I will tell you like I told Chozo Ghost not too long ago; If you do not like what I post in other people's threads then do not respond to them. If you do not like any of the threads I create then stay out of them. If you have a problem with my writing style then take it up with the moderators. However, I do admit that some of my posts are not well written, but this forum was built for Nintendo fans to express their opions about the industry. Now, I wrote my response above so short because I was in hurry doing something in my house and I just wanted to spur a conversation that I would join later. Thank you.
Dude, you're in my forum thread and you're too annoying to ignore (your intention, I'm sure). 5 seconds of research on the internet or even the faintest
inclination of video game history would answer 95% of your questions on any given topic. And I have no problem with you expressing your "opions" about the industry. Heaven knows I certainly do. Just do the slightest bit of your own research rather than barging into threads and throwing out random questions left and right.
We've already established numerous times on numerous threads over the past couple of years that the Japanese market is dominated by handhelds, largely dictated by their society's focus on close social interaction and lengthy commutes. We've also established similarly over such a period of time that the Japanese love their remakes. The 2D Final Fantasy titles have had more ports and remakes than I can fathom, especially on the handhelds. Final Fantasies X and 12 both had "International" editions that the Japanese gobbled up, along with "Final Mixes" of the Kingdom Hearts games (coincidentally, they just had one for Birth By Sleep). If there's one thing the Japanese gaming industry is good at, it's exploiting its consumers for multiple versions of the same game. So
YES, they would assuredly gobble up a portable rehash of Last Story, especially after the Week 1 sales of the console version.
You know what? I'll go one step further: I have no earthly idea why Mistwalker made this game for the Wii. The Wii has never been an especially noteworthy RPG machine (observe that the PS3 port of Tales of Graces sold dramatically better than its Wii original), not even garnering a noteworthy game (that I'm aware of) from Square-Enix; Atlus; NIS; or GUST (the last 3 being the kings of cheap RPG development). And during the time this game was being created, the PSP was taking off with sales of Monster Hunter and was getting good JRPG support from Atlus (Persona 1, Persona 3). You can argue that they were serving an under-served market (much as Quest did with the great Ogre Battle 64), but it's too late in the console's life cycle to garner an audience already lost to the PSP and PS3. It would have made more sense for them to hold the game for 3DS or NGP, though as a lover of console games I'm glad Mistwalker did not. I just wish that they had picked a different publisher for the game so we'd have a much better chance of getting the game in the West.
I walked into a local gaming store last week and purchased Hyperdimension Neptunia and Atelier Rorona, two extremely niche JRPGs for the PS3. Yet I can't go into the same shop and purchase Xenoblade, and Nintendo has given no indication that I will ever be able to. Mistwalker supposedly made The Last Story to appeal to Western gamers, yet they signed into a deal that made Nintendo the publisher, a company that has shown no inclination whatsoever in bringing such games to the West.