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JEMC on 23 April 2015
Materia-Blade said:
JEMC said:
So, just because Nintendo had 3 Japanese Directs for this game three months before its release, some of you are now assuming that the same "logic" will happen for NA, right? Just to know, when was the last time Nintendo released one of its major titles in July/August?

More on topic, it's a shame that this is NA only. Shibata, I hope your guys are working hard on the translation of this game!

The game is already finished. what's so surprising about getting released soon after japan?

It's not about it being released soon, but about the logic of expecting the same pattern that happened in Japan (three Xenoblade X Directs starting three months before release) and therefore assuming that it would get launched in July.

Besides that, my only "but" would be that given the Zelda delay, Nintendo doesn't have any big title for Xmas, and Xenoblade could fill that gap perfectly. By the way, that's when I think Nintendo will launch the game in Europe.



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tbone51 on 23 April 2015
Materia-Blade said:
JEMC said:
So, just because Nintendo had 3 Japanese Directs for this game three months before its release, some of you are now assuming that the same "logic" will happen for NA, right? Just to know, when was the last time Nintendo released one of its major titles in July/August?

More on topic, it's a shame that this is NA only. Shibata, I hope your guys are working hard on the translation of this game!

The game is already finished. what's so surprising about getting released soon after japan?


Whats Soon? Not before E3, but it be a nice surprise for End of June/Beginning of July!



gergroy on 23 April 2015
Materia-Blade said:
JEMC said:
So, just because Nintendo had 3 Japanese Directs for this game three months before its release, some of you are now assuming that the same "logic" will happen for NA, right? Just to know, when was the last time Nintendo released one of its major titles in July/August?

More on topic, it's a shame that this is NA only. Shibata, I hope your guys are working hard on the translation of this game!

The game is already finished. what's so surprising about getting released soon after japan?


Because localization isnt something you can just put together in a couple months.  This is a huge game and will have a ton of text and voicework And who knows what else that will need to be redone.  Localizing it is a pretty huge undertaking...

that being said, they could have been smart about it and been working on it concurrently with the japanese version.  So it is possible... But considering that monolith software isnt very big, I think it is pretty improbable that would split their resources like that...



Materia-Blade on 23 April 2015
gergroy said:
Materia-Blade said:

The game is already finished. what's so surprising about getting released soon after japan?


Because localization isnt something you can just put together in a couple months.  This is a huge game and will have a ton of text and voicework And who knows what else that will need to be redone.  Localizing it is a pretty huge undertaking...

that being said, they could have been smart about it and been working on it concurrently with the japanese version.  So it is possible... But considering that monolith software isnt very big, I think it is pretty improbable that would split their resources like that...

Do you seriously believe the localization process just started? they started it while developing the game.



Materia-Blade on 23 April 2015
JEMC said:
Materia-Blade said:
JEMC said:
So, just because Nintendo had 3 Japanese Directs for this game three months before its release, some of you are now assuming that the same "logic" will happen for NA, right? Just to know, when was the last time Nintendo released one of its major titles in July/August?

More on topic, it's a shame that this is NA only. Shibata, I hope your guys are working hard on the translation of this game!

The game is already finished. what's so surprising about getting released soon after japan?

It's not about it being released soon, but about the logic of expecting the same pattern that happened in Japan (three Xenoblade X Directs starting three months before release) and therefore assuming that it would get launched in July.

Besides that, my only "but" would be that given the Zelda delay, Nintendo doesn't have any big title for Xmas, and Xenoblade could fill that gap perfectly. By the way, that's when I think Nintendo will launch the game in Europe.

I haven't seen people expecting exactly 3 directs but there's also nothing wrong in thinking it will release 2 or 3 months after this direct.

"my only "but" would be that given the Zelda delay, Nintendo doesn't have any big title for Xmas, and Xenoblade could fill that gap perfectly."

Not gonna happen, regardless of what games nintendo will release in november.



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sc94597 on 23 April 2015
gergroy said:

But considering that monolith software isnt very big, I think it is pretty improbable that would split their resources like that...

Isn't it standard for NoA and NoE to be in charge of localization, not Monolith Soft? I'm not sure if I am recalling correctly, but I thought there was some type of evidence that they already started the localization last year. 



Goodnightmoon on 23 April 2015

YES :D



Goodnightmoon on 23 April 2015

What if Europe is getting Yoshi on June because US is getting Xenoblade X on June- July?

I´ve been thinking this for a while.



uran10 on 23 April 2015
Nuvendil said:
XCX bundle? Anyone?


I got the same vibe, but let's wait and see.



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melbye on 23 April 2015
curl-6 said:
Volterra_90 said:
What about NoE? I hope we won't have to wait longer...

Yeah this has me worried also.

XCX will likely be a very text/VA heavy game, so translating it into all the languages of Europe could take time. :(

They should release the english version first then. Why should we who are going to play that version anyway have to suffer because of Germany, Italy or France