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megaman79 on 07 May 2009

Yea i think its way to early to say none of these games are coming to US and PAL though. We'll see what's what after E3.

I want Cosmic Walker asap



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famousringo on 07 May 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:
famousringo said:
Blacksaber said:
Hoshi no Kirby? Is that what I think it is...

 

It was on Nintendo's '08 release list, too. They keep pushing it back for some reason...

It cuts pretty deep to see that Nintendo has three times more Wii games coming to Japan than NA this year. Jesus. I know they need to stimulate Wii demand more in Japan but how many freakin' billions of dollars does North America have to pay Nintendo before they start giving a shit about us?

They'll probably add in a couple more NA games before the year is out, but three times!

 

Aren't you forgetting Japan gets lots of games that are never localized, and that it could be the cause of that more than not caring?

Then I would say that Nintendo fails at its own strategy. They like to claim that they target a game to as broad an audience as possible, but if 50-60% of their games aren't fit to leave Japan, they're cutting out a way larger potential audience than just women and older people.

Nintendo's latest financial states that over 80% of their sales come from overseas. How much sense does it make to have over half of their games made exclusively for less than 1/5th of their customer base?



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Azelover on 07 May 2009
famousringo said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
famousringo said:
Blacksaber said:
Hoshi no Kirby? Is that what I think it is...

 

It was on Nintendo's '08 release list, too. They keep pushing it back for some reason...

It cuts pretty deep to see that Nintendo has three times more Wii games coming to Japan than NA this year. Jesus. I know they need to stimulate Wii demand more in Japan but how many freakin' billions of dollars does North America have to pay Nintendo before they start giving a shit about us?

They'll probably add in a couple more NA games before the year is out, but three times!

 

Aren't you forgetting Japan gets lots of games that are never localized, and that it could be the cause of that more than not caring?

Then I would say that Nintendo fails at its own strategy. They like to claim that they target a game to as broad an audience as possible, but if 50-60% of their games aren't fit to leave Japan, they're cutting out a way larger potential audience than just women and older people.

Nintendo's latest financial states that over 80% of their sales come from overseas. How much sense does it make to have over half of their games made exclusively for less than 1/5th of their customer base?

They do a lot of experimental work.

But then again, I think NOA is trying to save resources by focusing on the very big hits. And I don't just mean localization and marketing resources, but branding as well. Reggie wants to save wood for potentially the very brightest fires, and I think NCL shares the same idea for their NA approach at this time.



trestres on 07 May 2009

Terrible, enrages me to see NoA being a f***ing joke all the time. This is the exact same lineup we got like months ago, no new games added, nada. While Europe got 1 more NPC and 2 new games added. Lol, sad, sad.



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ctk495 on 07 May 2009

I wonder why will happen to the Wii hardware sales when DQX hit Japan.