WOOOOOOO
First post on Neogaf, and I'm going to dedicate it to talking up Xenoblade and bitching about Nintendo of America.
Baten Kaitos is one of my favourite JRPG's. Disaster: Day of Crisis was tons of fun, and Xenoblade literally looks like the saviour of the JRPG. Everything I've seen and read is amazing, it's radically progressive and yet comforting.
When the game finally comes out in the UK (over a year late but whatever...) I'll rush out to get it without fail and love it in mysterious ways.
Now onto NOA...
I think Reggie should be held to account for not bringing these games out, it's his job to represent Nintendo in North America and he's doing a rubbish job.
This isn't even about a sense of entitlement (even though Reggie is failing at his job, we clearly aren't getting the Nintendo games we should have by now), it's just the ridiculous sense of ill will.
Reggie is making Nintendo LOOK BAD. VERY BAD.
Reggie came out and expressed disappointment that the third parties never took the Wii seriously and it doesn't have the output of games the HD consoles do, and the Wii U is no doubt designed to get those games.
Where is the actual action to back it up?
NEWSFLASH REGGIE.
Call of Duty is NOT a 'hardcore' game, it is a dudebro game. A dudebro game is basically a casual focused game with an emphasis on 'manly' material like SPORTS and SHOOTAN.
Do you know what IS a hardcore game? That would be an 80+ hour JRPG with ridiculous depth like Xenoblade!!!
I mean... come on. You have the winning cards right in your hand and you won't play them.
These two JRPG's are EXACTLY what Nintendo needed to clean up the Wii's horrible image problem. The JRPG genre is in a bad state, and Nintendo have arguable the two BEST JRPG's of the generation.
Nintendo have freaking Fatal Frame. HOW can you possibly get any darker than Fatal Frame?
These are mature games, and not PEW PEW mature but actually complex content.
These games WOULD make a profit, NOA would literally have to do nothing but print disks seeing as NOE already paid the localization bill. If they think the game will bomb and just throw it out without fanfare, then it probably will. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. This is why third parties in general suck on the Wii, because everything they put out is half hearted (if not insultingly bad) and wouldn't sell no matter what the platform.
These games are money in the bank, just maybe not enough to buy Reggie a new house...
Then you have Iwata and Miyamoto coming over and being greeted to jaded ignorant 'journalists' who think Nintendo have nothing to offer. This is ALL Reggie's fault for perpetuating this dumb idea. Miyamoto deserves BETTER than this.
Also... Monolith Soft are artists that pour everything they have into their games, Nintendo bought them (which was genious) and the western arms of Nintendo are treating them like CRAP. Why buy them and then sweep their work under the rug? They deserve BETTER than this.
Reggie is making my Nintendo look like crap (and no matter how much I love Nintendo it's always a downer reading the negative crap), and I'm gonna keep blaming him until it's proven it's not his fault
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