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Wagram on 20 January 2011
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Kirbys Epic Yarn takes precidence over TLS. Lol that's the funniest shit i've heard all day.


Are you seriously saying it doesn't? 


Honestly. No I don't think it does. The Wiis JRPG collection is lacking and TLS is a very high profile title. It should take more of a priority. Nintendos excuse is lacking and just shows lazyness.

Since you live in the US, I don't get why you have a problem with this. Kirby was already released in NA, but not in EU. This guy's problem is that they'd have to localize in multiple languages...NoA only has to do one.

"Nintendo has explained its decision to only release promising Wii Japanese role-playing game The Last Story in Japan. "

Back up for a sec.

Since when did NoE = NoA?

It isn't just NoE. It specifically states that TLS is a Japan exclusive and that their is no plans for either. Then they posted this bullshit excuse today.



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Wagram on 20 January 2011
Soriku said:
Wagram said:

It isn't just NoE. It specifically states that TLS is a Japan exclusive and that their is no plans for either. Then they posted this bullshit excuse today.


???

This is the original article:

Nintendo has explained its decision to only release promising Wii Japanese role-playing game The Last Story in Japan.

"With all the conversions, when we do it in Europe we've got to do the whole of Europe," Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton told Eurogamer. "So it's multiple languages. It has to be viable.

"We've got so much on our plate at the moment. The most important one is in the first quarter this year. Kirby's Epic Yarn is the most important title. We've got some great product coming out.

"On top of that, when we add in 3DS, it's just so much."

Nintendo disappointed many European and North American Wii owners when it revealed it's decision to keep The Last Story Japan exclusive.

The Mistwalker-developed title has attracted a great deal of attention from Western gamers through the release of eye-catching trailers and translated information from Japan.

While Nintendo repeated it's "no plans to release The Last Story in Europe and the US" stance to Eurogamer, it did offer a glimmer of hope.

"We've released quite a lot of RPGs on the Wii in the UK," Yarnton said. "It's an area that's been growing for us. It's up to the market. We never write anything off."

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NoE talk only. They link back to the VG247 article but you must be stupid if you honestly believe such an incredibly generic PR response. We went over this in the last thread.

Btw as for Xenoblade, you know they retrademarked Monado on Dec 20 right? Just a month ago.


Nintendo has explained its decision to only release promising Wii Japanese role-playing game The Last Story in Japan.

Are you not seeing this or what?



Wagram on 20 January 2011
Soriku said:
Wagram said:


Nintendo has explained its decision to only release promising Wii Japanese role-playing game The Last Story in Japan.

Are you not seeing this or what?

Are you not seeing they specifically talked to the NoE boss? They refer to NoE as just Nintendo because this is a Eurogamer article.

Talk to me when they interview Reggie.

I give up. It all boils down to the fact that it's a bullshit excuse. They can translate it easily if they wanted too.



Aiddon on 21 January 2011

Once again, I'm just going to cite my typical mantra: I'll wait for Reggie, Iwata, or Sakaguchi to talk about it, until then it's just textbook PR lines spoken by grunts. EU does admittedly have a tough time due to the variety of languages spoken thus forcing devs to make a LOT of different language tacks



Joelcool7 on 21 January 2011

Honestly Nintendo has never thought RPG's sell outside of Japan. Look at Mother (EarthBound) other then Mother2 no EarthBound games were brought to anyone outside Japan. What I would like to see Nintendo do is outsource these RPG's to western studios for translation.

Nintendo's TreeHouse division which translates and localizes games for the US is only so large. I'm sure the european translating divisions are also only so large. Someone pointed out Microsoft translates alot of their games why can't Nintendo? Nintendo may be the most successful games publisher but when push comes to shove they don't have the resources Microsoft does. Also Microsoft's games are usually translated from english to european languages, english is a way more popular language and that means alot more staff can translate. The few Japanese titles that need translating can be translated by Microsoft's internal teams.

In the end TreeHouse is translating everything Nintendo makes (Almost all from Japan in Japanese) meaning alot less resources to translate other games. Also you'll notice he talks about 3DS and Kirby, fact is Nintendo knows they want to expand the Kirby franchise and push the 3DS, more competition for your dollars make that harder.

You may think these are bullshit reasons, as do I to a degree but they are logical. I just wish Nintendo liscensed these titles to publishers in Europe and NA to translate and localize. Third party publishers outsource all the time I think Nintendo would be smart to do likewise!



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lolita on 21 January 2011

Eh, it's not an official answer to me. It just sounds like he said they can't do it now. I'll wait before saying Nintendo suck and such. I'm not very trustful of things like that, unless it comes from Reggie, Iwata or the game devs.

Can someone answer me this: Does it need to be translated in all those languages? Can't the games just come out in English or is there some law that states it has to be in French, Italian, etc? I mean it's silly to need to translate it in so many languages when pretty much everyone speaks English, at least on some level.



Chrizum on 21 January 2011

Many, many Wii games are English only in Europe. I also don't understand the problem. Just keep it English and bring it over to the rest of the world!



flagstaad on 21 January 2011
Wagram said:


Nintendo has explained its decision to only release promising Wii Japanese role-playing game The Last Story in Japan.

Are you not seeing this or what?


The part you are bolding its not a quote from NOE its the conclusion that the magazine its jumping to. Later you can see that the representative said that THERE IS A CHANCE.



Hephaestos on 22 January 2011

thread on a counter statement by N france

 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=123338&page=1&str=1230174095#33

 

 

 

Merci de votre intérêt pour The Last Story. Malheureusement le vocabulaire utilisé par cette annonce a été mal interprété par les journalistes anglais : "no plans at the moment" ne veut pas dire que la sortie est annulée, juste qu'elle n'est pas encore programmée dans le calendrier.
 
L'adaptation de ce jeux pourrait être très longue (12 000 dialogues à enregistrer!) et nos équipes de traduction sont débordées sur le court terme."
 
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Le Vendredi 21 Janvier 2011 à  00:32, XXXXXXXXXXXX@free.fr> a écrit :
C'est quoi ces news disant que ce jeu ne sortira pas en dehors du japon?
Faites une version que en sous-titres Anglais si c'est si compliqué de traduire, La Nes était pas en français que je sache et ca se vendait quand même, de plus les fans seront tout aussi content avec les voix en jap et des sous-titres...
(sortez le en UK only et laissez nous importer si il y des problèmes législatifs).

Y'a une pétition online pour ce jeu..
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?TLSWR



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