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gumby_trucker on 09 June 2011
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NoA really are being idiotic about this game. Really can't believe NoE is one-upping them on this game.

If this game doesn't come over then I'm going to import for sure but that's the worst case scenario I'd hope I don't want to do. There's no reason not to bring such a hyped RPG that's already localized by NoE but decide to bring over DQMJ2 instead (not saying it shouldn't come over though, just doesn't make sense not to bring out Xenoblade as well).

Good luck bringing hardcore gamers over to the Wii U NoA if you're not even bringing over your best games. There's still time to wise up, but...

Lots of people on other sites are complaining as well.


I'm baffled why they don't localise as well

Surely given that text and voice translation has already been done they can essentially 'free ride' off NoE's efforts, most of the work has been done for them.  They can publish it, incurring little costs and make a certain profit, even if the game sells very poorly.  Americans will just have to put up with our strand of English in text and voices, that's all.

With DS games (such as Jam with the Band, Solatorobo, etc which NoE localised, but not NoA), I can partly understand as due to the fact that the DS is region free.  One in the US can import from Europe and therefore could reduce US sales and therefore NoA's profit and incentive to localise.  No such reason exists for a game like Xenoblade Chronicles which is on a region locked console.

if NoA actually gave a damn about Nintendo fans then your line of thinking would be sensible, but seeing as they didn't even bother localizing NPC Pikmin 2 I have no reason to believe they care. Disaster I can understand, even Another Code: R as it doesn't seem to have sold too well... But Pikmin is a core Nintendo franchise so there is no excuse when all they needed was to reprint the European version.

I may just send an email to Nintendo's customer support telling them I am upset about losing Pikmin 3 for Wii, and that the least they could do was bring over NPC Pikmin 2. Not that I think that'll help at all...

Hell, at this rate I'm not even holding my breath for Dragon Quest any more. SE may still release it in Japan, but it wouldn't be passed NoA to upscale it and localize for Wii U only. I am beginning to hate Reggie.



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Euphoria14 on 09 June 2011

They say that they split away from the core gamer with the wii and aim to fix that with the wii u. They should have shown us that they were serious by beginning with what they keep asking for the most. I'm still pissed that they bought monolith... NoA, get off your fucking asses already.



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pariz on 09 June 2011

I still want it. Badly. But let's face it. It won't sell. And it is already too late they might even wait an remake it for Wii U as well. A year ago this game could have made Wii look so good.



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darthdevidem01 on 09 June 2011
pariz said:
I still want it. Badly. But let's face it. It won't sell. And it is already too late they might even wait an remake it for Wii U as well. A year ago this game could have made Wii look so good.

Well the dev team has moved onto their next project and in fact TODAY itself they;ve given out listings for many more people to join...they are expanding!



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trestres on 09 June 2011

And when I said this game was not gonna make it, I got labeled a hater, even by some now complaining... lol

I told you all, NoA won't bring the games we want. This year is all board games, party games, sports collections and Zelda. "Wow".

And then we see NoJ localizing every game and then some more, like today they announced they are gonna publish Epic Mickey there, even if the game is destined to bomb there, like Just Dance 3 and 007 will.

Terrible, NoA must merge with NCL as 1 subsidiary and stop with the discrimination.

Don't expect TLS or Pandoras ever.



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JTurner82 on 09 June 2011

Now everybody, let's not jump to conclusions! Just because XB wasn't announced at E3 doesn't mean we won't see it here. I mean, it's not like NoA themselves said they wouldn't release it. They said there wasn't any information "at this time". I suspect that maybe it will be given a stealth announcement like DS' DRAGON QUEST VI and MONSTER HUNTER 3, but at the moment, there's really no point in casting dispersions over anything. We'll just have to wait and see. As far as TLS goes, I won't give up on that either, as the game is, after all, waiting to be translated (confirmed?) for Europe, but I'm not expecting Pandora's Tower.

So everyone, please, don't despair. We may get it yet.



Mr Khan on 09 June 2011

The only reason Europe is doing it is because Europe's under NCL's direct control, which is clearly what they need to be doing with NoA, who hasn't made a decent contribution since their efforts to make sure the GameCube wasn't called the StarCube



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menx64 on 09 June 2011

Yes, I a very dissapointed they didnt even mentioned Xenoblade or TLS, I mean I was not expecting something big, but at least some references pics or something. While I agree that either Xenoblade nor TLS are going to sell as much as COD, mario or pokemon, they are quality titles. I Though NOA was doing a good job when we got rhythm heaven and sin and punishment, but what now?, How come they released sin and punishmet but now they dont release xenoblade or TLS????? I am still hoping we can get them someday though... Sigh...



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JTurner82 on 09 June 2011
menx64 said:
Yes, I a very dissapointed they didnt even mentioned Xenoblade or TLS, I mean I was not expecting something big, but at least some references pics or something. While I agree that either Xenoblade nor TLS are going to sell as much as COD, mario or pokemon, they are quality titles. I Though NOA was doing a good job when we got rhythm heaven and sin and punishment, but what now?, How come they released sin and punishmet but now they dont release xenoblade or TLS????? I am still hoping we can get them someday though... Sigh...


And maybe they will; we'll probably just have them announced when we least expect it.  I see this game and TLS being stealth announcements, at best.  If DQ6 could do it, then why not these two?  And besides, it's not as if EVERY RPG was announced for localization at every E3.  IIRC, DQ5, ToGF, and even MONSTER HUNTER 3 weren't shown at any E3s and we got them anyway, so....



Gamerace on 09 June 2011

If Xenoblade and TLS aren't on NoA release schedule by now, I have zero expectation of ever seeing them here. They usually announce games up until the end of the fiscal year at E3. NoA has definitely decided there base is too casual for such games. Largely I agree although it still pisses me off.

Regardless as long as NoE releases them (and Pandora's Tower too please) I'll be happy and import. It's NoA's loss if they don't want my money.