As part of a fan revolt against Nintendo of America, many fans have banded together under operation rainfall to preeorder Xenoblade (Monado in the US)  on Amazon, moving i up 62,800%  to #1 overall in the video games section of Amazon.com. At a certain point, hopefully NOA will release this game in the US esp. considering it has already been translated to English for Europe's release in Sept. 
 

So the internets protesting again......

Ugh, so whats everyones beef with nintendo this time, i mean, importing isn't a whole lottta money, especialy from europe.

Is it really worth it to do this when the hardcore fans are gonna get it one way or the other, nintendos got their reasons.

There is also a letter-writing campaign going on and they are being bombarded by comments about Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower on Facebook.
 
I wouldn't call this a revolt against Nintendo, more like a request.

62,800% is quite a leap forward.

@rebgav said:

@UnrealDP said:

nintendos got their reasons.

I can't think of a single valid reason to refuse to take a big pile of money.

I know right? They literally have tons of people lining up at their door money in hand ready to get down.

It's just a bunch of fans saying they want to play that game and not have to mod or buy another console to play it.

@UnrealDP said:

So the internets protesting again......

Ugh, so whats everyones beef with nintendo this time, i mean, importing isn't a whole lottta money, especialy from europe.

Is it really worth it to do this when the hardcore fans are gonna get it one way or the other, nintendos got their reasons.

It's okay for Nintendo to ignore their core market? If it's just as easy as importing; why isn't Nintendo just bring it over? I understand the Japanese to NA thing. I understand the NA to Europe thing. I don't understand when you have a game IN English, and you just let it sit there. Especially when you're trying to get the core audience back

It is nice to see our 'gamer' community rally together like this in an attempt to make a big corporation listen to the fans who never have and never will abandon them when their 'casual' money making audience are long gone. I'd like to see a fairy tale ending to this but who knows.

 
This may be the efforts of a vocal minority and I have a feeling that if this game is released the sales will not reflect the fervor shown by the fans. 
 
I think Nintendo should release this game on the wii shop channel, reducing their costs and satisfying customers at the same time.

Two things that piss me off:
 

1. Monado? Seriously? That name fucking sucks.
2. WHERE IS THE FIRE EMBLEM LOVE!? If you guys are gonna bother Nintendo about something, at least bother them about a game that doesn't have a guaranteed release outside Japan, yet.
   

Stuff like this makes me happy I don't have an affection towards Japanese games. I couldn't bear knowing a game I loved, or could love, doesn't really have a release and I'd have to learn another language just to play it. (May not be the case for this game, but a lot of Japanese titles, yes)

really hope this works cause I have been craving a good jrpg for a while now.

@Video_Game_King said:

Two things that piss me off:

1. Monado? Seriously? That name fucking sucks.
2. WHERE IS THE FIRE EMBLEM LOVE!? If you guys are gonna bother Nintendo about something, at least bother them about a game that doesn't have a guaranteed release outside Japan, yet.

Man, we get it. You want Fire Emblem over here. I sympathize. I do. But you have to understand that it's not the only game to have been seemingly forgotten.

Additionally, you should study up on what a Monad is. :P

When did they change the name to Monado?   Xenoblade sounds alot better.

@Marz said:

When did they change the name to Monado? Xenoblade sounds alot better.

It's been Monado here in North America for a few years now.

I'm probably not going to buy the 3 games that are in the forefront of the import movement (Monado, Last Story, Pandora's Tower) but I'm all for more games coming to America even if the games aren't going to sell in the millions.