They brought over The Last Story, but it looks like they're passing on the final Operation Rainfall title.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/31386
A localization of Pandora's Tower or Retro Game Challenge 2 is not in the cards at XSEED, according to members of the staff who answered questions on Kotaku last week.
Despite bringing The Last Story to North America last week, an XSEED representative plainly stated "I don't believe [Pandora's Tower] is in consideration right now."
Nintendo of America brought over Xenoblade Chronicles earlier this year, and currently, Pandora's Tower is the only Operation Rainfall game to not make it to North America.
Regarding Retro Game Challenge 2, an XSEED representative said "Sorry, man. That ship has sailed."
That comment goes in line with a prior comment, which stated that Retro Game Challenge was one of their biggest flops. At E3 2011, we asked XSEED about the possibility of breaking up the Retro Game Challenge sequel into DSiWare titles, and they said that the DSiWare file size was too restrictive to make it feasible.
You know, with Nintendo embracing Digital Download now with NSMB 2 and they've said Wii U games will also be available online, I wonder if we could end up seeing more games like Pandora's Tower in North America on the Wii U. Since putting games up online is much much cheaper then releasing them at retail, I wonder if NOA might start releases some of these more niche games online with the Wii U in the future, since it gives them an easy way to please the hardcore fans on the internet, without it costing them anything.
Since NOA has no problem bringing over Japan only games on the Virtual Console, it's not that hard to believe they'd bring over games from Europe that are already in English. It kind of makes me wonder if Pandora's Tower and the Fatal Frame 2 remake could get a North American release thanks to the eshop in the future on the Wii U.
After the e3 no show, imported both this and Project Zero 2. Haven't had time to play either yet, but wanted to snag them before they got scarce. Ended up getting both for something like $90 total from Game.co.uk, so if you're Wii is equipped to play PAL games, it's not a bad way to go.
I think we'll probably get an indication of that when (if?) Nintendo releases the final hardware specs for the Wii U so we can see how big the HDD will be. I'm not convinced that Nintendo's going to jump into digital downloads for retail games on Wii U like they have on 3DS. Considering their random support for the Virtual Console (especially when it comes to niche titles), I wouldn't count on it. It would be a nice gesture, though.
eShop! eShop! eShop!
