Pandora's Tower not coming to America.

http://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/posts/126089684142160

"Thank you for your enthusiasm. We promised an update, so here it is. We never say “never,” but we can confirm that there are no plans to bring these three games to the Americas at this time. Thanks so much for your passion, and for being such great fans!"

Wow, I dont know whats worse, this, or the fact they got everyone excited by saying "STAY TUNED FOR A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT" just to go "Yeah no, sorry."

And god they basically went "Thanks for being our bitch! :D "

Wow, from a strictly PR standpoint, wouldn't just ignoring them be less harmful than "no"? It's an announced "no" at that!

edited 29th Jun '11 6:06:31 PM by deuxhero

I dont know the logic behind any of this.

A build up for an announcement just to go "Hey you're awesome, but no, you dont get it."

Its like they did it on purpose.

Hmm. Looks like it's time to brush off the murder-suicide pact i signed with Nintendo in my own blood.

From Rainfall to Shitstorm.

Ai.

Wonder if there is any chance of a third party garbing it, given it is alreddy translated.

(still playing on the organ)

Probably not worth the hassle to them.

Oh well, glad I have a hacked Wii.

The only one I would have missed is Xenoblade...maybe...I'd rather have the Norse god Sword and Sorcery game where you fight giants.

Hmm, the Wii U will likely bring an end to Wii firmware updates and possible bricking, possibly moding then.

Oh wait... Europe pays out the ass for games doesn't it?

Hackers will always find a way.

I was hoping for at least one of these games. Surprised they didn't at least consider Xenoblade with all the preorders it got. Oh well, the RPG I'm really looking forward to is Tales of the Abyss on 3DS.

I was on the fence about getting a Wii U, this has pushed me over it. Nintendo's promise of caring about the core is hollow. I used my Wii mostly as a GCN (which I had in a closet). I'll be sticking to my PC instead of paying another $250+ for a 2nd Wii.

See you again in 5-6 years Nintendo!

edited 29th Jun '11 6:28:31 PM by deuxhero

This.

"Thanks so much for your passion, and for being such great fans!"

This is my favorite part. Oh well...more shit to import when I get around to it...eh.

edited 29th Jun '11 6:31:46 PM by Aondeug

...brb, crying into pillow.

HOW CAN THEY ANNOUNCE IT SO HAPPILY

Dissonant Serenity?

SUCKS FOR YOU BITCHES!! >=D

I'm kidding. I think America might need the sympathy it can get right now.

I thought this was pretty funny, actually, although I don't know if that was their intent. I wasn't looking forward to any of these though.

Well, they said there's no plans at this time. Still a very slim hope and still kind of a dickish way of giving the announcement, but I dunno, maybe just maybe they said "at this time" because they might talk to publishers and licensors in the future. Probably not.

Y'know, I used to be a pretty big Nintendo fan, but...

I'm starting to get really irked with how Nintendo of America is actively contributing to the complete lack of anything other than shovelware for the Wii. I'm beginning to think it's not worth picking up Nintendo consoles because they're not actually going to support them in any meaningful way.

Then again, given the mostly harsh reception of Japanese games in the US recently (FFXIII, for example) and the complete lack of pretty much any Japanese games at E3, I can't say I blame them for not seeing the audience, or for judging the audience to be too small in comparison to licensing costs.

It still really, really sucks, though.

That... might explain some of it...

I don't get it. Back in the PS 1 days only extremely Japanese games never got imported. Stuff where you played as Ultraman parodies or something. And sometiems they came anyway.

Why are Japanese RPG games suddenly considered unprofitable?