I think things will be all right.

NOA did not give its usual "we don't comment answer." That in and of itself is news.

Patience grasshopper.

MIke from Morgantown

I'm not that worried about XenoBlade or The Last Story getting a western release. Whether Nintendo will release them in 2011 or wait so they have something to release while awaiting Wii2, like they will do with some Japanese-only DS titles, is another question though.

That game came out in 2006 dude. It's been out for years!

I've got a feeling it was never released in Europe.  Which is actually kinda understandable considering how it was a fairly niche game on a practically dead console in one of Nintendo's weakest regions.

The likes of Xenogears, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Super Mario RPG and 8 and 16 bit Final Fantasies though, I'll never quite understand why Europe didn't originally get them.  I've only been able to play them via remakes/ports/Virtual Console and I recently gave in and imported the likes of Xenogears and Chrono Cross.  I'm not sure why the US didn't get Terranigma and Europe did for that matter either.

Nintendo made a deal to localize several late term Enix SFC games, but Terranigma in Europe for whatever reason was the only one that went through.  They also actually got the rights to release Tactics Ogre (which Enix had licensed from Quest) and Dragon Quest VI too, but sadly those never made it.

Are the Saturn and PSX versions of Tactics Ogre just an upgraded port of the SNES version?  It's a shame they weren't localised.  The Playstation TO, along with DQ VII is the  next on my importing list.

While I can understand it for the likes of Earthound, Super Mario RPG was the strangest decision not to localise for Europe, considering the Mario name would have guaranteed a good return on it.  Maybe S-E and Nintendo had already fallen out by then. 

Europe not getting most english localized NES/SNES RPGs seems strange imo.  Europe did get most MegaDrive RPGs though iirc.

The Saturn and PS1 versions of Tactics Ogre (and Ogre Battle for that matter) are ports, but they're generally seen as inferior to the SFC originals due to various small changes and added load times (PS versions are worse than Saturn for this though).  I also prefer the original "chip tune" soundtracks to the orchestrated CD versions, but that's more a personal issue.  Quest didn't handle either port at all too, they were licensed out and done by ArtDink on PS and Riverhill Soft on Saturn.  Fun little side note, Riverhill Soft's R&D group eventually left the company and formed Level-5, Hino actually worked on the ports himself way back in the day.

You're right, BKO never made it to Europe. What a shame. As for Terranigma, I hope it makes it to the Virtual Console.

Nintendo are too obsessed with money these days to localize games just for there fans, knowing there a high chance of losing money or making very little. I like the old nintendo, New one is shit -.- imo anyway