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Xenoblade Chronicles Released in Europe Today, Still "No Plans" for US

Posted on Friday, August 19 @ 14:41:11 Eastern by


Along with The Last Story and Pandora's Tower, two additional titles that are coming out in Europe and not in the US, Xenoblade Chronicles has released today across the pond without any word on us.

This has less to do with whining and more about getting a reason, just from a marketing and distribution standpoint. Do they really see such a loss here in the States if they released this game or whole trio here due to, I don't know, publishing costs? I mean, what else is coming out for the Wii this holiday season beside The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword?

It's been a long time since we've seen a Xeno title developed Monolith Soft (not since the rushed Xenosaga Episode III for PS2), so why deny us this game, especially when it has a current Metacritic score of 91. BLAAARGHHH!!!
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  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000

    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
    NoA has always been cautious about releasing these types of games in the U.S. It all probably stemmed from the poor sales of Earthbound when it was released. So when Mother 3 was released, NoA said, "No, thank you" even though fans begged them to localize the game. I kind of wished they let another publisher handle the localization.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
    Love the "WTF" icon.
    Kind of sick of Nintendo thinking American consumers won't respond to these games. Cyberjim probably has a point about past experience, but I think we all need to understand that with the proper marketing these games would sell like hotcakes. There are certainly plenty of Wiis in plenty of homes. Even if 10% of NA wii owners bought these games they'd put up HUGE numbers.
    Just really disappointed.... I guess this is the kind of activity that'll only encourage gamers to mod their Wiis, install all kinds of homebrew software, and "import" these games from the internet.
  • Mobius_Sean
    Mobius_Sean

    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
    Mmmm, if only there were a vast, international network game consoles and PCs could be connected to, to transfer data from one huge system, I'll catchily name a "Data Base", allowing developers to skip the high costs of distribution, and giving gamers access to niche titles that would otherwise not see the light of day in other parts of the world... If only technology would allow machines to perform "Net Work", across this fantastical "Interconnected Web" I have just described and invented.

    Oh well, maybe I'll live long enough to see it... Im thinkin' maybe 2047?

    ...oh well, maybe I'll live l
  • Mobius_Sean
    Mobius_Sean

    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
    Grumble grumble :something about losting from a phone: grumble grumble
  • Barth_Vader
    Barth_Vader

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 20th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
    who the hell cares, it's a jrpg

    jrpgs haven't been good since the nineties

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