The games some American Wii owners have been pleading with Nintendo to release in the United States are finally being translated to English and released⊠in Europe.
In a body blow as devastating to American Wii loyalists as the one the floored King Hippo, Nintendo of Europe announced today that theyâll follow up the European August release of role-playing game Xenoblade Chronicles with 2012 releases of action game Pandoraâs Tower and acclaimed (from-the-father-of-Final-Fantasy) RPG The Last Story
All three games were made and released in Japan. All three are thought to be pretty good. All three have not been released in America, despite fan pleas, petitions and a letter-writing campaign that involved sending meat to Nintendo of America headquarters.
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Through the summer, Nintendo of America has responded to questions about releasing those games in the States where Wii games have run dry with a few variations on the âno plansâ/ânothing to announceâ answer. Theyâve disappointed the unknown number of people who would actually buy these games.
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On the other hand, if Nintendo of Europe is releasing them, that means theyâre being translated into English. That means all NoA has to do is toss them in a few boxes, truck them out to a bunch of GameStops, buy a few banner ads, and â voila! â they get some inexpensive hits! Or they risk making Nintendo fans fume, and surely Nintendo of America doesnât like to make Nintendo fans fume. [UPDATE: It has come to my attention that some readers of this story did not realize that this paragraph was ripe with sarcasm. I regret not making it more obvious.]
A spokesperson for Nintendo of America told Kotaku today that there is âno change in the status of those two gamesâ, The Last Story and Pandoraâs Tower, for America.
My fellow Americans, donât fret. Perhaps weâll get the Wii U earlier in 2012 than those lousy Europeans. If youâre super-hardcore and super-angry, you might want to figure out how to get European Wii discs to play in an American Wii.
Nintendo announces packed 2011 line-up of upcoming games [Official Nintendo UK site, via Joystiq]
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