XSEED no longer publishing Muramasa: The Demon Blade in North America

XSEED Games has confirmed today that the company no longer has plans to publish Muramasa: The Demon Blade in North America.

[TheColbertinator]

:'(

[Smacktard]

I heard that another company is picking it up. They better or I'm gonna flip.

[TheColbertinator]

Its a risky IP to publish.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

This was like the only game other than Tatsunoko vs. Capcom I was interrested in on the Wii....

Here I thought the excitement for games on the Wii couldn't get any lower.

[Smacktard]

It sold like 90% of its shipment in Japan in the first week. This was the game I was most looking forward to out of any game coming out. IGN said that another publisher has picked it up already. I hope it's not Nintendo, or else "LOL NO PUBLISH 4 U"

I really hope this gets released ;_;

[ButterToast]

Wow, winter being canned, nintendo not publishing fatal frame 4, and now this. :'(

[N4g_null]

It's still coming let the ink dry.

[AAACE5]

Whoever picks it up, I hope it goes multiplat! I really don't want to buy a Wii just for this game. I wonder if it is coming to DSi?

[Seferoth75]

@buttertoast, Winter was never greenlit to be cancelled. Had you even bothered to read about it you would know this. FF4 was a bad game with horrible controls. If Nintendo published it you would simply use it as yet another excuse to hate on them for bad games.

Murmassa is still coming to the US. they just have another publisher now who wanted it more. Not like the US release is cancelled.

[Baron79]

This is the worst gaming news I've heard in while...hope someone else picks it up.

Importing is expensive.

[Gue1]

The worst? Man, Fatal Frame 4 is not getting an American release either! Things are getting really bad!

[Thoreau]

nintendo, publish this game.

[SpoonyRedMage]

Agreed, hopefully someone will pick it, perhaps Sega or even Namco or SE or someone?

Bottom line, someone needs to pick this up!

[Seferoth75]

Someone already picked it up.. Geez.. does the article not even say that because the original press release from them did. they didnt say who picked it up though.

[deno]

This is horrible news. If this game does not get released, I will sell my wii. My most anticipated game for 2009 is this game.

[xabmol]

Fackin WEAKSAUCE!!

The Wii Dolphin has our back though. >8]

LOL All this talk about piracy and now we're literally forced to download it. xD

[Figboy]

this was one of three games that was really tempting me to pick up a Wii, despite the fact that i hate how the Wii looks on my HDTV.

hopefully it will still get an NA release at some point.

[callahan09]

Why is it that all of the Wii games I'm actually interested in seem to be staying in Japan and not coming out in America? And the Wii has ridiculous region protections making importing a real inconvenience. Gah. Horrible news!

[Pheonix03]

PLEASE Atlus! Pick this up! No one deserves to publish this in US more than you! Especially after their phenomenol localization of Odin Sphere!

[Figboy]

are the reasons why i was really looking forward to Muramasa Blade.

it sucks, because i lost my Odin Sphere save when my PS3 died, so i haven't beaten it yet (i don't have the time yet to play it right now).

i had invested about 20+ hours into it before losing the save.

[S M N]

what the hell, this the game i'm waiting to finaly get a wii and now this

[Gambus Kahn]

I mean how could you not release the best game on a Nintendo system. What next, discontinue the Zelda series? This fu@king sucks!!!

[Argento-Nox]

Ahh crap, this was one of the titles I was hoping to push me to buy a Wii (-_-);;. I really like Odin Sphere, so it'll be a huge disappointment if Muramasa doesn't come to N.A, just like Fatal Frame 4.

[kesvalk]

man... fragile, fatal frame and now muramasa... it's almost a conspiracy...

and of course, nintendo isn't even moving about -_-
i hope this games get released.. soon, or i will blow up nintendo myself...

[Redempteur]

This a a REAALLLY BAD NEWS
Muramasa is a gorgeous looking game and quite a technical one too.

First it looks good
Second it play fine with the nunchuk setting
Third , the japanese voices were excellent
Fourth It's NOT a short game
Fifth The story s fun too

And where is my fragile localisation bandai !!???????

[MetalProxy]

I would have bought a Wii so I could play this game. Heres a better idea turn this into a down loadable game for the PSN/XBL...
*throws red turtle shell across floor and smashs a mushroom in yo face.

[Xander-RKoS]

According to the article, it's still coming to NA, just XSEED is not publishing it. So no worries.

[Gen0ne]

Somebody... anybody.... please! Don't let this slip away. So close to release and they pull the rug right out from under me. I am sad sad sad. Hey, if gems like Okami, Mad World, and No More Heroes are any indication, XSEED made the right move ( unfortunately ). Nintendo, I shake my fist at thee for the changes you've made to the gaming landscape. Games like this eat $#!* while Carnival Games sets sales records. I was counting the days for this one. Come on Atlus, someone needs to fill Nintendo's stagnant Blue Ocean with some significant life forms. Oh yeah, and Spirit Tracks is NOT the big Zelda announcement I was hoping for. Humph! * arms crossed/tapping foot*

[UltimateIdiot911]

Well, that sucks, I was actually looking forward to this even though I don't have a Wii.

[Nugan]

Oh no, another unnecessary panic caused by a failure to actually read an article before posting hysterical comments.

Note this quotation from the full article:

"There’s no word yet on who the new publisher of Muramasa is, but an announcement is expected relatively soon."

IGN's article on this topic says something similar.

Muramasa is still coming to North America, just not courtesy of XSEED. I suspect this means a more prominent (and powerful) publisher outbid or out-manuevered XSEED for publishing rights. It is not at all like XSEED (who published Rune Factory: Frontier and are publishing Arc Rise Fantasia and Little King's story) to pass on a title like this, so I'm inclined to believe it was stolen from them.

[Da One]

it then I'd say no,but I don't think XSeed would have missed this one so you could be right but then again we don't know the terms of the publishing agreement................

[Seferoth75]

From the article people
"There’s no word yet on who the new publisher of Muramasa is, but an announcement is expected relatively soon.
" Gotta be Nintendo. Only company i can see coming out and taking a game away from another publisher. Which is great news if it is Nintendo. Game will be a million seller for sure with their name on it.