Will Iwata finally give more control to Nintendo of America?

[DarkNight_DS]

Cobretti2 said:

Look this may be anecdotal evidence however I got pissed off with all these Wii U games not making it to stores in Australia. Ninja Gaiden for example only come out as a download. I was pissed off so I rang them and the guy on the phone said basically they don't have enough funds so if it is a high risk game that may or may nor sell they don't. The reason he gave was the lack of funds because since hardware sales of Wii declined there was no money left for marketing and game localisation because it was spent in previous years during the Wii golden era.

Now to me that is fucked up relying on the local market to make enough money to fund itself. NintendoHQ should be funding marketing/game localisation to help expand their consoles in the west.

I wanted to but the EU release of the game like I used to during the Wii era, however I was informed that I would need an EU NNID, What a hassel if your console fails trying to get it all fixed.

If a game can't get localized for australia in disc form it SHOULD BE on the e-shop.  There is no excuse not to launch a game in Australia that made it out in North America.

As for the money comment, it's likely that Nintendo chose to blow their marketing budget pushing the 3DS.  Still no excuse not to push the Wii U harder.  Using a little cash to grease the wheels of the blog sites would be a good start.