JTurner82 on 08 April 2009
| mike_intellivision said: Two questions 1. Who makes decisions on what Nintendo games get localized? Reggie said it was NCL not NOA. That means the "anger" (frustration) would be more appropriately pointed across the Pacific than to the US West Coast. 2. Is there really a market for this game? If the VGC sales data is accurate, the game sold roughly 80k in Japan. If it were to sell at the same proportion in the Americas, it would sell 228k. Of the two dozen Nintendo published games that have been out for more than a few weeks in the US, only Battalion Wars 2 (0.12M), DK Barrell Blast (0.18M -- it would have done so much more and been so much better on the GC), Wario Land Shake It (0.22M) and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (0.24M) have sold at or below that range. And all have greater name recognition in this market than Fatal Frame -- and is not the American market thought to be more oriented toward less-intensive games than the Japanese market? (Using the 90 percent rule, we are talking about sales of just a tick over 200,000 in the US.) Mike from Morgantown I still feel there is more here than meets the eye. |
There are many sides to this story all right.
Anyway, as much as this news irks me, I'm not throwing away my Wii console or my Nintendo fanboyishness. There are still other games coming for the console that intrigue my interest (two of which, Cursed Mountain and Silent Hill, both are in the same vein as this title) as well as some JPRGs to be had, so that'll help cushion the disappointment. I'm keeping my expectations for E3 as low as possible.
Even so, it is unfortunate that US gamers are being deprived of another great game, especially one that has a respected cult following in the States.
