Games
Update #2 on amazon sales rank (Saturday, June 25, 2011. 10:24 am):
Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#9 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#1 in Video Games > Wii > Action
#1 in Video Games > Wii > All Games
Snail-Mail Campaign:
Let them know on Facebook/Twitter:
http://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/posts/162340667167231?notif_t=like
http://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica
How it the campaign came about:
2008: Nintendo of america stops localizing select games from Japan. Fans found this questionable, but decided to wait it out a bit.
June 2009: Nintendo of america announced Monado: Beginning of the World for release in North america. Monolithsoft fans rejoiced and gave out a small amount of forgiveness over their trespasses in 2008.
May 2010: Monado: Beginning of the World is released as Xenoblade in Japan to completely outstanding reviews and overwhelmingly positive impressions on Gaf and 2-ch. Word of mouth of the high quality of the game spread and gave the game some decent legs. North american fans eagerly anticipate the release date reveal during E3 2010.
June 2010: During E3 2010, Nintendo had no news / announcements regarding Xenoblade in the U.S. a whole year had passed since E3 2009 -- where Xenoblade was announced for a US release. Nintendo fans grow slightly worried but still very hopeful for an announcement later in the year. Meanwhile, many other games, such as The Last Story and Reginleiv, were left unannounced as well.
June 8, 2011: at the end of Nintendo's E3 2011 press conference, Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower were still left out of the upcoming release list. With the end of the Wii's life-span fast approaching, Nintendo fans lost almost all hope for a release of the three J-RPGS.
June 22, 2011: IGN user themightyme, proposes "Operation: Rainfall," a campaign to get Nintendo's attention and inform them that Nintendo fans are fed up and want Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower.
June 23, 2011: Mathieu Minel, marketing manager of Nintendo France revealed that "Nintendo of Europe wanted to show Xenoblade Chronicles at E3 2011, but Nintendo of America wouldn't let them because they didn't want to show products they aren't planning to sell." (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/26928). Nintendo fans start to remove the knives from their backs.
June 24, 2011: Clinging to the last bastion of hope, many Nintendo fans started to gather and lend their voice for operation: rainfall.
Links
Operation: Rainfall (where it started) http://boards.ign.com/nintendo_wii_lobby/b8270/203345328/p1
Coverage of Operation Rainfall:
http://kotaku.com/5815447/how-badly-do-you-want-the-last-story-pandoras-tower-and-xenoblade-for-wii
http://www.destructoid.com/letter-writing-campaign-for-last-story-pandora-s-tower-204505.phtml
I'd like to see this happen, but I have to be realistic: it's not bloody likely.
Xenoblade
Gorgeous looking action RPG made by members of the Xenosaga team.
Amazing music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNR-wsFAfiU
Pandora's Tower: Until I Return To Your Side
Interesting looking RPG about a cursed woman. Gorgeous art design.
The Last Story
Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu. Need more be said?
Action RPG, sort of.
Good luck, Nintendo fans.
You'll need it.
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Basically, all the Mature-rated Wii games come in black. Same for DS stuff too.
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"Did ya hear the one about the mussel that wanted to purchase Valve? Seems like the bivalve had a juicy offer on the table but the company flat-out refused and decided to immediately clam up!"
What's amazing is that the game is sitting pretty at number 9 in amazon's top 100 video games bestsellers list right now
who the hell cares? I seriously doubt they wouldn't make up the localization costs, especially for the ones that are already being localized for EU.
Part of the reason for bad sales would also be due to piss poor marketing (or none, which is more likely).
Yes, I know it supposedly ended up sucking
No, I don't care. That was one of my most anticipated Wii games.
Fortunately, these aren't made by Nintendo, so if these do get localized, you get to support developers instead. I've never been a big Nintendo fan, but the Gamecube era won me back a little. Then their treatment of the Wii community made me lose interest again.
It would be great if word got out to some more of the news sites.
EDIT: Heck, post it to 4chan. Bound to round up some people there.
In the mean time, listen to my favorite track from Xenoblade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweRl4LZlmo
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I actually want to play Pandora's Tower most.
It's going to be sad if they just quietly pull the game off Amazon's listing.
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I did it! I tipped the scales!
Here's hoping for some positive results this time.
But when it comes down to it, even if it doesn't come out here I still plan on importing a PAL copy, so I can't really get too worked up over this. Though I guess it'd be nice to save the extra money it'll cost to import it.
Hell, I'm just hoping they get a PAL version of Pandora's Tower, since they seem to be more on the ball about this shit, then I can just import all three.
Me too. I'm already set to play import games.
BTW, I posted this in the sales thread since people were talking about the game, but I really think this ought to be in the OP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CUNNyNK-4w
I can't imagine watching this video and not being sold on the game. Although I'm pretty sure it's full of spoilers, it's mostly gorgeous environments and music.
Is there even an English speaking Growlanser "community"?
I mean, I love the series, but basically the entire US presence is a fairly expensive limited run Working Designs release, and then the worst game in the series.
www.growlanser-realm.com
There's... 10 of us? Maybe 20.
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Lovely game, but so rare nowadays (and with no rereleases) it might as well have never been released here either
No, that would involve doing something.
And fans responded by 100% fan-translating the game.
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Couldn't they just take a crate of game discs from the UK and just sell it in the US?
region lockouts and all that jazz.
But the hard work is done as far as localizing with the translation and all that. All they'd have to do is make a disc that is the US region and sell it.
Seriously, all the work is done. There is no way they wouldn't make money on Xenoblade. They wouldn't even have to advertise really. It's gonna be niche no matter what and the people who will buy it already know about it and will buy it.
Just burn those damn discs and put them in stores.
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Damn.
Not only are they still being done, Nintendo is on the forefront of anal retentiveness about it by now starting to do it on handhelds.