Nintendo is SCREWING the US

[brunoafh]

US has been missing a lot more good games that are reaching PAL regions starting since Dreamcast and PS2, I think. Evil Twin, Shenmue 2, SVC Chaos, 10,000 Bullets, several Simple 2000 series games (not all of which are good), Shienryu/Steel Dragon, and a lot of miscellaneous fighters and shooters, and so on. It's not just Nintendo that's doing this.

SVC Chaos came to the US.

[flamepanther]

SVC Chaos came to the US.

Not as a PS2 game, as far as I can tell. I can't find a US release on PS2 on any site I've checked that tracks such things, nor US cover art in a Google image search, nor non-import copies sold on Amazon or eBay, nor even an ISO dump on sites that carry massive collections of pirated PS2 games.

[irixith]

SVC Chaos came to the US.

Not as a PS2 game, as far as I can tell. I can't find a US release on PS2 on any site I've checked that tracks such things, nor US cover art in a Google image search, nor non-import copies sold on Amazon or eBay, nor even an ISO dump on sites that carry massive collections of pirated PS2 games.

It came to the US as an oXbox game.

[flamepanther]

It came to the US as an oXbox game.

And as a NeoGeo arcade game. As a PS2 title though, it's still a no-show in the US, while Europe got a PAL release. I did specify Dreamcast and PS2 in my post, I believe.

[brunoafh]

It came to the US as an oXbox game.

And as a NeoGeo arcade game. As a PS2 title though, it's still a no-show in the US, while Europe got a PAL release. I did specify Dreamcast and PS2 in my post, I believe.

You mentioned the PS2 but nothing more. Shienryu isn't a PS2 or a DC game either, but you mentioned it as well. It came to the US, plain and simple. No need to mince words.

[AppleQueso]

It came to the US as an oXbox game.

And as a NeoGeo arcade game. As a PS2 title though, it's still a no-show in the US, while Europe got a PAL release. I did specify Dreamcast and PS2 in my post, I believe.

You said 'since' the Dreamcast and PS2. Pretty easy to infer that the Xbox counts because it came after those two systems.

You were unclear.

[flamepanther]

You mentioned the PS2 but nothing more.

Really?

US has been missing a lot more good games that are reaching PAL regions starting since Dreamcast and PS2, I think.

Interesting.

Shienryu isn't a PS2 or a DC game either, but you mentioned it as well.

Wrong. Shienryu and its sequel Shienryu Explosion were released on the PS2 in Japan as "Double Shienryu" as part of the Simple 2000 series (volume 37) and in Europe as "Steel Dragon EX."

It came to the US, plain and simple. No need to mince words.

I'm not mincing words. There was a PS2 version. Europe got it. USA didn't. If having to mod your console to play an import when a game already exists in your language is "getting screwed" then so is having to buy a totally different console when a version already exists for the one you've got. Whether a version exists on other hardware is irrelevant to the current topic.

You said 'since' the Dreamcast and PS2. Pretty easy to infer that the Xbox counts because it came after those two systems.

You were unclear.

Maybe. But considering these were all games that were released in Europe on a console that didn't get the game in North America (see also my mention of Shenmue 2), some common sense should have cleared that right up--save for anyone who just wants to miss the point for the sake of being argumentative.

[YoshiEgg25]

Whoa.

The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles may be heading to North America after all, despite Nintendo of America's continued insistence that the company has no plans to localize those titles.

On the official Operation Rainfall blog, a post has gone up claiming that the American localization of Xenoblade has been finished for over a month, and the process is well underway for The Last Story. No word was given on the potential localization for Pandora's Tower, but even with the first two titles, this is a major win for those hoping for more RPGs to play on their Wii later this year.

Although Operation Rainfall was unwilling to disclose their source, who allegedly resides within Nintendo, they maintain confidence that the information is true based on that source's identity.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rumor/27146

[Betamax001]

Whoa.

The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles may be heading to North America after all, despite Nintendo of America's continued insistence that the company has no plans to localize those titles.

On the official Operation Rainfall blog, a post has gone up claiming that the American localization of Xenoblade has been finished for over a month, and the process is well underway for The Last Story. No word was given on the potential localization for Pandora's Tower, but even with the first two titles, this is a major win for those hoping for more RPGs to play on their Wii later this year.

Although Operation Rainfall was unwilling to disclose their source, who allegedly resides within Nintendo, they maintain confidence that the information is true based on that source's identity.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rumor/27146

It's possible that they wanted to keep it a surprise for something. IDK why they just didn't announce it at E3 if they were going to actually release these games. To make the Wii seem a little less dead.

[MrEco]

I'm pretty sure no one posted this yet, but it would seem that Jim Sterling has some choice cut words for the ham-fisted Nintendo of America (Pun totally intended).