Okay. Now I'm pissed! Someone start a petition so I can sign it! Meanwhile I'll send NoA a nasty letter. They may not care but it'll make me feel better.

I can only assume that NoA is now only interested in catering to the more casual audience and has decided that D:DoC and FF4 would not sell to them - which is actually right, they won't. Doesn't mean their aren't Wii owners who would want them but I guess NoA wants to keep a 'family friendly' image so if it's published by Nintendo you know it's fine for the kids to play.

I sure hope NoE releases it. I'll get Homebrew and import. F@#$ing NoA.

I say we get a petition and get NoA or tecmo to reconsider.  I find this decision both unfortunate and a slap in the face.

-Jon T.

Im not a fan of Fatal Frame but it still sucks that we wont get it. thats one good title were going to miss and possibly good sales.

All i have to say to you reggie is that your pushing it your really pushing it. after confirming that your not going to release Disaster, it wasnt a terrible decision but you left us out, you even had it on the wii site before and after wii launch.

From the same article as the OP:

In early April, MTV had the chance to speak with NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime about the subject and the executive shot down hopes for a local debut of Fatal Frame, saying: "We are not the publisher of that title in the Americas."

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There are several ways to take this

-- 1. NoA (Reggie) does not want to publish this game
-- 2. NCL (Japan) does not think the game will sell in the US and thus does not want to publish it in the US/NA
-- 3. KT and NCL disagree over who owns what -- and each side says it is the responsibility of the other

For a different take -- and one that makes it seem like (a) NOE is not releasing the game in that territory either and (b) there might be other parties involved (in other words, Nintendo sold off the publishing rights) see Spong:

http://news.spong.com/article/17626/Fatal_Frame_Wii_Never_Leaving_Japan

Mike from Morgantown

A message from someone at GoNintendo.com

"There’s obviously more going on here than we’re getting - people are just up in arms as usual to scream expletives at Reggie and Nintendo of America (Which people seem to be cherry-picking reasons to do these days, and hunting explicitly for justifications to do so), instead of asking more questions when in this case, it’s obvious that questions should be asked.

Should we raise a stink about wanting this game? Absolutely. If we make enough noise, they’ve shown that they will respond, and with Tecmo interested in localizing the game, if we make it clear to Nintendo that we want the title, it’s doubtless that some kind of deal could be reached to bring the title here.

But slinging around hyperbole and acting like a bunch of children isn’t an effective way to make an argument for the game, nor to be taken seriously in our desire for a North American release for this game.

In short, calm down - the petition’s a good start, we just need to work on constructive means of getting NoA’s attention, like the Mother fanbase has. Stop being so mindlessly negative and screaming at the drop of a hat. You’re not doing anyone any favors with your melodramatic overreactions. If anything, the contradictory messages between NoA and Tecmo show the need to strike up a dialogue between the two - there are better ways we can encourage that than throwing tantrums on the internet, as so many are wont to do on this blog at the drop of a hat."

Petitions MIGHT be able to do something.

-Jon T.

Getting tired of reading that word (Hyperbole) anyway if the game was going to sell in the US Nintendo would know, look at TheSources chart on the main page for confirmation that Nintendo may know what they are doing.

The "why" of this is what tempers my anger. There is no good reason for this, and i am more puzzled than outraged (mostly because i don't particularly care for this game)

I mean it's there, it's an established brand, it'll sell. Just do it.

I really hope nintendo just sells the publishing rights, and if they did tecmo doesn't necessarily need to be informed about the sale, obviously Xseed is willing to publish it hopefully they just didn't get their first
come on ubisoft, I don't care if you do a trash job marketing it, just make the flipping game available to the west

Exactly. There isn't a good reason for this, at all.