VinLAURiA wrote:So that settles it. Rainfall was the catalyst for this. I think that means we can confidently say that Rainfall was a success, and not just a minor push. That gives me hope for future movements.
For XSEED publishing the game? Maybe.
For Nintendo publishing the game? Not at all.
And wasn't that the point of OP:Rainfall? To get Nintendo to publish the games? Nintendo published neither of them without outside intervention (GameStop, XSEED). In that regard, it failed spectacularly. There is nothing here that shows Nintendo is going to be changing their localization efforts in the future. All it says is that XSEED may be interested in publishing other Nintendo games if given the chance, which may never happen again. And there may be more future GameStop exclusives, which may never happen again. Nothing here says that Nintendo is going to start publishing more of their games overseas.
And I thought that was the whole point of OP:Rainfall. To get
Nintendo, not other companies, to release more of their games outside of Japan.
Besides, both of these games had already been translated into English for the European market. Imagine if neither of them had received a translation before OP:Rainfall. Does anyone honestly believe that any company out there would have put in the money or effort to completely localize them? These games only made it because someone else already did all the hard work. Without that, they would never have been released.
