I could see this game coming to North America. If XenoBlade does amazing in North America and if it does well in Europe I think it coming to North America would be very likely. Whether Nintendo publishes it or not is less known. If XSeed sees massive success they might port the title to NA themselves. GameStop might also be itching for a repeat of XenoBlades income I mean 250,000 sales of a game at only GameStop is pretty impressive and if they got PT exclusively like XenoBlade it would be a huge draw for business.
Also Reggie promised the Wii would receive a steady stream of new titles in 2012 and that the console was not dead. It would make sense for Nintendo to try and push every last game they can out into the market place if it meant slowing the Wii's complete demise.
Personally in the future Nintendo should do this far more often if they don't think a title is good enough for North America then out source it to a third party publisher and let them take all the risks. Works out good for everyone the third party publisher has the most to gain if the title is successful and Nintendo has nothing to lose.
Actually I think Nintendo would probably be smart to help fund a publisher to handle its more risky franchises. Maybe offer a few million in start up for 49% of the company and let this new publisher take all the risks in localizing. Or maybe Nintendo could sign a deal to offer a publisher any and all titles it decides not to bring to NA. That publisher could then chose to bring the title over it would definitely benefit the third party publisher in a massive way.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
