DLurkster Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Pretty exciting news. I hope this doesn't take away from this news but does that mean Mother 3 have a chance of being translated for real or Itoi not gonna let Nintendo or who else to translate the game? Link, the Hero of Dreams 1 Quote Link to comment
Stephen 776 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) This is neat, and $6 is a solid asking price given the QoL changes and localization (coding English into old games isn't an envious task), but wtf is this digital only game available until 3/31? Please stop with the Nintendo vault. Anyway, do we know the details of the 30th anniversary collection? If it's a decent asking price, I might consider it, but if it's over $30 I'd probably only consider the standalone game, if that. Edited October 22, 2020 by Zora Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
Doc Brown Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) It's $50, same as Mario was at Walmart. https://mobile.twitter.com/Nintendeal/status/1319305029967175680 Going with the standalone game myself too. Edited October 22, 2020 by Doc Brown Quote Link to comment
Stephen 776 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: It's $50, same as Mario was. Going with the standalone game myself too. That's unfortunate. I'd swallow that price for a Genealogy release, but not this. 14 minutes ago, DLurkster said: Pretty exciting news. I hope this doesn't take away from this news but does that mean Mother 3 have a chance of being translated for real or Itoi not gonna let Nintendo or who else to translate the game? I'd hedge my bets on no. Fire Emblem fanbase is extremely eager for content between Three Houses and Heroes--there's an audience for this. By contrast, anyone who's interested in Mother 3 has probably emulated the damn game by now. The scale of the project is different--mother 3 is just more text heavy and involved than a 30yo NES SPRG. Fire Emblem 1 has a sweetspot of eager audience and modest effort that few Japan-only games can hit. Edited October 22, 2020 by Zora Quote Link to comment
Eliwood8 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 It'd be nice if this was just part of NES Online but since it's translated to English and has some bonus features I guess I don't mind ponying up $6 for it. It'll be a neat little piece of gaming history to have on my Switch. Nintendo had better cut it out with this limited time availability for digital downloads though. Really no excuse for this for digital games aside from a marketing ploy. Link, the Hero of Dreams, Ridley Prime and Doc Brown 3 Quote Link to comment
Tyranogre Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Just now, Doc Brown said: It's $50, same as Mario was. https://mobile.twitter.com/Nintendeal/status/1319305029967175680 Going with the standalone game myself too. Mario was $60. ----------- $50 is fine for a bunch of collectible trinkets, but this "limited time only for a digital game" shit has got to fucking stop. Doc Brown and Ridley Prime 2 Quote Link to comment
DLurkster Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 1 minute ago, Zora said: That's unfortunate. I'd swallow that price for a Genealogy release, but not this. I'd hedge my bets on no. Fire Emblem fanbase is extremely eager for content between Three Houses and Heroes--there's an audience for this. By contrast, anyone who's interested in Mother 3 has probably emulated the damn game by now. The scale of the project is different--mother 3 is just more text heavy and involved than an 30yo NES SPRG. Fire Emblem 1 has a sweetspot of eager audience and modest effort that few Japan-only games can hit. I forgot about the nicheness of Mother fans, knew about how text heavy that game is tho. But how does that explain how some games from the DQ series have heavy text and they got official translations? I know it cost a pretty penny to get those done isn't the demand plus it might be worth it in the long wrong compared to Mother 3? Quote Link to comment
Doc Brown Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 5 minutes ago, Tyranogre said: Mario was $60. ----------- $50 is fine for a bunch of collectible trinkets, but this "limited time only for a digital game" shit has got to fucking stop. Was going to fix that. It (Mario) was $50 at Walmart. Yea, just glad that the digital base game is available separately. Agreed. Quote Link to comment
Link, the Hero of Dreams Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 $6 for a game that already has a remake on the- ... Not really sure about this one. If it was New Mystery of the Emblem, or any of the other untranslated games we never got, I’d be down for it. Genealogy might be a hard sell... maybe M for Mature it? I dunno. Quote Link to comment
