26th March 2003, 11:44 PM
This was also in the same mailbox, and I thought it might be an interesting read for some of you:
That's my theory as well. The "release the GBA and GC ones at the same time" one.
I just hope the damn game comes over here.
Quote:Fire Emblem
After reading Peer's hands-on with Fire Emblem GBA about a year ago, I've been waiting to hear more about a North American release. Now I'm hearing about a sequel on the GBA and a Cube version to boot in Japan. Any word on NOA's plans for this series?
-- Gunnar
Peer responds: "Puzzling" is the word that best describes NOA's stance on releasing the game over here. I believe Advance Wars -- with little to no promotion -- sold almost 400,000 units on GBA. And it came out at a time where the platform was still new and the installed base low. Here we have an unknown game selling quite well and moreover, buyers loved it. Fire Emblem: Nintendo's (in Japan) popular RPG strategy game series. It's basically Advance Wars set in a medieval RPG setting. With games like Golden Sun and Link to the Past selling well on GBA, I've got to believe that this title would perform in the US. Even worse, until recently there has been little movement in the RPG genre on GBA. Nintendo is doing its GBA userbase a great disservice by not bringing Fire Emblem to the US. (Initially, the company said that it was confident it would debut the series over here, but now it's all forgotten).
The only hope I have is that Nintendo wants to debut the GBA and GameCube Emblems simultaneously in the US to get more marketing for the buck -- but sadly, nobody's talking at NOA. I'd recommend importing the Japanese game, but it's got oodles of text so you'll definitely miss a lot if you don't read Japanese.
That's my theory as well. The "release the GBA and GC ones at the same time" one.
I just hope the damn game comes over here.