Mario Party Superstars is set to receive Brazilian Portuguese localisation from launch when it releases this October, becoming the first of Nintendo's first-party titles to do so.
Over the past few months, Nintendo has been increasingly improving its product availability and services across Brazil, with the Switch officially launching in the country last September. Fans were forced to import Nintendo games and consoles from elsewhere up until that point, but now have access to legitimate local purchase options and a fully functioning Nintendo eShop.
With Mario Party Superstars, Nintendo is taking another positive step forward by fully localising the game in Brazilian Portuguese, a language spoken by the vast majority of people living in the country.
Now, Brazilian fans have started a hashtag campaign to show their thanks and to ask Nintendo for further support in future titles. The image below can be found spreading around social media; alongside the #NintendoBrasil hashtag, the campaign reads, "We love being part of the party! Can we count on more?"
Positive vibes all around here, which is great to see. Here's hoping Nintendo plans to continue this support for Brazilian fans more often going forward.
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Nice to see! The more languages supported, the better.
Great! Doesn't affect me, but that's great for SA!
Leeeeeet's gooooooo for Brazil
well goid for them. they are in for one great game as i think this game is totally going to rock.
Nice to see but to everyone not aware their complaint is that Nintendo tends to localize in portuguese from Portugal (similar diference from English from the UK and the US for example). It is not that big of a deal and actually in most cases other publisher have only brazilian portuguese instead.
Leeeeeeet's goooooooooo Brazil! Thanks NintendoLife for the article and support! Greeting from Brazil! #NintendoBrasil
Finally! I'm portuguese, not brazilian, but the thing I hate most is not being able to fully enjoy Nintendo games with my girlfriend, since she doesn't understand English that much
Actual Brazilian Portuguese? Holy smokes, Nintendo's learning there's a difference!
@Balta666 I believe you are mistaking something. I'm from Brazil and we rarely have games localized to Portuguese, either from Portugal or Brazil.
I learned English so it isn't a big deal to me. However, to most of the gamers around here, it is. Especially because Sony and Microsoft have all of their games localized here.
@Balta666 No, that is not the complaint. Nintendo doesn't translate anything to European Portuguese either. I believe Mario Kart 8 is the absolute only first-party ever to receive any Portuguese translation, until now. Any other company does Portuguese for every single other game (it is usually the Brazilian because well, we're a bigger number of people and a bigger market than Portugal because of that). Is gets to the point that Bandai Namco releases the Switch exclusive Pac-Man 99 in Portuguese but Tetris 99, which is a Nintendo release, isn't translated. It's honestly mind boggling. Right now the only officially Nintendo translated products in Brazilian Portuguese are the mobile games by DeNA which is almost an offense.
That's awesome!
Vamo lá gurizada, dá-lhe!!
"a language spoken by the vast majority of people living in the country"
Well, I would say only indigenous people living far off from cities do not speak it. It is our only official spoken language.
@Lugazz it is not incorrect though. There are small cities in the south where people still only speak a form of German that doesn't even exist in Germany anymore (linguists have actually come here to study that and better understand their language), so it's not just indigenous people. There are also foreigners, immigrants, people who live near borders, etc etc. Our only official language is Portuguese and the majority of the country speaks it, but the minority still exists.
@dux I'm not sure, but I believe that Super Mario 3D Land for 3DS had Portuguese translation (the text only, of course), and it blew my mind back then.
More of my family can play Nintendo? YES PLEASE!!!
Brazilian crank
@dux Yeah I'm well aware of that! I come from the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul hahahahahha It's just that the phrase itself seems odd, you see. For example, if you are translating something to French for release in France, you won't say it's because the vast majority of people living there speak it,
@dux @WagnerDDS apologies if it is not the case. I don't know how many games Nintendo games have the portuguese language as I prefer English by default but even today I checked a video where Mario 3d world was localized
@El_Murcielago apparently you are correct! It and Mario Kart 7 were the first to be localized to Portuguese (European). It is still a terribly small number.
On a completely separated note, Animal Crossing really should take a note out of Brazil and Portugal and make a big June Festival event because there is nothing noteworthy happening in the island right now and Festa Junina decorations would look great in that game, they're really missing out.
I would’ve loved to see this game released a year ago, but can’t complain and will look forward to it. Hopefully they don’t try to charge $60 for yet another port
That is pretty awesome. The more people that can enjoy this game, the merrier. I will be one of those folks!
