Who exactly?squall23 said:Yes, it's one of the girls from AKB48 cosplaying as one of the characters for a commercial.
Would love some character art on this or something.
Who exactly?squall23 said:Yes, it's one of the girls from AKB48 cosplaying as one of the characters for a commercial.
Lol I figured it was.squall23 said:That'd be a spoiler.
Fiorun
Thanks for writing. As an RPG fan myself, I can certainly appreciate your interest in that game. To answer your question, Nintendo has made no official announcement about this game being cancelled; rather, Monado: Beginning of the World (aka Xenoblade) has been officially announced for release in this region, though it has not been given a release date yet.
Sadly you are the millionth person to post this.Cow Mengde said:Hey guys, this is an e-mail reply from an NOA customer service:
It's not some robot reply, but there might still be some hope for this after all.
I found this from a place you GO to find Nintendo news.
This. The reps have the same information we do; it's on a release list. The same one that we had in 2009. It has not been removed, but that doesn't mean it is coming out.BocoDragon said:Sadly you are the millionth person to post this.
Fuck that "Monado is still scheduled" auto-response.. it means nothing one way or another.
BocoDragon said:Sadly you are the millionth person to post this.
Fuck that "Monado is still scheduled" auto-response.. it means nothing one way or another.
Let me in said:This. The reps have the same information we do; it's on a release list. The same one that we had in 2009. It has not been removed, but that doesn't mean it is coming out.
I wish you luck.klee123 said:Gonna dust off my Wii this weekend.
I think it is a person... but I bet their computer database of "answers" hasn't been updated in awhile. The fact that they're calling in Monado basically confirms this.Cow Mengde said:Really? I didn't know that. I remember years ago a friend showing me the annoying robot replies from NOA regarding Fire Emblem Fuuin No tsurugi. I guess they actually find someone to handle these kinds of e-mails instead of some auto reply.
Cactus said:Kirby was on it for a ridiculously long time before we finally got confirmation. Remember, there's still over a year before the Wii U is released, with almost no Wii games scheduled for the first half of 2012. I still think we see it.
BocoDragon said:I think it is a person... but I bet their computer database of "answers" hasn't been updated in awhile. The fact that they're calling in Monado basically confirms this.
Monado was announced long ago at E3... so it was "announced" for the US market... but the fact that NoA has never said anything about "Xenoblade" since indicates that no decision has been made regarding a concrete release. It's essentially unannounced for the US.
ShockingAlberto said:I know it sounds like I'm beating an agenda drum here, but from everything I have heard, localization became tightly-clenched when Sin & Punishment 2 bombed.
Brazil said:I wish you luck.
He calls it "Monado (aka Xenoblade)".Cow Mengde said:He does call it Xenoblade.
I'm certainly not hoping that it doesn't come out, but I also think past is prologue with NOA. And Xenoblade isn't exactly a flagship Nintendo property.Cactus said:Kirby was on it for a ridiculously long time before we finally got confirmation. Remember, there's still over a year before the Wii U is released, with almost no Wii games scheduled for the first half of 2012. I still think we see it.
BocoDragon said:He calls it "Monado (aka Xenoblade)".
Which tells me that it's a real person reading off a screen that allows him to say "Monado is announced" and adding his own knowlege that this is the project now known as Xenoblade.
That he can only officially confirm Monado confirms how old and unreliable that "announcement" is.
ShockingAlberto said:I know it sounds like I'm beating an agenda drum here, but from everything I have heard, localization became tightly-clenched when Sin & Punishment 2 bombed. As far as I can tell, NOA was never all that keen on the game being made due to the U.S. sales of the VC game, but NCL in Japan thought that the second game should do a lot better. After all, people bought the first game, clearly a longer, better sequel should sell better, right? And then it failed everyone's expectations.
Yeah, I'm not attempting to justify it to any extent, I'm just offering what I have heard.charlequin said:I feel like it's important to clarify here, though, that this is a reasonable explanation of why people making poor, short-sighted decisions driven by unprofessional grudges, poorly thought out ideas, and an institutional mandate to half ass their way to victory would handle their localization business so terribly, but not really a justification.
In a creative industry, being aggressively risk-averse is basically like standing up and admitting that you suck so bad at your job that trying to do it properly will guarantee failure. Literally every Nintendo success in the past seven years has been one of ambition and risk and every failure or disappointment has been one of refusal to budge outside of overly safe comfort zones.
Gvaz said:A game that was mostly only targeted to S&P fans went under because they figured they'd get more people? Well I never
I don't know that it was sabotaged, per se. The commercial wasn't amazing, but it existed, and was aired with demographics that you kind of have to advertise video games to in America: Adult Swim, Spike, G4.Marrshu said:Seems pretty lame that a game that was sabotaged in the first place is the bar for everything else that's coming out.
It was.Ridley327 said:I thought S&P2 was greenlit largely on the back of the better-than-expected sales S&P1 racked up on VC, particularly the US region?
Ridley327 said:I thought S&P2 was greenlit largely on the back of the better-than-expected sales S&P1 racked up on VC, particularly the US region?
Makes sense. I'm not sure why Nintendo, of all companies, would think that the sequel to a game that was released 10 years ago that only recently found its way outside of Japan, particularly one in a genre not exactly known for stellar sales figures in any region, would be a sales driver.ShockingAlberto said:It was.
I think this was the problem.
