I'm not the least bit surprised by this news.

No surprise there.
Good news for America.
My copy should be arriving later hopefully.

Nice! May have to pick this one up.

Operation Rainfaaaaaalllll...!!!!!! Power to the people!!!!

Nintendo is giving up the publishing rights? NoA has really fallen behind NoE...

This is great news! Now all we need is Pandora's Tower, which could be announced at E3...

The XSEED bit is surprising to me. NoA still wouldn't publish something they thought would be a little risky?

Two down, one to go--I'm still looking forward to Pandora's Tower the most!

Wake me when Pandora's Tower is announced for release in NA.

Finally!

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!111111oneoneeleventyone!11

Excellent! Hopefully, it will sell well and later NOA will be sorry for not releasing it in the same way Sony public said about Demon's Souls.

I knew it :3

Next up, Pandora's Tower.

yeah!

Tons of news lately! I'm stoked! Who's stoked? I'm stoked!

@Monteblanco LOL

Love XSEED. If NoA wouldn't even publish this, Pandora's Tower doesn't have a chance without XSEED or Atlus...

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was just the news I hoped to come here and read this morning!

2 out of 3 is fine with me. Xenoblade was 9 out of 10, Last Story was 8 out of 10 and Pandora's Tower was the one I was least interested in.

Everybody seems to be real excited about this game...haven't played much RPG's myself. Is there anything someone could possibly compare this game to?? (Haven't played Final Fantasy games if that means anything...except for the first one for about 20 minutes and kept getting killed by these big horses.)

XSEED never disappoints!

Now if only something could be done about One Piece games...

That's great!

But where's Mother 3, Reggie?

@Joshers744 honeslty if you haven't played much RPGs then it's hard to compare it and tell you why we are all excited about it.

Yyeeeeeeessssss!! The Wii lives!

@popyman Pandora's Tower is made by Nintendo. What are you talking about?

...F--k yeah!
Shame on NOA for not picking it up, but whatever, I'm buying it day one.

Thank god! Now I don't have to modify my Wii to play this amazing game!! Been so excited about it ever since the reveal, and I am very pleased to hear it will make a US launch now. Tears of joy

Perhaps people missed the part where NoA was partnering with XSeed for the publishing of the game? Seems to me like NoA has its hands full atm and asked someone else to pick up the slack

My Wii is broke, so I've missed out on Return to Dreamland, Skyward Sword, Xenoblade, and now this

Hopefully you all enjoy it though. At least I can keep myself busy with all the 3DS games coming out.

yessssssssssssss (10x)

great, it'll be just in time for the release of the better HD capable system. Wouldn't want to just release them in all the regions together or anything to keep support high for the only involved adult oriented games that can compete with HD systems.
Now we just have to wait for all the complex de-europization; i.e. take out all the cricket matches and replace all the "chips" with "fries" (and ad 50 pounds to all the characters).

It's time to jump for joy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt_j96Pgwhw

Oh, eff yes!!

@bezerker99 Xseed is not nintendo. And so operation rainfall did not work.

Stupid Nintendo of America!!!!!!!!!

Great job XSEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The objective of operation rainfall was to create interest in those games.

NoA is awesome. Thanks for continuing to bring the core games to your loving fans!

@lz- this article doesn't mention that, so its naturally many people missed that, assuming its true
@siavm- OR's objective was for these games to get localized. NOA is a vessel to do so, not the objective itself. Don't be biased.

@Lordlz

...or maybe NoA wasn't going to publish it unless someone else did all the heavy-lifting and they could just profit. You know, sort of like how GameStop partnered with them for the Xenoblade release in North America.

...or maybe NoA just have small hands if changing the region and pressing discs is too much effort to handle?

@Objection: the bottom line is that we have no proof whether OpRa worked or not, but i'm sure they'll be patting themselves on the back anyway, lol. it irritates me when people start flipping their lids when things aren't announced for a/n (insert region here) release NOW NOW NOW — patience is the key. :3

Best. Birthday. Ever.

