greatlink
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Post by greatlink on Feb 28, 2005 2:37:30 GMT -5
Speaking of canceled games, was Yoshi Universal Gravitation canceled for the US?
It was announced for a second quarter of 2005 release under the name of Yoshi Topsy Turvy
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Post by Fryguy64 on Feb 28, 2005 7:43:31 GMT -5
A word of clarification - international news sources must NOT be taken as an announced release. If you read about a brand new Nintendo game, but it's never released in the US, that doesn't necessarily mean it was EVER going to be released in the US. Only when there is a specific announcement that the game is coming out in a specific territory does it count.
I'd not heard Yoshi's Universal Gravitation had been announced for the US, but it has been given a release date for Europe (with the bizarre Japanese name by the look of it - this recent speed of Japan to Europe released seems to be removing a lot of the American-led localisation).
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greatlink
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Post by greatlink on Feb 28, 2005 8:54:02 GMT -5
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Post by Fryguy64 on Feb 28, 2005 9:26:43 GMT -5
Heh heh heh. Well, they should be more thorough in announcing their games then  |
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Post by The Almighty Narf on Feb 28, 2005 10:42:50 GMT -5
Then I've got to ask... is there any site that lists what games are specifically announced for the US?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Feb 28, 2005 18:41:46 GMT -5
Not really. The main problem is sometimes a game is announced at random, with no indication of any planned release regions. Generally they are planned for Japan first, but there are numerous exceptions.
And these things change. Sometimes a game planned for a worldwide release never makes it out of Japan. Nintendo's somewhat erratic scheduling has made for some interesting release schedules lately, especially with Nintendo Europe's GBA translation teams full of beans... we're getting all sorts of US-planned games before the US.
This is why NinDB only covers future titles with release dates at the moment. I'm having a lot of trouble nailing down a format for "general announcements" for this very reason.
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Post by Yamato.EXE V2 on Feb 28, 2005 19:17:48 GMT -5
But you know what's disappointing, they released the Panasonic DVD GameCube Version only in Japan.
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Post by Doubutsu80 on Feb 28, 2005 21:42:42 GMT -5
Howcome we didn't get Earthbound on the NES and the Japanese get? It was fully translated and all of the sudden they just cancelled it. Can anyone tell me why they cancelled it?  |
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Post by The Almighty Narf on Feb 28, 2005 22:05:49 GMT -5
Then I'm probably just going to keep asking about games that weren't actualy announced for the US. |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 1, 2005 4:25:22 GMT -5
Then I'm probably just going to keep asking about games that weren't actualy announced for the US. That's fine, but I get to make increasingly snide remarks Earthbound for the NES was cancelled because the first Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy games did really badly in America, and Nintendo didn't want to risk the same to happen to Earthbound. SO IT'S YOUR FAULT! ;D |
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Post by Solid Snake on Mar 5, 2005 9:22:45 GMT -5
There are some nintendo games released in USA first and THEN Japan(weird, right?) and some just don't get released at All in JAPAN!(I belive this info is in this old website. By the why, why does THAT happen, it's weird...  |
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Post by Doubutsu80 on Mar 5, 2005 10:09:35 GMT -5
How come Japan gets games before North America or Europe.
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Post by Solid Snake on Mar 5, 2005 10:12:20 GMT -5
'cause they're the ones who make them.
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Post by Yamato.EXE V2 on Mar 5, 2005 11:15:06 GMT -5
I remember that Diddy's Kong Quest was a canceled GBC Game for 2001.
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Post by mrmolecule on Mar 5, 2005 16:07:01 GMT -5
Another reason why "Earthbound 0" never came to the US, it would hurt Mother 2's sales. That was unfortunate, because even though EB0 never came to the U.S., EarthBound didn't sell too good either. What a shame.
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