Board 8 > South Africa is a more important market in Nintendo's eyes than the US[Rainfall]

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Blulum
07/31/11 9:45:00 AM
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http://www.nintendo.co.za/NOE/en_ZA/news/2011/iwata_asks_xenoblade_chronicles_33086.html

No wonder this company's stock dived 21% in one day, they literally have the business sense of a mentally handicapped chimpanzee.

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KanzarisKelshen
07/31/11 9:49:00 AM
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lol NoA

just release the game already and stop missing out on free money

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Blulum
07/31/11 9:55:00 AM
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I know. I really want to give Nintendo my money...but they won't let me. I don't understand why they don't want my money.

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GuessMyUserName
07/31/11 10:44:00 AM
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holy wow

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LeonhartFour
07/31/11 10:45:00 AM
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Sounds like I need to go back to South Africa.

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TheCodeisBosco
07/31/11 10:47:00 AM
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I've always been really confident that NOA will release Xenoblade eventually, and I still am. Slowly but surely, though, I'm starting to wonder if they really are stupid enough to pass on localizing this.

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The Real Truth
07/31/11 10:54:00 AM
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lol

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BoshStrikesBack
07/31/11 10:55:00 AM
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Literally just trolling at this point.

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Team Rocket Elite
07/31/11 11:16:00 AM
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It's dated May 11th. That's before Project Rainfall, wasn't it?

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Blulum
07/31/11 11:18:00 AM
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It's dated May 11th. That's before Project Rainfall, wasn't it?

I used the tag as this is relevant to rainfall/people that are interested in Xenoblade, not to imply that this was some kind of response to it or anything of that sort.

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Blulum
08/01/11 2:11:00 PM
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The European launch trailer is out!



Why doesn't Reggie want my money.

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hyrulelsl
08/01/11 2:15:00 PM
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Nintendo fire Reggie already!

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Jeff Zero
08/01/11 2:17:00 PM
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Next up: Xenoblade gets Antarctic release date, limited edition codenamed "Icefall" by Nintendo of America

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Blulum
08/01/11 2:17:00 PM
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Considering how much more successful Nintendo has become under him, that's obviously a very unreasonable request. I just want games I'm interested in to actually be released here, why are games like Fortune Street and Mystery Case Files higher priority for NoA than something like Xenoblade? It's disgusting.

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Bigwig_rah
08/01/11 2:19:00 PM
#15:


Blulum posted...
The European launch trailer is out!



Why doesn't Reggie want my money.


I dunno why, but :35 really made me laugh.

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Blulum
08/02/11 8:39:00 AM
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Bump

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Heroic Mass Carrier
08/02/11 8:58:00 AM
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What the....South Africa's a video game market?

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LeonhartFour
08/02/11 8:59:00 AM
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Yes, they do in fact sell video games in South Africa.

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Blulum
08/02/11 9:00:00 AM
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Apparently. I never would have guessed myself considering South America doesn't even have a Nintendo branch, they have to import everything. But yes, this game is being released in third world countries and not in the most consumeristic country in the world. Nintendo logic. I do not understand it.

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Octillery
08/02/11 9:40:00 AM
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South Africa doesn't have a video game market. The games are sold as "Collectible Frisbees"

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LeonhartFour
08/02/11 7:34:00 PM
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Announced before Project Rainfall

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LeonhartFour
08/02/11 7:43:00 PM
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From: UltimaterializerX | #023
They have done NOTHING since Wind Waker


What were you saying about blind, ignorant people?

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Blulum
08/03/11 4:42:00 PM
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Wind Waker is a good game and so is Twilight Princess, but it is pretty disappointing how Nintendo literally started Operation Moonfall to distract people from Rainfall when they probably intended to remake Majora's Mask all along.

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Blulum
08/03/11 6:48:00 PM
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Wind Waker was a good game. It's just disappointing how Nintendo literally started Operation Moonfall to distract people from Rainfall when they probably intended to remake Majora's Mask all along. Now when they make it they can be all like "-See-, we do listen to our fans!" while completely dodging the fact that apparently Mystery Case Files was a bigger priority for NoA than Xenoblade or Last Story.

