Otakumegane said:
I don't quite understand how Iwata becoming NoA CEO translates to more localizations. |
Because it was most likely from the very top of NOA management that decided NOT to localize The Last Story, for example. NOA makes it's own independant decisions, on what to spend time and money localizing, and what not to. I'm not saying that the guy who got promoted/moved back to Japan is a bad dude. But he is just a businessman, with a background in business. Iwata has a better/clearer understanding of what gamers actually like and want (for example, he was personally responsible for Nintendo aquiring Monolith and them developing, in his own words, Nintendo's answer to Final Fantasy, in Xenoblade, and we see that carrying on in the sequel "X"). I think if he's the one at the top in NOA making final decisions, there is at least a slightly better chance that next time around, we might see a couple (not ALL, but key) titles get leased in NA.
