Oh brother... 8 months =/

Let's hope for Early Summer or 5 months

I think it will be August or September though so 7-8 months

So, I had an uncomfortable thought. Do you think we will be able to make the characters fight in their underwear again? Because one of the party members is 13.

Maybe the localization will bump her age up to like... 16 or something. Like Bravely Default.

Of course the character's appearance wouldn't change.

Xenoblade Wii also had breast physics... maybe they are trying to make the new one more serious, and will do away with that and just have everyone in a sort of bodysuit if you remove their armor (if you can remove their armor).

In Project Zero 2 Wii Edition they got around the "underage girls in underwear" issue by just locking those costumes out of the Western release.

You can't really lock out the ability to remove armor from Xenoblade... there are skills that give characters perks for having no armor equipped. Those skills could be absent from X, but they could be included, which means you would be locking out actual gameplay content in the localization.

Ask the localization team who worked on Bravely Default.

Well, we don't even know for sure if the underwear option is  even available in XCX yet. It hasn't been shown so far.

For sure. But, I kind of feel like why wouldn't it be? It wasn't just an option in Xenoblade, it was a whole gameplay style. Naked Dunban is actually a really strong setup. Plus they had a lot of 'swimsuit' armors that were aesthetically (mostly) palette swaps of underwear. That outfit even sneaked its way into Smash as a costume for Shulk.

Maybe they're going for a more serious tone this time around?

They'll sort something out, in any case.

Where did you get this Nintendo bought Namco myth from  ,link please.

I checked and can't find anything except Namco selling 80% of Monolith and then later the remaining 16% they owned.