| trestres said: Reality of the situation? Link? Or are you just assuming things? I mean, what you say has as much validity as what anyone else here says, so I don't think I'm buying it. |
Link? None. But the proof is in the pudding. Since you brought up Mother 3, we're going to talk about that. Or, rather, we're going to talk about EarthBound and the Virtual Console. Mother 3 ties into it.
The primary reason we're not going to be seeing Mother 2 or Mother 3 stateside are primarily legal: see http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/02/earthbound-music-similarities/ and more importantly http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/02/earthbound-legal-issues/ for some perspective on that.
Now, can NoA change the things that would be problematic? Sure. They changed certain things for the localization of EarthBound back in 1995, they have the resources and the knowhow to clip out of change a few seconds of a song. The question, then, is why tey don't do it. The answer to that is that in order to do that, they have to get permission from the home office - which is NCL. NCL is not budging on that particular issue of content change.
I'm not saying Nintendo of America doesn't have some autonomy, but it is ultimately going to be NCL that holds the vice grip on what regions get what. NoA are marketers more than anything else.