Are you happy, dear americans?

Surprise or not, my response is:
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"
A squeal of joy!

Now who doesn't expect pandora's tower next, huh? I mean We westerners finally got 2 awesome RPG's that weren't originally supposed to be released here (?) but they are coming!

@Objection: Nintendo announced it, not XSeed. This means they had a hand in the publishing as well.

Great, never underestimate the power of the people.

@Lordlz: They have a lot of pressure from the fans, they just want to take some credit for the localisation. After all it is a Nintendo game, so it would only make sense for them to reveal it after all of this.

2 down, 1 to go

but of course we still are missing a few certain wii games: Pikmin 2, Another Code R...

@ville10: Oh yeah, I'm sure Nintendo wants credit for this. After all, heaven forbid that XSeed take all the credit for something that Nintendo gave them permission to publish.

2 down, one to go

This is AWESOME

I lost hope at first, but now this is truly awesome.
If this (and Xenoblade) sell well, Nintendo better take a hint to localize more quality JRPGs

@Lordlz: Sure, it's very much possible Nintendo may be helping out in more ways than just handing XSEED the publishing rights. Fact remains though, Nintendo wasn't willing to publish it themselves, nearly costing a whole region the chance to play it.

good news, i was hoping to here this today!

YESSSSSSSSSSS

Not surprised in the slightest, but I am happy

Great now all the idiots that were going on and on about Operation Rainfall will will be going on on how Operation Rainfall worked. Operation Rainfall did not work it was the publisher who came to the decision to release it in NA. Petitions do not work ever. I was hoping this wouldnt get released so I didnt have to hear those idiots go on and on abut how Operation Rainfall worked.

@tasuki: who gives an eff? we're getting it! Would you rather it not get released here just so the operation rainfall people will be sad? That's stupid!

And now that I read your whole comment, yeah you did hope that. Wow, just ignore them. We're getting an awesome game, who cares about operation whateverfall?

OH MY GOD, AM I DEAD!!

Enjoy Americans! Hopefully you'll get Pandora's tower too, then you won't be behind us on first party wii RPGs.

YES! Yesterday I was frustrated because the u.s version hasn't been announced. Now i'm happy, nice to see some more rpg's.

I know some people roll there eyes at pony stuff, but for RPG fans, I think this augmentation of a line from Rarity works wonders.

Ahem...

"Of all the best possible things... this is THE. BEST. POSSIBLE. THING. EVER!"

Two down, one to go! Then we can start asking about Earth Seeker and Ace Attorney Investigations 2 (I know, AAI is Capcom, but Ii still want it over here, lol).

YAY's
i'm'a gettin this!

Yay! Now the Americans can celebrate a substandard JRPG and pretend better doesn't exist on the other consoles along with the rest of us!

Congratulations, guys!

Tis a good day indeed.

@Choco

Party pooper.

Oh hell yeah.

Pinch me, I must be dreaming! Hell hath frozen over!

Thank you Nintendo and especially XSEED!

This game looks great. I'm definitely buying it as soon as possible along with Xenoblade.

Hurray! Project Rainfall worked!

About time. Now it's time to hope for Japanese voice option even though I know it won't happen.

@ChocoGoldfish XENOBLADE IS GOD'S GIFT TO JRPGS!!!111

Magic Emperor wakes up and, knowing that Nintendo had a big Direct Conference, visits Nintendo Life. He finds this piece of news and immediately breaks out into elated song
Everything is great! Everything is grand! I got the whole, wide world in the palm of my hand...!

@chocogoldfish

I just was curious if your opinion is based on you have played them already, or you just want some attention?

@ChocoGoldfish: Oh noes. Whatever will we do when we enjoy an RPG that's not Chocobo-approved?! We must fire up the torches!!

This is a cause for celebration!

Hooray! Finally, some good news!

@zionich - Finished the Japanese game, working through the English version. Making more sense doesn't make the game better.

@LordLz - Glad someone knows what's what.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I might have to get this.