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Blulum
08/04/11 3:52:00 AM
#27:


Not letting this die because this board needs a Xenoblade topic!



So gdlk

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YetAnothrShadow
08/04/11 4:03:00 AM
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Sig pic relevant.

I don't even want Xenoblade that much and I'd buy it if it was released stateside. Just to really show support for this Anti NoA bull**** policies movement.

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Blulum
08/04/11 4:05:00 AM
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Hahahaha Reggie

If there's anything positive about us not getting Xenoblade, it's the photoshops we've gotten out of it.

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Jeff Zero
08/04/11 4:06:00 AM
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Thanks for that financial commitment, YAS. If only it were enough to make this happen. D:

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Blulum
08/04/11 4:08:00 AM
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I really wish I knew what Nintendo was thinking, I don't think it's even a financial thing. Are they afraid that JRPG's have a reputation for being nerdy games and it might ruin their image with their casual market or something if they release it? It sounds absurd but there is no logical explanation for their actions to begin with, you have to start combing through absurdities to try and figure them out.

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janembaman
08/04/11 4:19:00 AM
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Oh my god jesus im just a lurker and I read the pharse "Nintendo is terrible since Wind Waker and they sell crap and the fans buy it no matter how bad it is" so many times by that person that calls himself UltimaterializerX

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YetAnothrShadow
08/04/11 4:27:00 AM
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janembaman posted...
im just a lurker a

I somehow find that hard to believe.

Besides. It's just Ulti.

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Dauntless Hunter
08/04/11 4:28:00 AM
#34:


I could not be more frustrated with this.

This news seems perfect for making a joke where you change the lyrics of Africa by Toto from "I bless the rains down in Africa" to something about Project Rainfall and South Africa. But it's just not coming together. The best I can do is "Bless Project Rainfall in South Aaaafrica", and that's terrible.

Ugh.

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janembaman
08/04/11 4:37:00 AM
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I somehow find that hard to believe.

Im just here for Anagram Pokemon topic and Best DS game contest
But when I see a topic bashing Nintendo I read it,and that UltimaterializerX is usually the star of the party for some reason
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Dauntless Hunter
08/04/11 4:38:00 AM
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From: janembaman | #035
I somehow find that hard to believe.

Im just here for Anagram Pokemon topic and Best DS game contest
But when I see a topic bashing Nintendo I read it,and that UltimaterializerX is usually the star of the party for some reason


hey remember imdapartystar? whatever happened to that guy

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Blulum
08/04/11 1:25:00 PM
#37:


But when I see a topic bashing Nintendo I read it,and that UltimaterializerX is usually the star of the party for some reason

Ulti gets most of the attention in pretty much any topic he posts in, this board is obsessed with him.

He's wrong about Wind Waker though, if I had to pinpoint a key moment where Nintendo changed in the past 10 years, it would be the release and success of the DS. That is what taught them that having "fun" new interface gimmicks and marketing is more profitable than developing great games. It's what turned them into something of an Apple clone. They've shown they still have the ability to make good games and do from time to time, they just don't have the drive to do it as frequently because it's not what really makes them money now.

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Blulum
08/05/11 4:34:00 AM
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Probably just Amazon screwing up but

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Please don't be just Amazon screwing up...

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Senjougaharaism
08/05/11 5:12:00 AM
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honestly if NoA does end up releasing xenoblade it would sell so much more than before this entire rainfall thing. it would make them marketing geniuses

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Blulum
08/05/11 5:15:00 AM
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It's only genius if they intended that effect from the start. But it's true, I hadn't really heard about Xenoblade at all before people got all angry at it. I'd heard about it but the fact that it had Xeno in its name meant that I pretty much instantly wrote it off as probably terrible, I had no idea it was so different in concept from Xenosaga.

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Blulum
08/05/11 1:09:00 PM
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Bump

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