Nintendo expected it to sell well because S&P1 sold well. NOA thought it wasn't going to do well because the market for a $12 VC game coming to America after a number of years and a full retail game were different. In the end, expectations were too high.
M-PG71C said:I just noticed that we're also not getting Solartorobo Stateside as well, it'll be another NOE exclusively published title.
In case we need to jog our memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_jvykk61jw
July 1st is when it comes out and I'll be importing it too, I can't give up the spirtual successor to Tail Concerto. I would say fuck NOA again, but they are bringing in DQMJ2...so...
Keep in mind... Solatorobo will only work on an American DS or DS Lite.M-PG71C said:I just noticed that we're also not getting Solartorobo Stateside as well, it'll be another NOE exclusively published title.
In case we need to jog our memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_jvykk61jw
July 1st is when it comes out and I'll be importing it too, I can't give up the spirtual successor to Tail Concerto. I would say fuck NOA again, but they are bringing in DQMJ2...so...
Oh fucking hell.BocoDragon said:Keep in mind... Solatorobo will only work on an American DS or DS Lite.
Because Solatorobo is DSi enhanced... it will be region locked from working in any foreign DSi, DSi XL or 3DS
BocoDragon said:Keep in mind... Solatorobo will only work on an American DS or DS Lite.
Because Solatorobo is DSi enhanced... it will be region locked from working in any foreign DSi, DSi XL or 3DS
BocoDragon said:Keep in mind... Solatorobo will only work on an American DS or DS Lite.
Because Solatorobo is DSi enhanced... it will be region locked from working in any foreign DSi, DSi XL or 3DS
Don't quote me on it, of course. No one's actually confirmed anything... But it is DSi enhanced and all DSi enhanced games have been locked... so you can infer it will beBrazil said:Oh fucking hell.
Oh. Wait.BocoDragon said:Don't quote me on it, of course. No one's actually confirmed anything... But it is DSi enhanced and all DSi enhanced games have been locked... so you can infer it will be
It's probably possible to play it on a DS flashcart in an American DSi or 3DS....
ShockingAlberto said:It was.
I think this was the problem.
Nintendo expected it to sell well because S&P1 sold well. NOA thought it wasn't going to do well because the market for a $12 VC game coming to America after a number of years and a full retail game were different. In the end, expectations were too high.
M-PG71C said:I just noticed that we're also not getting Solartorobo Stateside as well, it'll be another NOE exclusively published title.
In case we need to jog our memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_jvykk61jw
July 1st is when it comes out and I'll be importing it too, I can't give up the spirtual successor to Tail Concerto. I would say fuck NOA again, but they are bringing in DQMJ2...so...
Diffense said:The funny thing is that I bought S&P2 new and I purchased the VC game as well.
I guess if the present localization policy is what NOA thinks is good for business there isn't much any of us can do about it.
However, they should know that there is more to business than immediate dollars and cents but there are aspects of quality, branding and customer satisfaction.
Going in, I never thought this generation would be the one that I say Nintendo has lost my business as far as home consoles are concerned.
I can we won back, but whereas I automatically bought a GC and Wii, Nintendo will have to earn my Wii U purchase by having a compelling library of games available FIRST.
The faith I had previously that their machines would suit me has been destroyed.
And they accomplished this feat the only way they could, by not releasing their own damned games.
ShockingAlberto said:To go further on that line of thought, a kind-of-drunk NOA employee once ranted at me for several minutes about the weak dollar and she explained how that affects pretty much everything they're allowed to do.
:lol That trailer is terrible. They should not have bothered dub the subtitles. Aussie accents and J-pop don't mix.M-PG71C said:I just noticed that we're also not getting Solartorobo Stateside as well, it'll be another NOE exclusively published title.
In case we need to jog our memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_jvykk61jw
July 1st is when it comes out and I'll be importing it too, I can't give up the spirtual successor to Tail Concerto. I would say fuck NOA again, but they are bringing in DQMJ2...so...
Ramune said:Not to say I won't be there when there's compelling software, but that's the point. Compel me with something besides Mario and Zelda Nintendo!
I love me some Mario and Zelda too!
No. Solatorobo is being published in Europe by NoE, but it's not a Nintendo game. Xenoblade on the other hand is a Nintendo game -- and Nintendo literally never licenses their first/second party games to other publishers.Bel Marduk said:Hope for Xenoblade or no?
I like this short-sighted and narrow-minded point of view. Even in hard times, Nintendo could always count on a rather huge fanbase that dutifully buys their systems and games. But instead of throwing this part of their audience a bone or two -- even if that means taking a small loss -- they apparently regard their success as bulletproof, so that they see no reason to support that audience. You know, the few people outside of children who bought the GameCube for example. It's even funnier when taking into account that the 3DS hardware sales are absymal all over the world as of now.ShockingAlberto said:At the end of the day, NOA is a business that does not want losses.
ShockingAlberto said:I'd be willing to bet the decision not to bring Xenoblade or Last Story likely has to do with the belief that console JRPGs that are not named Final Fantasy simply don't do well in America. Whether that's well-founded or not is up to debate, but I'm guessing that's the logic here.
Effect said:The more I think about this game and the situation around it (along with The Last Story), which is most likely not healthy at all, the less excited I get about the Wii U. If this is how Nintendo is going to act now then I see no reason to believe they'll act differently in the future. I'm starting to feel there is no reason to believe them when they say or suggest they are trying to "win back" the core or stop the core they have from leaving. Bah.