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Words Of Wisdom on 17 March 2008
Chadius said:
Roflinator said:
I just hope Brawl will give Earthbound some more popularity. Mother 3 US release please :(

I'm really interested in the series but I'm not much of a rom guy unless I netgame or rom hack.

Ice Climbers were revived for SSBM. They didn't get a rerelease/port/whatever.

On the plus side, Marth & Roy gave Fire Emblem a chance in NA and it's doing great. (Except we haven't gotten Roy or Marth's Fire Emblem games in NA. Marth's getting a DS remake though.)

 

I do hope for Mother 3 getting a stateside release (since I loved Earthbound,) but...


I heard the FE for the DS is a remake of FE1 (Marth's game).  We almost had FE6 on the GBA...



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BCrayfish on 17 March 2008
Chadius said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Not sure why it didn't sell well. I still have the giant Earthbound + Strategy Guide box it came in. ^_^

Lucky Duck.

 

Long ago, in the mists of time I let my cousin borrow it. He threw out the scratch n sniff cards and trashed the player's guide cover. A few weeks later his house was robbed and lost my SNES and games.

 

Argh


 Ouch, that's horrible.

Someone drew all over my player's guide. I couldn't figure out why none of the ingame monsters had angry V eyebrows. 



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NintendoTogepi on 17 March 2008
Chadius said:
The rough answer is that Mother 2 (Earthbound) never sold well enough to justify the localization costs.

With the VC out, Nintendo could at least release Mother 1 on the (modded) Famicom. They've translated it already, so it wouldn't cost them anything right now.

Mother 3 would require translation. And they'd have to release it as a GBA game. And it probably wouldn't sell (see Mother 2 sales.)

 They could just release all three for DS.

 Mother 2 didn't sell because of a crappy advertising campaign and the market simply wasn't ready.

I bet you 100000  dollars that if they translated Mother 3 and released the 3 games for DS, it would sell at least a million copies, which would be more than enough to make back. Word of mouth, and interest from the SSB series would propell it to 500,000 copies alone.



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Riachu on 17 March 2008
NintendoTogepi said:
Chadius said:
The rough answer is that Mother 2 (Earthbound) never sold well enough to justify the localization costs.

With the VC out, Nintendo could at least release Mother 1 on the (modded) Famicom. They've translated it already, so it wouldn't cost them anything right now.

Mother 3 would require translation. And they'd have to release it as a GBA game. And it probably wouldn't sell (see Mother 2 sales.)

They could just release all three for DS.

Mother 2 didn't sell because of a crappy advertising campaign and the market simply wasn't ready.

I bet you 100000 dollars that if they translated Mother 3 and released the 3 games for DS, it would sell at least a million copies, which would be more than enough to make back. Word of mouth, and interest from the SSB series would propell it to 500,000 copies alone.


 Earthbound didn't sell well because people were being graphic whores



 

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Words Of Wisdom on 17 March 2008
BCrayfish said:
Chadius said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Not sure why it didn't sell well. I still have the giant Earthbound + Strategy Guide box it came in. ^_^

Lucky Duck.

 

Long ago, in the mists of time I let my cousin borrow it. He threw out the scratch n sniff cards and trashed the player's guide cover. A few weeks later his house was robbed and lost my SNES and games.

 

Argh


Ouch, that's horrible.

Someone drew all over my player's guide. I couldn't figure out why none of the ingame monsters had angry V eyebrows.


Yikes that really sucks.  My Earthbound copy and guide are both tucked in that box in as pristine a condition as when I received them (more or less).  I try to take really nice care of all my things.  I even still have the scratch and sniff cards myself.  Even that really stinky one... Bleh!



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MaxwellGT2000 on 17 March 2008

I hated that stinky one it made the whole guide smell bad after I scratched it (along with the finger that scratched it and THAT STUFF DOES NOT COME OFF EASY) I love the series as it is imo the best RPG ever made I just love it that much.

Hell if they want sells I would personally buy as many copies as I could XD I mean even now I still play Earthbound (see sig) I think now that its gotten promotion through Smash Bros and through word of mouth it would get much better sales, I'm still hoping the revived series coming to Wii (as been said on IGN from Matt and Bozon they've seen it just can't say anything about it) is Earthbound. The only two series that would make sense is Earthbound and Kid Icarus, but I'm not a huge fan of KI so I'm hoping for Earthbound =).



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Kasz216 on 17 March 2008

Hm. Come to think of it. With Fire Emblem DS. Isn't Lucas the only Japan only playavke character in brawl?

They probably just took out Roy because Ike had US cred.  Still. 

Maybe it's going to be "Nintendo goes to a Triathalon". 



NintendoTogepi on 22 March 2008

I wish Nintendo would announce something...



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nine0nine on 22 March 2008

A 3 in 1 cart DS has been rumoured for a long time, but I dont think its ever goin to happen. There is a homebrew community dedicated to doing a translation hack for 3 though, so that may be our only option.

 



Roflinator on 22 March 2008
Chadius said:
Roflinator said:
I just hope Brawl will give Earthbound some more popularity. Mother 3 US release please :(

I'm really interested in the series but I'm not much of a rom guy unless I netgame or rom hack.

Ice Climbers were revived for SSBM. They didn't get a rerelease/port/whatever.

On the plus side, Marth & Roy gave Fire Emblem a chance in NA and it's doing great. (Except we haven't gotten Roy or Marth's Fire Emblem games in NA. Marth's getting a DS remake though.)

 

I do hope for Mother 3 getting a stateside release (since I loved Earthbound,) but...


Ice Climbers weren't generally liked in Melee. But they did get a rerelease on the NES Classics for the GBA if I'm not mistaken. They were also availible on Animal Crossing through E-Reader.