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why did NOA made a deal with gamestop to exclusively sell xenoblade chronicles ?
- Thread starter L.O.R.D
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sixteen-bit
Member
To drive up interest in their online store, where they also sold the game
mrmickfran
Member
Because NoA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FytfkDSOSwY
I don't know. Expected low sales? I really wish it was more widely available.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Probably because they shopped it to other retailers to see if they would stock it and the answer from enough stores was "No" that they chose to cut off a few for a more focused target.
TheXfactor
Member
They love scalpers
ShockingAlberto
Member
holy shit
The Shogun
Banned
Because if GS wouldn't have bought / payed for it, it wouldn't have released in NA
But how do you _really_ feel?
did Nintendo hurt you as a child?
ShockingAlberto
Member
I feel like people overestimate how many stores would want a Wii JRPG in 2012.
How well were JRPG's doing in NA around this time? Something that gets brought up a lot is saying how risky it would be to localize big JRPG's because JRPGs didn't seem to be doing well in this market around that time. If that was the case though, Nintendo probably did see it as a risk so they limited supplies and made an exclusive GameStop deal.
What localization? It was already done by Nintendo of Europe.
Flame Lord
Member
I never understood why when game publisher make exclusive deals to sell a game somewhere, it's always GameStop. With all the bitching they do about used game I would think they would choose anyone besides GameStop. After the shit they pulled with Xenoblade (making "used" copies) I hope they never get another exclusive.
So I guess that 3ds port is their way of wriggling out of the exclusivity deal?
Chainsawkitten
Member
GameStop only sells Xenoblade Chronicles?
James Scott
Banned
They probably expected very poor sales (it was one of the most pirated wii games, or something like that which is likely why it wasn't localized right away)so they probably made a deal with GameStop to maximize revenue/minimize costs of publishing the game.
Tidus_Great
Banned
why does anyone get exclusive content it helps drive consumers towards your store or product. simple as that.
ALLseeingEYE
Member
Probably because NOA is kind of dense, and doesn't realize that actually promoting the best JRPG of the entire last generation would cause it to sell. They likely also don't realize how much faith they lose with the hardcore gaming community by purposefully not releasing excellent games.
I may be mistaken, but I seem to recall reading that Gamestop actually made the deal with Nintendo, not the other way around, and may have even had a hand in it coming to America?
But regardless, when you consider that The Last Story and Pandora's Tower were both brought over by XSeed, and the Norse-based game (I forget the name) was never brought over, I think it's pretty obvious NOA had no interest in localizing these JRPG titles. The deal with Gamestop was more likely than not the only way the game would've came over.
But regardless, when you consider that The Last Story and Pandora's Tower were both brought over by XSeed, and the Norse-based game (I forget the name) was never brought over, I think it's pretty obvious NOA had no interest in localizing these JRPG titles. The deal with Gamestop was more likely than not the only way the game would've came over.
which is also NoA's fault for not releasing it when NoE released it in Europe.
Nope, Video Games Plus sells new copies as well.
terrisus
Member
I didn't say "Translation," I said "Localization."
Europe is not "local" to North America.
The Shogun
Banned
The selling power of GameStop is 2nd to none thats why.
There was only one shipment, right? And it didn't have that many copies. Even still the game was readily available in stores for like ~5 months post-release. Demand for it only started to bubble after the availability eventually dried up.
What else did they need to do, other than change region codes?
Didn't Best Buy get stock in Canada, too? Or am I remembering this wrong.
Fox Mulder
Member
Because NoA sucks.
This. The exclusivity deal got Xenoblade its U.S. release, full stop.
ShockingAlberto
Member
I am not sure 2011 would have made a dramatic difference, either.
delete a couple of u's?
BronsonLee
Member
Nintendo wanted to hedge their bets, and they did it before with Electroplankton, IIRC.
You're about to get hit with a lot of boring localization talk, prepare yourself.
but the tldr version; a lot
You're about to get hit with a lot of boring localization talk, prepare yourself.
but the tldr version; a lot
That, testing, certification, manufacturing and distribution... off the top of my head
terrisus
Member
If nothing else, store them in the US and distribute them in the US.
Unless you want to have each copy flown over from Europe.
why do they need Localization ?
nintendo don't have any money to to it ? so they let gamestop pay for it ?
that doesn't make sense
Why was it released in Europe. It isn't like it is a vastly different market for JRPGs.
Plus the Wii was really hurting for (decent) software at that point.
That doesn't fall under the purview of what Localization means. Those are separate concerns.
The game was available for a good while at the normal price of $50 before the price all of a sudden jumped up to $90. In fact, it worked so well jacking the price up to $90 that they held a sale to move stock at $60 and now the normal price has been $60 for awhile, so this picture isn't even relevant at this point.They love scalpers
ShockingAlberto
Member
I'm not saying they were smart to not release it, I am saying I don't think stores wanted to buy it.
terrisus
Member
Seriously, while this was early 2012, I was working at Best Buy in 2012 when Tales of the Abyss was released for 3DS, and no stores in our entire district stocked it.
I had to walk over to Gamestop in my Best Buy outfit to buy it. Came back with it and was just like "Yeah, I would've loved to buy it here... If we actually carried it."
Reminds me of Metroid Prime Trilogy. The game practically bombed to the point it only got one shipment that didn't moved and even Sears sold it for under $10, because they had too many unsold copies a year later. It was after that, that people started asking for it, damning Nintendo for not making more...and then Gamestop when they restocked it with white cases.