Black-Wind said:
Much more upset with other Japanese companies cause I like RPGs
Nintendo has failed to localize more RPGs in the two years than any international publisher excepting Namco has in the last five. If what you mean is that Namco is a shitty publisher, yes, they are. That doesn't excuse Nintendo.
You had afew points but that has always been the case (Mega Pub keeping titles in one area is nothing new. Nintendo has always done that, I simply wanted to know whats pissing people off soo much right now).
No, they haven't.
Their localization record has jumped off the diving board over the last few years after peaking in 2006. That's the damn point people have been making.
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and you posted in a thread where I proved that this was the case, so you have no excuse to be operating under the delusion that things are not getting worse.
But while we're at it, let's look at your stance on this stuff from that thread:
As for the topic, I don't really care too much. The few games I really want to come over arnt that unlikely to come over for the most part. ( Starfy being one of does which just wont happen.
So, to sum up my post, Im OK for now because I don't really ever care unless it's a title Im interested in . . . thats all, you can carry on with the bitching
Basically, the reason you don't care is because the one game you want to be localized is being localized. ethelred specifically replied to this when he said "Nor do people care that some random internet Nintendo fan is willing to step out on that bold ledge and classify the left behind games as B-rated and thus not really worthy of localization"--that's a callout to you feeling it's okay for a company to undertake an anti-consumer policy.
No one cares which games you want, or I want, or any one person wants. People like different things. I don't give a shit about Starfy. I have the fourth one. It's a mediocre game made for babies. It's like Kirby, only somehow more bland and easier. Why would anyone want this junk?
But it's a great thing that it's being localized, because apparently someone else has the taste to enjoy it. We all have a vested interest to want as much as possible to be localized.
You also wrote:
IMO theres more to this than "Nintendo of Americaz not localizingz as much az they use to! WTF NoA!?!!!", theres more to it than just NoA not wanting to bring shit over. Be it market, image, sells or the economy . . .theres something else here.
ethelred replied to you on this point with this: "The hate is because people have an expectation that mega-publishers won't fuck over their consumer base by releasing a significant number of titles exclusively in certain regions while refusing to either localize them for other regions or allow other publishers to step in and handle those localizations. "
Essentially, it doesn't matter what the cash situation is for a given title. If Nintendo was interested in localizing but unfortunately couldn't manage to make some titles work on a business level, they ought to release those titles to other publishers who will. There are publishers in America who release dozens of titles a year, none of which sell over the mid tens of thousands of units. They make profits. They are leaner and more agile than Nintendo. They can crunch the numbers and make things work.
That Nintendo does not release those titles means that Nintendo is not merely concerned with making adequate profit, they are also concerned with tight IP control to the degree that it is more important to them that their brand and their image is totally under their control than that you or I are able to play games. That's what makes this stupid.
XSeed wants many of these games. Atlus has given a college try to get a few of them. Tecmo just announced that they would love to work with a publisher on FF4.
