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Xenoblade North American Localization Looking Dim

Xenoblade Chronicles will be releasing this August in Europe, but it looks like a North American localization for the game is very unlikely.

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Xof5446d ago

The article itself certainly is bullshit. I can hardly understand the point they're trying to make.

"According to the French brand manager at Nintendo of Europe, NoE had plans to bring Xenoblade Chronicles to E3 2011, but Nintendo of America didn't allow it. "

...So Nintendo's Europe division didn't want to display Xenoblade at E3 (in AMERICA)... so Nintendo's AMERICAN division DID display Xenoblade at E3. In America.

If that statement tells us ANYTHING, isn't it that Nintendo DOES, IN FACT, plan on releasing Xenoblade in North America?

Shit article.

Desert Turtle5446d ago

It actually says "According to the French brand manager at Nintendo of Europe, NoE had plans to bring Xenoblade Chronicles to E3 2011, but Nintendo of America didn't allow it."

Which means that Nintendo of Europe (in Europe) wanted to bring it to E3 (in America), but Nintendo of America (in America) didn't allow it because they don't plan on selling the game (in America).

Dumbass.

tunaks15447d ago

stupid NoA,
I guess I'm gonna import this. But TLS and Pandora's Tower will prob never make its way out of Japan.

Spenok5447d ago

This sucks. What is NoA thinking, this would be there hit of the year. Hell what else is coming this year thats actually going to release? (I love Zelda in every way but i wouldnt be surprised if it gets delayed. AND i wont believe a release date unless its like, HEY THEY GAME COMES OUT IN 2 MONTHS! lol)

And the fact they didnt give a firm date at E3 is worrying.

Oh well, as you say we will have to import.

Speaking of which would i be able to play the EU game on my US Wii?

tunaks15446d ago

you wont be able to out of the box, you are going to need a hacked wii running the homebrew channel. Some people arent comfortable with doing that, but its quite easy. Once youve got that all u have to do is get an app calles geckos, it allows u to play games from any region.

RandomGamer5447d ago

Probably another case of oh well lets not release this in North America since no one will buy it because they only like first and third person shooters.

-Gespenst-5447d ago

Why should they localize it anyway? The west don't appreciate jrpgs anymore. I think they should keep it in Japan in an act of defiance.

RoboRyan5447d ago

Actually, one of my biggest complaints about the current generation of gaming is the lack of JRPGs, with the exception of handhelds. The amount of games in genre now can't compete with the what was available back in my PS/PS2 days, and though I'm impressed by Western RPGs as well, I kind of miss having as many JRPGs to choose from. Xenoblade was one of the few upcoming Wii titles I felt excited about.

Redempteur5447d ago

did you just comment to see just how many disagree you can get ?

-Gespenst-5446d ago

Hey I'd like them to localize it, but I just don't think the west deserve it. Jrpgs just get berated over here nowadays because they're not fps' or they're not "western" enough (High fantasy)

I just think the game would be under-appreciated. Unless it's good enough that it could convince everyone over here that jrpgs are still good and still worth their time, but then you have the problem that it's a wii exclusive, so how many people is that gonna reach? Not the audience it needs to anyway...

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CherryLu-Chan5447d ago

I despise Feezamay.
Despise.
Him.

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Xenoblade Series Composer Has Finished Orchestra Recording For Next Monolith Soft Title

Xenoblade Chronicles series composer Manami Kiyota has possibly finished the final orchestra recording for the next Monolith Soft title.

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Zeldafan6474d ago (Edited 74d ago )

Makes sense. It's been nearly 3 years since the DLC for 3 came out. The next Xenoblade or whatever they end up calling it will probably come out next year.

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Ranking the Xenoblade Chronicles games, from best to worst

NE: "Today, we're taking on the difficult task of ranking every single game in the Xenoblade Chronicles series from best to least best."

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repsahj110d ago

For me, Xenoblade 2 and 3 and Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth are the best JRPGs or RPGs in general ever made. Yes, they even surpassed Expedition 33 in my honest opinion. Before, the Tales series was among my favorites, but I was very disappointed with their last game, Tales of Arise. Its world has become linear and not as expansive as their previous games. Fortunately, its battle gameplay is still very good. I hope that in the next Tales game, they will expand the game even more.

Hoping for a new Xenoblade game from Monolith Soft in this year's Nintendo General Direct. And it should be a Switch 2 exclusive.

Sircolby45110d ago

Yeah, Xenoblade 2 and 3 are amazing. I would have put Xenoblade 2 in first and 3 in second if I was ranking them.

Zeldafan64110d ago (Edited 110d ago )

The "worst" Xenoblade game is still better than 95% of games out there. Xenoblade 2 is my favorite rpg ever. All the Xenoblade games have incredible characters, soundtracks, voice acting, stories, world design and combat (save for Xenoblade 1 whose combat, while good, is not incredible).

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Why all four Xenoblade Chronicles games need Nintendo Switch 2 Editions

NE: "We look at each Xenoblade Chronicles game's performance on Nintendo Switch and how each one would be impacted by a Switch 2 Edition or patch."

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Vits181d ago

What makes it even sadder is that if you jailbreak your Switch 1, it actually runs those games better than the Switch 2. Since you can, on the fly, change the rendering resolution and overclock the device to handle it.

I’m currently playing Xenoblade X like that and it’s great, no FPS drops, and even in handheld mode, the game looks very clear. Though, I have to say, I’m still a bit divided on whether I like or dislike the changes they made from the Wii U version. On one hand, everything looks cleaner and the models feel more alive, but on the other hand, it looks less unique.

Zeldafan64180d ago (Edited 180d ago )

Saying X looks less unique is not something I ever expected to read. I think the character models look quite a bit better in the Switch version (not that I thought they looked bad in the Wii U version). The world and monster design are some of the best I've ever seen in video games though I'll still give a slight edge to Xenoblade 2's world design. Leftherian Archipelago is my favorite location in any video game from a visual standpoint followed closely by endgame of Xenoblade 1.

Vits179d ago

If you think the Switch version models look unique, I have dozens of anime titles to sell to you.

Zeldafan64177d ago

I was talking about the world and monster design being unique, not the character models. Guess I should have made that clearer.