2 out of 3 aint bad. Man where am i gonna get the money for this? So broke.

The Wii is dead..... ............. Thats rubbish talk. LOL

F**K YES!!!

It kind of cheapens the experience now that everyone gets to play.

I cannot wait for this. Xenoblade and The last story. The Wii sure is going out with a bang. Proving once again the Gameplay>>>>>>>>>>>>Graphical power.

SWEET!!!

Thank you NOA!

Very nice!!

Wonderful news indeed.

In order to support Xseed for doing this, I am ordering Solatorobo right now. And good thing this is not exclusive to any retailer either.

Does it matter how we're getting the game? The point is that we're getting it.

Some people like to over analyze everything.

just to make it clear; project rainfall has not made this; thanks nintendo of europe for translating it and xseed for releasing it US

Well awesome. My Wii wasn't dead on Skyward Sword's arrival like I figured.

Hope I can scrounge up enough money for a pre-order so I can show Nintendo what's what in my little way.

@Gamesake

You're honestly disappointed?

That's some great news, I'm glad xseed is responsible for the US release, I bet they approached Nintendo about it!

Well, it seems NoA still can't be bothered to do this themselves, proving why they are the worst branch in the company right now, but whatever, I've been hoping for the game to get a NA release and XSEED has stepped up to the plate. I'll definitely be pre-ordering this and picking it up day one.

The Last Story + Xenoblade Chronicles = Best-Gaming-Year-Ever

@Malkeor

I'm dishonestly disappointed. It will be great to finally see what Hironobu Sakaguchi has in store for the Wii.

curious if xseed is going to re english dub it

@Lordlz
NoA having their hands full? From what I've been seeing lately, NoA has the least to do and is doing the least out of all the other regions. Even Europe and Australia are releasing more games than America and they also get awesome special editions.
Thank goodness XSeed stepped in to publish this first party Nintendo game (even though it's from Mistwalker, the IP is owned by Nintendo too) in NoA's place

@Gamesake
You had me worried.

@Jarod
I'm wondering the same thing

@lordlz-
"Nintendo announced it, not XSeed. This means they had a hand in the publishing as well."

Or they paid for the event, which is about THEIR system that the game is for. Unless it is explicitly said, don't just assume NOA did anything.

I don't know how anybody could be thanking NoA. They didn't have the guts to publish the game themselves, eventhough it's apparently a Nintendo owned ip. That's absolutely pathetic. All the credit goes to XSEED for doing what NoA didn't want to do. Hopefully they get rewarded for it.

I feel good that he still has a little more life to the Wii

@Gamer83: Okay, don't thank NoA. They'll keep all the IPs to themselves and let no one publish them. I honestly don't understand the whole "they didn't have the guts to publish the game" ideal. Perhaps XSeed begged them for it?

Also, food for thought, XSeed's using the European translation.

@Lordlz: That is good to know about XSEED using the European translation for the game. I heard some of the voice samples and they sounded pretty good. Glad to hear that they are sticking with that.

I am wondering if the US will be getting the Limited Edition like Europe. It would be nice to have but either way I am just grateful that we are getting this game period.

Is so happy that Sakura faints.

What surprises me is that Nintendo did not publish his own franchise in America when hiso in Asia, Europe and America Ossianic but the request to another company.

What surprises me is that Nintendo did not publish his own franchise in America when hiso in Asia, Europe and America Ossianic but the request to another company.

@lordlz-a good point, but one that can be interpreted both ways, and we can only infere which one is true.
On one hand, Nintendo possibly reached out to make sure the game got released because they "couldn't" or else XSEED saw that and asked for it and Nintendo priviledged them.
On the other hand, should we be that grateful that NOA didn't do its darnedest for this game to NOT be released? It's not like it hurts them, its mutually beneficial for the game to be released.

Anyways, I'm going to try to stop debating this. The important thing is we're getting TLS sometime this year.

I don't really mind who publishes the freakin' thing, we're getting it, isn't that all that matters? sheesh guys