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NoA President, Reggie Fils-Aime, AKA The Regginator, has been expressing some love for Mother in a interview with MTV Multiplayer:
MTV Multiplayer: We used to talk about "Mother 3" [the highly-regarded 2006 Japanese role-playing game that has never been released in America, despite a fervent Internet fan movement]. And then I stopped asking you about it after a while.
Fils-Aime: I'm a big "Mother" fan. I have to set the record straight on this topic, because I have seen all of the hate comments. I'm a big "Mother" fan. Huge "Mother" fan. I would love to see "Mother" localized in our market. In fact, I've talked to [Nintendo president] Mr. Iwata about it because this is a game he has some history with. [pauses] But it is not on our announcement schedule. [laughs]
MTV Multiplayer: How can that be? [laughs]
Fils-Aime: I am a fan of a lot of different products that aren't on our announcement schedule.
MTV Multiplayer: How could there be something you like, but it's not on the announcement schedule? Take me into the psychology of that.
Fils-Aime: Maybe I'm going to burst some people's bubbles, but just because I'm the president of NOA doesn't mean that every game that I love gets published in our territory. We run a business. And so, in order for a title to be published, the development, localization, launch, volume, all needs to make economic sense.
Ughh, why oh why does this nonsense persist!... I wish they would just localize the game for English speaking regions first, and release the game on DSi Ware. There's no Earthbound SNES situation in respect to this game. With that game, there are legal issues that need to be rectified, but here, there's no viable excuse in my eyes.
It would have been awesome to have got this game in time for the 20th Anniversary of the series, which on the 27th of July. Sadly it looks like fans will be getting jack **** on that date, here in the west anyway. I would like to be proved wrong, but I do hold very litlle hope of anything turning up.
"Well, no, but then what if the bring it and the translation is worse than the fanmade?! Imagine the hate!"
I doubt that would happen, Nintendo's localization team in Redmond are pretty darn good at what they do, you only have to look at examples in recent games to see that.
I think they would be very mindful of what the fans have come up with, and may well pay homage to that with their own work, if they ever get the game to work on.
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