DLurkster Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Everytime I see this 3/31, my mind travels to Furukawa. He really is a shred business man, with his background international bank, worked with NOE and the Pokemon Company. I think he knows exactly what he is doing to make sure the fiscal year ending on that date looks overimmaculate financial wise. Why else as q coincidence that yeah their fiscal year ends there and you do the best within your means to make as much money but this guy is really making sure that he not only delivers the goods but outright smash the goal they want to achieve. I feel like if he keeps this up he will eventually burn the consumers he seeks to fill their pockets. That's just a wild take with all this limited time shit. Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
Dancing Mog Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 The limited time availability is just annoying at this point though it's only been for the Mario games so far. The collectibles included for the bundle look really nice, especially an art book of that size but i likely won't get it myself. Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
Stephen 776 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, DLurkster said: I forgot about the nicheness of Mother fans, knew about how text heavy that game is tho. But how does that explain how some games from the DQ series have heavy text and they got official translations? I know it cost a pretty penny to get those done isn't the demand plus it might be worth it in the long wrong compared to Mother 3? Why are we bringing up Dragon Quest? Nintendo published Dragon Quest IX as part of a partnership with Square Enix, and although it's clear the marketing fell onto Nintendo, the localization proper fell onto Square Enix (source)--I suspect the same is true for VI, VII, and VIII. Moreover, nurturing Dragon Quest as a NIntendo series (every DQ game has reached a Nintendo system since) had a huge payoff in Japan proper, where Dragon Quest is more popular. By contrast, Nintendo would localize Mother 3 by itself, for a franchise that seemingly has no future, to sell said game to an audience who--pragmatically speaking--already owns the game via emulation; none of this is in common with Fire Emblem or Dragon Quest. Edited October 22, 2020 by Zora Quote Link to comment
Chrom Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 I'm gonna be so sad if I miss the preorder window for the 30th Anniversary Edition. purple_beard 1 Quote Link to comment
DLurkster Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 15 minutes ago, Zora said: Why are we bringing up Dragon Quest? Nintendo published Dragon Quest IX as part of a partnership with Square Enix, and although it's clear the marketing fell onto Nintendo, the localization proper fell onto Square Enix (source)--I suspect the same is true for VI, VII, and VIII. Moreover, nurturing Dragon Quest as a NIntendo series (every DQ game has reached a Nintendo system since) had a huge payoff in Japan proper, where Dragon Quest is more popular. By contrast, Nintendo would localize Mother 3 by itself, for a franchise that seemingly has no future, to sell said game to an audience who--pragmatically speaking--already owns the game via emulation; none of this is in common with Fire Emblem or Dragon Quest. Okay, I understand. I didn't know or forgot that SE did all the hardlifting with the DQ translations. With that said that makes more sense ontop of the Mother series being niche that the translation won't be worth it and be done by Nintendo. Thank you for that. Quote Link to comment
alienboyva Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) I'm not really into FE (I do have SD on DS and TSS for GBA on 3DS, which was an ambassador game), though I have to admit, this is pretty awesome. Now if they could only officially localize Mother 3. . -___- Edited October 22, 2020 by alienboyva Quote Link to comment
Chrom Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Update: I didn't miss it. Eliwood8 and alienboyva 2 Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 I really have to wonder what is behind all these limited release windows Nintendo keeps dropping for games. Especially, when all of said games offer the digital equivalent too--like why discontinue it digitally? Why discontinue it physically so soon? I mean, they like money right? I don't buy CV19 issues even if I might buy production facilities of physical media could have hiccups but... Quote Link to comment
Kezay Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 That collector's edition is glorious! Quote Link to comment
Stephen 776 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 2 hours ago, purple_beard said: I really have to wonder what is behind all these limited release windows Nintendo keeps dropping for games. Especially, when all of said games offer the digital equivalent too--like why discontinue it digitally? Why discontinue it physically so soon? I mean, they like money right? I don't buy CV19 issues even if I might buy production facilities of physical media could have hiccups but... Given 3/31 is the end of the second financial quarter, I have no doubt this is just using FOMO to make money quickly to make their Q2 report look less bad. Quote Link to comment
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