Former Nintendo Head Dashes Hopes for Mother 3 Localization
Former Nintendo of America big boss Reggie Fils-Aimé has heard all the hopes and dreams of fans, and he still doesn’t have good news for them. Speaking with Kinda Funny Games to promote his new book, the creator of Pizza Hut’s Bigfoot Pizza stated that Nintendo doesn’t have any active plans to bring to the United States despite its dedicated fanbase holding onto hope years after its Japan-only debut on the Game Boy Advance all the way back in 2006.
, which is known in North America as , has always been one of Nintendo’s smaller franchises. The second game in the trilogy made a splash on the Super Nintendo when it was localized, and main character Ness shows up in all entries of the series. This is about as far as it goes for major representation in the West. Even though hopes were raised when the first game in the series hit Switch Online as , Reggie doesn’t think that will lead to any further developments for the missing sequel.
“Don’t hold your breath” is the message from Fils-Aimé, who credits former Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata with pushing through a translation for . Now that Iwata is sadly no longer with us, the passion to see the game hit America may just not be there.
There’s also the problem that ‘s fanbase is what Reggie calls a “relatively small group,” and the quirky RPG series is one that’s hard to make appealing to a more mainstream crowd.
“That’s what the company I’m sure has been thinking about and they just haven’t figured out yet the solution to that, or at least they haven’t been prepared to talk about it.”, he said.
There are plenty of franchises that haven’t seen any love from Nintendo in several generations, including futuristic racer and fellow RPG series . Whether Nintendo will ever get around to
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