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Galaki on 13 October 2011
Soriku said:
Galaki said:
Soriku said:

Why would you import a PAL Wii? You can EASILY mod your Wii with an SD card for like $6 if you don't already own one.

Not everyone want to mod, regardless of how easy or cheap it is.

For...what reason? It's not like you can't remove the Homebrew Channel or something...

You need a reason to not mod your console?



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Gamerace on 13 October 2011
Galaki said:
Soriku said:

Why would you import a PAL Wii? You can EASILY mod your Wii with an SD card for like $6 if you don't already own one.

Not everyone want to mod, regardless of how easy or cheap it is.


I agree with this, and personally I never considered it until I realized Nintendo (of A) had next to nothing coming out this year despite having critically acclaimed games in the bag (Xeno, TLS).     They ignored FF4, D:DoC (with good reason actually, yuck), Zangeki, Takt of Magic, Pikmin 2, etc., etc., so I didn't see any chance they'd release Xeno, TLS, PT.   So if they weren't going to make the games accessible to me, I'd have to mod and make myself accessible to the games.

Also, with WiiU and 3DS I figured Nintendo wouldn't care about Wii anymore (like how they abandon GC in it's last 18 months) and future modded-Wii bricking updates would be highly unlikely.  Now I'm very happy to support NoE who is bringing the games out that I want to play.  And NoA will get some $ for Kirby/Zelda still.



 

Iveyboi on 13 October 2011
oni-link said:
Iveyboi said:
oni-link said:
Iveyboi said:
I wanted this game based upon the hype. But after playing Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon and realizing that Last Story was made by Mistwalker....I REALLY want this game. Too bad Wii is region locked (unlike PS3 where I can import Japanese gems such as Tales of Xillia!) otherwise I would import in 2 seconds


ditto, and what makes it worse is that those 3 games along a few others(fatal frame etc) are the type  of games NIntendo gamers have been waiting for.

 

On another note, your freaking avatar of adrianna lima is distracting as hell!!! It's gonna be hard for  you to top that one. Jaric is one lucky bastard.


Agreed. On the Lima not; Yes Jaric is!


haven't played lost odessey yet...but planning to; Blue Dragon, was amazing and hopefully Mistwalker makes another sequel before the end of the 360's lifecycle.  On Lima...you don't find that chick hot?   I think she's a beauty...perfect skin...brunette...amazing body...and alluring eyes!!! A total hottie at the moment which hopefully will age gracefully IMHO.  How can weak ass (compared to other NBA players) Jaric score such an amazing woman is beyond me!?

Oops it meant to say Note; I see how that one mistake changed the sentence. Lima is a perfect human speciman. I reccomend playing Lost Odyssey. I just completed it yesterday. Although it is far from perfect; it was a great experience.



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oniyide on 13 October 2011
Siko1989 said:

The Global Nintendo didn't decide to release it in Australia over America, it was the Nintendo Office in Australia that decide what they should release, and they want The Last Story to be classified. blame everything on Nintendo of America because the Global Nintendo has no control on this.

so are you saying that Ninty of Japan(lets not kid ourselves, they are the parent company) have NO control over what essentially is subdivisions? I dont buy it



mike_intellivision on 13 October 2011

The question is not why did NoA not release it here. The question is why did NoE release it.
According to a certain website, Xenoblade has sold 95k copies in EMEAA in eight weeks of release.
That is less than 5M euros of revenue (not profit, gross revenue) from which translation, preparation, production, shipping, and packaging will have to be paid.
For comparison, Just Dance 3 sold 120k copies in the Americas in its first week of release.

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- Yes, I want to play this game too. But economics say it is not as big a deal to most people as people here are making it out to be.



      


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oni-link on 13 October 2011
Iveyboi said:
oni-link said:
Iveyboi said:
oni-link said:
Iveyboi said:
I wanted this game based upon the hype. But after playing Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon and realizing that Last Story was made by Mistwalker....I REALLY want this game. Too bad Wii is region locked (unlike PS3 where I can import Japanese gems such as Tales of Xillia!) otherwise I would import in 2 seconds


ditto, and what makes it worse is that those 3 games along a few others(fatal frame etc) are the type  of games NIntendo gamers have been waiting for.

 

On another note, your freaking avatar of adrianna lima is distracting as hell!!! It's gonna be hard for  you to top that one. Jaric is one lucky bastard.


Agreed. On the Lima not; Yes Jaric is!


haven't played lost odessey yet...but planning to; Blue Dragon, was amazing and hopefully Mistwalker makes another sequel before the end of the 360's lifecycle.  On Lima...you don't find that chick hot?   I think she's a beauty...perfect skin...brunette...amazing body...and alluring eyes!!! A total hottie at the moment which hopefully will age gracefully IMHO.  How can weak ass (compared to other NBA players) Jaric score such an amazing woman is beyond me!?

Oops it meant to say Note; I see how that one mistake changed the sentence. Lima is a perfect human speciman. I reccomend playing Lost Odyssey. I just completed it yesterday. Although it is far from perfect; it was a great experience.


Yeah, I agree on how Mistwalker makes games the way the old SquareEnix used to make em.  Blue Dragon, despite it's flaws was enjoyable and harken back to simpler times in terms of storyline, gameplay etc.  I hate the new SE with their convoluted plots and gameplay schemes!!!  Can't wait to play LO as soon as I finish with Batman AC and LoZ:SS it is on my to do list.



oni-link on 13 October 2011
RolStoppable said:
mike_intellivision said:
The question is not why did NoA not release it here. The question is why did NoE release it.
According to a certain website, Xenoblade has sold 95k copies in EMEAA in eight weeks of release.
That is less than 5M euros of revenue (not profit, gross revenue) from which translation, preparation, production, shipping, and packaging will have to be paid.
For comparison, Just Dance 3 sold 120k copies in the Americas in its first week of release.

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- Yes, I want to play this game too. But economics say it is not as big a deal to most people as people here are making it out to be.

If you only look at it in revenue terms for the game itself, then you would be right.

But this is one of those titles that help to keep your passionate customers being passionate. Having them is the most powerful marketing tool for a company, because it is not only free advertising, but more effective too. Making decisions that make you lose passionate customers is not good, but making decisions that turn these customers into advocates against your products is even worse. The impact of not releasing Xenoblade and others in America could go far beyond pure revenue numbers for these games.

Xenoblade and The Last Story certainly aren't comparable to the likes of Disaster: Day of Crisis and Excitebots. The latter two are pretty forgettable, but those JRPGs are among the best the genre had to offer in the last five years, so losing out on these games is actually going to piss people off and casts huge doubts on Nintendo's promise of being more comitted to the hardcore gamer in the future.


@rol

my thoughts exactly!!!



oni-link on 13 October 2011
oniyide said:
Siko1989 said:

The Global Nintendo didn't decide to release it in Australia over America, it was the Nintendo Office in Australia that decide what they should release, and they want The Last Story to be classified. blame everything on Nintendo of America because the Global Nintendo has no control on this.

so are you saying that Ninty of Japan(lets not kid ourselves, they are the parent company) have NO control over what essentially is subdivisions? I dont buy it

i'm with oni...I don't buy it also!!! I demand respect for all of us NA Nintendo fans and I demand them now!!!



Wyrdness on 13 October 2011

A lot of you wouldn't of survived in Europe prior to 3 years ago if 3 games sends you over the wall.



Galaki on 14 October 2011
Wyrdness said:

A lot of you wouldn't of survived in Europe prior to 3 years ago if 3 games sends you over the wall.

You're missing the point. We are NOT Europe. So, the hypothetical situation does not make sense.



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