IGN Wii-k in review

[naznatips]

Rath said:

naznatips said:

 

Earthbound is the second game in the MOTHER series. MOTHER 2 to be more specific. MOTHER 1 was on the NES, and wasn't released outside of Japan. MOTHER 3 was released on the GBA just a year ago. So it is certainly not a dead franchise, and it's very unlikely that it's the franchise they were talking about.

 However IGN is a western videogame site. They may not count Mother 3 as it hasnt been released outside of Japan.

Matt and Bozon aren't like that.  If anything, they are more focused on Japan-centric games than western.  They wouldn't make a silly mistake like that, and they know that in their podcast they are talking to educated gamers, not people who don't know anything about Nintendo franchises.  If they say it's a dead franchise, then they don't just mean dead in America.