xdaniel Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I'm sure you've all heard about this already (or even took part in it), there's this campaign called "Operation Rainfall" to bring NoA to releasing Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower for Wii in America. The Wii release schedule when it comes to "core games" and/or first-party games is, outside of Skyward Sword and Kirby, rather dire in all western territories, and as Xenoblade will come to Europe in September, and The Last Story is rumored to come here as well, the cost of bringing them to America should be less than when they'd have to take care of that all by themselfs. All they'd have to do is replace "ou"s with "o"s, and for the voice acting they could just say that they're speaking in some weird dialect from the game world. Of course there's still a significant cost for marketing, manufacturing, etc., etc., but I believe that NoA of all companies should be able to shoulder this and get at least a certain part of the investment back, considering all the noise people make about the game(s), and even if only half of those actually end up buying them. Anyway, what's your opinion about all this? I'm thinking that the modern NoE is more like the SNES-era NoA - the quality of certain games may be debatable, but we have ex. Disaster: Day of Crisis, Another Code R, Xenoblade, while back then you had the Final Fantasies, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malqua Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I think that if people want it badly enough, they will make English patches for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 Thing is, at least for Xenoblade - but as it seems possibly also for The Last Story and Pandora's Tower -, there's no need for patches as they're being released in Europe in English - sure, British English, but still English! I understand going straight to making a fan translation for ex. Fatal Frame 4, which hasn't seen release anywhere outside of Japan, but for games being released in the target language, just elsewhere in the world? I think trying to get Nintendo to overthink their decision of passing them over is certainly worth it. Similar thought pattern to what I have about anime or manga releases. "Why do I have to ex. import DVDs, despite having perfectly capable local publishers who could bring out those series here, but don't?" I'm not counting on any German anime publisher to bring over either Toaru Kagaku no Railgun or Puella Magi Madoka Magica, so I'm already prepared to give my money to Funimation and Aniplex USA respectively instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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