Reggie “really chafes” when people say Wii lost the hardcore

[Mr Khan]

sperrico87 said:

Mr Khan said:

badgenome said:
Never mind third party support. The question is, will Reggie support Nintendo's own console by localizing games that are already in English?

See, there's a non-bogus complaint. There is a lot of easy stuff Nintendo can do to please the hardcore that they don't, but so much of it is mis-attributed. Earthbound would have been nice, for one, they were willing to fix the N64 Wave Race for intellectual property problems, but not EarthBound? Or dragging their feet on the SD storage solution.

Some of the British accents in Xenoblade do make me lol, though.

I think some of those are NCL's fault, though.  I always hesitate to blame NoA for a lot of those issues because NCL has an iron grip on basically all decision making.  People blame Reggie for not brining over Mother 3, but what if Iwata was the one who said no to it?  They have their reasons, I guess.  NoA definitely gets less first-party games than Japan, that's for sure.  Some of the complaints are justified, others not so much.  For instance, I don't think Giftpia, Captain Rainbow, or Doshin the Giant would have been very big sellers in North America.

No, i agree. Some of the games that weren't brought over were better off staying in Japan (i got the opportunity to play Zangeki no Reginleiv, and it definitely had quality issues despite being a pretty fun game), but clearly someone should have done more.