@DKII: That makes no sense. Why wouldn Nintendo not release Disaster in America, where it was first unveiled and FF4 when all the previous FF games were released in America too.
The games had the most hype on the West, but the lack of advertising, lack of hype and ugly organization are preventing this to come here. Announcing a game 2 weeks before release in Japan is obviously a very very bad idea, extremely bad. And judging the possible success of those games in America by seeing the Japanese numbers is the most stupid thing that has ever been done in the history of humanity.
It's like not releasing a JRPG in Japan because it bombed in America, as stupid as that.
Besides Nintendo is posting record profits, so losing a couple of bucks (Not really since Disaster is already fully in English) in translation isn't a bad idea to keep the core fans satisfied. Also who says those games will bomb if Nintendo advertises them properly? (I believe Nintendo purposedly wanted these games to bomb by not hyping them, announcing them 1 week before release, showing gameplay videos 2 days before release and poorly advertising them 1 day or so before release) IMO Reggie doesnt want games with ratings higher than E to be released in America, so forget about the next Zelda games, since Reggie is too scared of releasing a game that has a drop of blood or a bad word with the name of Nintendo on its cover.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
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