Nintendo has announced a partnership with Tecmo Koei to publish Samurai Warriors 3, the newest title in the Samurai Warriors franchise, exclusively for the Wii. Hitting North America in fall 2010, Samurai Warriors 3 is an evolution of the series, featuring a new game mode and a completely fresh storyline.

In addition to a host of new characters and combat and game-play elements, the game also will test players with new tactical and strategic challenges on the battlefield.

Samurai Warriors 3 offers two-player online and offline co-op with enhanced sharing features. The game also uses a special new game mode that offers players unique control of characters never seen before. This game mode is based on the Famicom game Nazo no Murasamejo (The Mysterious Murasame Castle) inspired by Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

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Can't say I ever played the first two, or really know anything about them. However, cool I suppose for thoose that like it and own a Wii.

Seems a bridge too far to me. Nintendo doing it as a gesture to third parties and nothing else. If the game couldn't even hit it off in it's home country, why should it here? Making Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest popular in the West will be a challenge, making Samurai Warriors popular will be a whole lot more difficult.

Ditto.

so does this mean its a first party title outside of japan?

I could not agree more.

And I'll add that I find it personally frustrating to see Nintendo expend resources promoting games like this when there are so many Nintendo-published games that they aren't bothering to localize for the West. I'd much rather see Another Code: R, The Last Window or Zangeki make it over than another generic Koei action game.

This.

Looks like Nintendo is trying too hard to convince 3rd party devs, but it's not working. Why help them instead of helping their own games? Let the 3rd party devs swallow their own failures if they don't want to put any effort. Look what Nintendo got for helping Capcom with MH3, a MHP3 announcement a month before MH3 is released.

If they are going to help Tecmo Koei with Samurai Warriors 3 then I really hope they will publish Reginleiv in the west, or else I will be very disappointed.

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

next week will get a 'nintendo to publish tales of graces in the west?'

No, please no.

Let Namco handle their own property and give us Reginliev!