GP blogger Caryslan writes, "What makes Nintendo’s refusal to publish Xenoblade Chronicles in America even more confusing is the fact that Dragon Quest is being published by Nintendo in the west. Since Dragon Quest IX, Nintendo had poured money into brining the franchise over here in the hopes that the series will finally reproduce the success it seems to find in Japan. To be fair, Square Enix did request that Nintendo publish the franchise in the west in the hopes of improving its sales but this creates a double standard for Nintendo. NOA will go to the trouble to publish Square Enix’s RPGs in the west, but then refuse to bring their own titles here? While it could arguably justified if Dragon Quest was setting sales charts on fire, the fact remains that Dragon Quest is still not a million seller over here. In the end, would Xenoblade Chronicles have done any worse in the US?
Xenoblade Chronicles composer Kenji Hiramatsu reflects on his work and feels that it's "time for a fresh start."
There is no together at the top. There is only one top jrpg series. Xenoblade Chronicles series is alone at the top
I like the Xenoblades series but my ‘top’ series would be either the Trails series or Persona series. Just too many good games for me to just pick one series though, so I say play them all lol.
I'm not huge into JRPGs, but my favorite is easily the Persona series. It's all opinion though. Xenoblade is a great series.
Tetsuya Takahashi has revealed his plan to make the next Xenoblade vastly different from previous games.
I liked the Xenoblade X formula. It takes awhile, but opening up Mechs was amazing. Especially once you can fly them, and use them in battle. You have to put some time into the game to do it, but it's worth it!
Also, the graphics were more realistic than the other games. Still looks good today, just a lot more pop-in than is acceptable today, hell even too much for back then. It wasn't game breaking though.
Xenoblade 1-3 and X are so great. That said, I'm ready for them to do a big change up.
Some of the best Switch JRPG games out there include the epic Xenoblade Chronicles to the hard-as-nails Dark Souls Remastered.
Me being a Playstation guy and a huge JRPG fan, I can say that the only franchises I actually miss that are on Switch are The Fire Emblem series and The Xenoblade Chronicles series. I've played neither but I've heard good things. I've seen people play Xenoblade Chronicles games on youtube, and it seems like they think it's a big deal so I'm curious.
As someone who doesnt like jrpg’s that much these days I went into Xenoblade Chronicles blind and had a blast. Reminded me of that golden age of 16-bit and 32-bit jrpgs. If thats the era you liked then it should hit the spot.
I only have a Switch for the games that don’t come on PlayStation . There aren’t a ton but there are some good ones.
I agree with top 1, for me xenoblade chronicles 3(and 2) is one of the greatest jrpg to date. It's like the feeling of playing ff7 on ps1 for the first time again. Imagine if XC3 was done with ps5 graphics, that will be magical. I might get the xc remaster before the year ends or after I got the platinum trophy of GoW ragnarok.
I didn’t care for 2 as much . It’s good but 3 is sooo much better than so is the first one imo .
Lol, chill dude.. Xenoblade & TLS will come! If Pandora's Tower comes to PAL regions then it will come here too B)
Dragon Quest X, Rhythm Heaven, Kirby and The Legend of Zelda games are coming too!
To Nintendo's understanding they think the core gamers just want more COD on the their platforms. And I don't blame them, it seems that N. Americans only like to shoot at stuff...
It's a misconception Nintendo has that they, themselves, are only enforcing by refusing to bring over such titles. I'm not buying a Wii, but I'd be far more inclined to do so if the game I'm interested in- Fragile Dreams- was joined by other games I'd like to play- Xenoblade and The Last Story. Since I'm not getting the latter, I won't get the Wii, so I won't buy the former.
Just don't buy anything more Nintendo & let them die off like the Dinosaur they are. They have been robbing us gamers for years, & are just about to repeat the process again by creating buzz at E3 by showing nothing but PS3, 360 & PC footage of there supposed games...This is the type of thing Sony would have been crucified for absolute months about, but since it was only the always kiddie friendly, honest, all for the gamer Nintendo that were lying, decieving & causing unwarranted hype, well it was once again water under the bridge....just like MS's RROD & about a million other discrepancies both Nintendo & MS have committed since there inception into games.
It seems that ONLY Sony's blood can be beyed for by the larger gaming media & trend following herds in todays gaming enviroment. Sony are simply enemy no.1, & have to be destroyed or stopped from dominating the industry a 3rd time.
Sorry if it seems like I'm on a rant, but I just feel the playing field is way unbalanced at the moment for Sony only, & the other 2 get a free pass to do as they please & not suffer near the media & forum repurcussions that Sony would & do. Look at the recent PSN outage, & how Sony were completely blamed by many for being illegally hacked, look at how much negative coverage Sony got for cyber terrorist, thief, criminals causing Sony harm & stealing & looting from the company, then look at how little coverage real stories like the attrocity BP has caused to our earth eco systems health.
I may be slightly, to way off topic, but the point is, just don't buy Nintendo crap....they haven't deserved a cent of my money since directly after the SNES.
I have a feeling that Nintendo are waiting to see how well Xenoblade sells in Europe before releasing it in the US. That would explain why Xenoblade's release date was pushed forward by two weeks.
Perhaps it will be a Wii U launch title.