Are The Last Story and Xenoblade Finally Seeing International Release?

Andriasang: There's been some buzz of late regarding domain name registrations and possible English language releases for The Last Story and Xenoblade.

[Shok]

Anyways, I'm positive Nintendo will announce that these 2 games will be localized at E3.

[Nugan]

I actually think we might hear something about Xenoblade before E3. They've already announced the European release, and the Wii's schedule is totally empty. Also, Xenoblade is a low visibility title that would just get buried by bigger announcements at E3.

I suspect it might be released quietly in May to give Nintendo of America a revenue and positive press going into E3.

I do agree that we probably won't hear about a NA localization of The Last Story until E3 though.

[Godmars290]

If so, then my livingroom will finally be hosting a Wii XD

[bangoskank]

Second that.

[eagle21]

Both have had great reviews...Nintendo gearing up for another awesome year. Can't wait for E3! :)

famitsu:
The Last Story 10/10/9/9
Xenoblade 9/9/9/9

[kesvalk]

famitsu is not really a good source of unbiased reviews.

i imported last story, and it's awesome, hope we get a english version...

[Kamikaze135]

If they get released, I'm buying a Wii....again >_>

[ScubaSteve1]

so WHERE IS MY FATAL FAME 4

[Theyellowflash30]

Its out dude, you can get that game english patched if you have homebrew which is really easy to install on your wii.

[ScubaSteve1]

i dont support homebrew dude. i dont support piracy

[kesvalk]

what? since when homebrew is piracy?

[LoaMcLoa]

Just because you soft-mod your Wii, doesn't mean you have to use piracy. The english patch only works with the retail disc.

[GameTavern]

I don't know if a domain registration is much to go on especially when someone pointed out did it over a year ago.

[Capt-FuzzyPants]

I hope so I got really excited abot the Last Story!.!?.)(

[Relientk77]

I really hope they do especially Xenoblade, that game looks awesome

[Ddouble]

Does anyone know why these games didn't sell too well in Japan? This is not to start an argument but I'm wondering how 2 new JRPG IP's with good Famitsu scores didn't sell.

Was it lack of marketing or were the games just not receieved well?

[Shok]

Marketing.

Nintendo isn't exactly the best marketers. They know how to advertise a new console and a new Mario game but they could really care less about any 3rd or 2nd party games, it seems. I doubt the 2 games got that much advertisement.

[Lavalamp]

I think Nintendo marketed Tales of Symphonia for the Gamecube pretty well, which many attribute to the game's success. I dunno. I'm not completely sure how deep the Xeno and TLS's campaigns were, but I remember looking at a lot of commercial spots that Gametrailers.com picked up.