Awesome news. Surprised it's the first game.
No gamer left behind!
@Balta666 "Nintendo tends to localize in portuguese from Portugal"
That's actually not true.
If games were in Portuguese at all, people would be happy.
But it is one of the most spoken languages in the world and Nintendo ignores it.
There are only 3 Nintendo Games (out of dozens) in Portuguese: New Super Mario Bros U, Super Mario 3d World and Mario Kart 8.
No Animal Crossing, no Zelda, no anything... That is why this is so relevant to us in Brazil.
Thanks for your support, Nintendo Life!!! that is wonderful news for us!
#NintendoBrasil
The more localized languages, the merrier.
Technically, Super Mario Run was the first Nintendo-published game to be localised into Brazilian Portuguese. In Mario Party Superstars’ case, as a Nintendo Switch title, yes, but definitely not the first game in general!
Obrigado for sharing this news as a Brazilian daily reader of Nintendolife, is good to see this coming to reality. Even though I really like the English versions of Nintendo games, localizing them would open the possibility of enjoying them to many Brazilians!
Tchau!
@dux You're absolutely right! They could have a Carnival season in Animal Crossing. It makes perfect sense. Give us some Samba, for God's sake!
Now let's hope for the remaining EU languages to be added. Oh right, no one cares.
Congrats to Brazil, though.
I was already interested in getting it but now I definetely will, to do my part and show that we want more games in pt-BR.
While we're at it, it would be nice if Switch had ABNT keyboard mapping. Most of what I write in Among Us for example is going out without the correct punctuation.
You mean, the first non-mobile Nintendo Game.
Mario Kart Tour is fully localized in PT-BR. Anyway, great news!
@Balta666 actually most of the games arent translated to PT-PT, just some that arent story-heavy like mario U or mario kart
I think this could have been a free or At least $19.99 DLC for the limited current Mario party ;/
Brazilian here. Just created an account to post here. In the 3ds/WiiU gen some Nintendo games were localized to Pt-pt in Europe like Mario kart 8, Mario&Luigi dream team/ Paper jam, Mario party Island tour/Star rush and Super Mario maker.
Due to region lock, most brazilians were unable to enjoy Nintendo games in any variation of Portuguese. During Switch era, WiiU rereleases got Pt-pt if previously translated, however Mario kart 8 only has Portuguese in the EU version, which forces us to pay even more if we want it in a version of our language.
It is definitively a step in the right direction and is a day 1 buy for me. If only Advance Wars gets the same treatment...
@rodrigocoelhoc I've heard of a localized Brazilian version of A Link to the Past, but I'm not sure it's considered "first party" since I hear BR SNES games were licensed to another manufacturer.
Though I've heard that version spoken of once, like the obscure French Canadian localization as well.
I'll sleep better at night knowing this!
Incrível, I hope bigger games end up being properly localized.
I keep getting pleasant news about Nintendo's commitment to the Brazilian market. The other day there were side-pitch Nintendo Brasil adverts on a CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifier game, which was an absolute first.
@Oldwhig yeah, I remember playing dream team in PT portuguese, but the jokes didn't worked out for me as a brazilian, so I had to change back to english. Games with not much text like mario kart or 3d world are ok, but text heavy titles like animal crossing for example would be terrible. That's why is so important to localize brazilian and european portuguese as different languages, it's just not the same.
@KingMike A Link to the Past was never localized but it did receive an official translated title and boxart/manual. It was officially called "Um Elo com o Passado" here, but other than that, the game itself released in English
@El_Murcielago the samba music is actually pretty decent, specially in the large Festivale float. The float itself is a precise-if-smaller representation of Carnaval float parades in Rio and São Paulo. The dancing, though..... We really need a better samba dancing emote hahaha!
But I was talking about Festa Junina, a Portuguese and Brazilian tradition set around warm food, flag decorations and celebrating settlers/camp life, and also line dancing.
That is awesome! I think it's been more than 10 years that (some) games have been localized in Latin American spanish, but for someone who grew up playing NES, SNES and N64 games in just English it still amazes me that there are games in my language. Good for Brazil (and other portuguese-speaking countries)
@waluigi86 definitely, I remember playing Pokémon in European Spanish, being South American, and at one point it felt it so foreign to me, that I basically forced myself to learn English while playing
This is great news. As others have said, the more languages, the better!
Nintendo has been doing better with localizations in recent years with languages like Korean and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), I think. It's great to see Portuguese getting included, too.
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