Nintendo responds to Xenoblade's localization efforts (along with Monolithsoft, Mistwalker)

[Zlejedi]

manuel said:

Zlejedi said:

manuel said:

The question for me is, how in the world could they believe that Xenoblade and The Last Story wouldn't sell well enough?

I'm sure they'd sell more than enough to see a healthy profit. (Especially if they just left the Japanese voices and used subtitles.)

Compare  localization effort of Last Story or Xenoblade which are rpg with tons of dialogue lines to Mario game or Wii something. Then compare sales expectations for those two.

I (being a translator) know how much time and money it costs to localize a game. And I know that big RPGs are very expensive to localize. But still, even if there is only little profit involved, they'd have to do it for the fans (I'm talking about morality here... and I know that asking morality from a big company is pointless, but...).

Well I have a single advise that always work in case of Nintendo:

If what they do doesn't make sense think about them as a bunch of greedy assholes and everything sudenly jumps into proper places ;)