@tres

no wonder they changed the wii box art from brown to red

They're a relatively tiny company (Marvelous, not Ubi...). I don't know why you'd expect anything.

Much as I hate to admit it, you've got a point here.

Don't mistake me, I'm becoming a bigger fan of Marvelous by the day, but they certainly don't have the resources needed to widely advertise any of their games. That's certainly different from Ubisoft, who has the resources but doesn't care to use them, but the ultimate result will be the same; the game won't be widely advertised.

In time Marvelous may get the ability to fix this, but it's going to be a while.

True, but that's little better. X-Seed is puny itself, and its primary purpose is to localize Japanese games.

There's a reason the two companies are avoiding the HD consoles: they don't have the resources to play in that market, and they've both gone on record as saying so (although X-Seed is considering becoming more ambitious, if the right opporunity comes along).

Well for one my city got it two weeks later.
That never happened before.

Just for the record, Rising Star (EU) = Marvelous Entertainment (JP, recently US only 2 games published in US)

Harvest Moon DS (EU)                                                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T7_ZDSuq_U

Harvest Moon Shining Sun & Friends DS (JP)                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zny9B8eQMtI

No More Heroes (JP)                                                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sh69IzTlOU

The only US NMH Ad I have ever seen (On the nomoreheroes.com website and being featured on the front page of 1up.com doesn't count), was in 2 gameinformer mags, one a month after the game came out, in which the game was reviewed horridly, and the second was when they didn't expect to get a s much money but didn't want to spend enough on a TV ad. Also, the ads were both the same, and said almost NOTHING about the game, but only offered the front cover pic and 3 TINY 1"x 1.5"gameplay pics.

Yeah, Mine came out 2 days late as well (although considering your case I shouldn't be complaining)

I saw plenty of ads for assassins creed despite ITS Demographic. Ubi just picked up NMH for a quick buck.

nice, i am getting the 1st one as a bday gift for my wii, which i am also getting for my bday. cant wait. :)

A far better choice.
Ubisoft -- Red Steele 2 notwithstanding -- has developed a profitable but deploarable business model for the Wii. (and the DS) Make cheap stuff that will sell in middling numbers to certain demographics, enabling a profit that can be put into games for the HD systems.

Mike from Morgantown