Official Emily Rogers Discussion Thread: No More Rumors Until January

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Vini256 said:

JEMC said:

The claim she made was that it would come to the west to celebrate the 10th anniversary, which it hasn't.

Also, we aren't talking about a new game but rather an eShop/Virtua Console game. What does Nintendo gain from not launching it on Wii U but the Switch?

Yeah, it's why I'm not really defending her, she was wrong about it after all. I know it's a Virtual Console game and all, but at this point if they do release this game it's probably gonna be on the Switch just because the Wii U is pretty much dead. I can't really imagine some sort of Wii U direct happening anymore. Anyways, Mother 3 is one of those games that people have been expecting for a long time now, so even though it's old, I think they should make it exclusive to the Switch as there's probably a good amount of people who would buy one just for that.

Of course that's just my speculation, it could still come out on Wii U, Switch, or both (Or maybe not release at all, lol). You can't predict Nintendo, so who knows what they'll end up doing.

The problem of that theory is that Nintendo did launch Mother 3 on the Wii U's Virtua Console, but only in Japan.

Nintendo simply doesn't want to spend extra money on the localisation of the game.