Earthbound and it's prequel and sequel

[Riachu]

NintendoTogepi said:

Chadius said:
The rough answer is that Mother 2 (Earthbound) never sold well enough to justify the localization costs.

With the VC out, Nintendo could at least release Mother 1 on the (modded) Famicom. They've translated it already, so it wouldn't cost them anything right now.

Mother 3 would require translation. And they'd have to release it as a GBA game. And it probably wouldn't sell (see Mother 2 sales.)

They could just release all three for DS.

Mother 2 didn't sell because of a crappy advertising campaign and the market simply wasn't ready.

I bet you 100000 dollars that if they translated Mother 3 and released the 3 games for DS, it would sell at least a million copies, which would be more than enough to make back. Word of mouth, and interest from the SSB series would propell it to 500,000 copies alone.

 Earthbound didn't sell well because people were being graphic whores