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Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« on: January 30, 2011, 12:58:17 PM »

Iwata believes that the Ubisoft dance title was one of the most important titles of 2010.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/24979

Nintendo has announced via their quarterly financial statement that they will be publishing two third party Wii titles in Japan: Activision's GoldenEye and Ubisoft's Just Dance 2. The success of Just Dance 2 prompted Nintendo to publish the title overseas. Nintendo Co. Ltd. President Satoru Iwata believes that Just Dance 2 was one of the more important Wii titles in 2010, outperforming Donkey Kong Country Returns in November and December in North America.

This wouldn't be the first time Nintendo has published third party titles in Japan. Sega's  two Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games titles were published in Japan by Nintendo. In addition, Nintendo published Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility in Australia.

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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 05:28:36 PM »
Interesting move considering that Japan doesn't typically like First Person Shooters and Goldeneye (despite being a good game) didn't exactly set sales records in the West.
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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 05:50:43 PM »
Which means that the best(and likely only) way for a game like GE to gain some traction is to ride in on Nintendo's own dollar and be presented to the Japanese audience as a Nintendo game.
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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 06:42:44 PM »
Anybody know whether or not James Bond is popular in Japan?
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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2011, 07:02:33 PM »
Quantum of Solace did about $21 million in Japan. and others have also done very well there.
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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2011, 08:29:30 PM »
As far as I can gather, Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 sold decently in Japan, so perhaps that has something to do with Nintendo publishing Activision's version of the game in Japan?
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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2011, 10:48:59 PM »
Quote from: Mop it up on January 30, 2011, 08:29:30 PM
As far as I can gather, Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 sold decently in Japan, so perhaps that has something to do with Nintendo publishing Activision's version of the game in Japan?

It also has to do with the fact that Activision doesn't publish games in Japan anymore. All of the major Activision games like Call of Duty and James Bond Bloodstone are all published by Square Enix.
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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2011, 11:58:48 PM »
Huh, I'll admit I'm a bit surprised that Ubisoft isn't publishing Just Dance 2 themselves.  Do they have a poor distribution network in Japan or something?
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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2011, 12:11:14 AM »
I don't think they publish their own games in Japan (at least they didn't have any games in the top 100 of 2010, and I don't recall seeing them in the weekly charts).
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Re: Just Dance 2 and GoldenEye to be Published by Nintendo in Japan
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2011, 12:13:57 AM »
Quote from: TJ Spyke on February 05, 2011, 12:11:14 AM
I don't think they publish their own games in Japan (at least they didn't have any games in the top 100 of 2010, and I don't recall seeing them in the weekly charts).

Hmm, maybe they need to make more Petz games, really get their foot in the door.
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