Nintendo publishing Samurai Warriors in the West

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famousringo said:

Demotruk said:

Seems a bridge too far to me. Nintendo doing it as a gesture to third parties and nothing else. If the game couldn't even hit it off in it's home country, why should it here? Making Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest popular in the West will be a challenge, making Samurai Warriors popular will be a whole lot more difficult.

I could not agree more.

And I'll add that I find it personally frustrating to see Nintendo expend resources promoting games like this when there are so many Nintendo-published games that they aren't bothering to localize for the West. I'd much rather see Another Code: R, The Last Window or Zangeki make it over than another generic Koei action game.

This.

Looks like Nintendo is trying too hard to convince 3rd party devs, but it's not working. Why help them instead of helping their own games? Let the 3rd party devs swallow their own failures if they don't want to put any effort. Look what Nintendo got for helping Capcom with MH3, a MHP3 announcement a month before MH3 is released.