trestres said:
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.
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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.
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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.
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A month before it's released in the West, though, where i'll bet Tri will handily outperform Portable 3, given the PSP is more or less DOA in the west, especially for software sales and especially for something like Monster Hunter. In the West, Portable 3 is going to be a blip on the radar, whereas Tri actually means something
So it isn't as cruel. If they had announced Portable 3 a month before the Japanese release, that would have been ruinous, but not beneath Capcom (announcing RE4 PS2 before RE4 GC came out)
