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EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release
« on: April 17, 2013, 11:11:02 AM »

It was BOUND to happen eventually.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/33888

During today's Nintendo Direct live stream, Satoru Iwata has confirmed that EarthBound will be released on the Wii U Virtual Console later this year. 

During this morning's direct, Iwata mentioned that there were many posts in the Japanese Mother 2 Miiverse community from fans in North America and Europe, clamoring for the game's release.

No release date has been set for the game, but Iwata confirmed that it would be out "later this year".

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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2013, 11:18:06 AM »
About. Damn. Time.   ;D

I felt a disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of Ebay sellers cried out of Terror and were suddenly silenced.
 
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2013, 11:25:58 AM »
Hardly.  I seriously doubt this will make any significant difference in the resell price of the original carts.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2013, 11:27:57 AM »
It will. A good part of the demand for old games is people who want a legal copy. If they can get a cheap, legal copy they drop out of the cart market and thus demand drops.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2013, 11:28:09 AM »
Earthbound's coming out this year. All is well in the world.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2013, 11:28:20 AM »
I love how Nintendo's official picture says "Finally."
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2013, 11:34:56 AM »
Quote from: KDR_11k on April 17, 2013, 11:27:57 AM
It will. A good part of the demand for old games is people who want a legal copy. If they can get a cheap, legal copy they drop out of the cart market and thus demand drops.

I just seriously doubt there's a massive amount of people who just want to play the game that:

A) Care if it is legal.
B) Intend to keep it (i.e.: don't want to just borrow it from a friend or flip it after playing it).
C) Would go through the effort of tracking down (and paying for) an SNES copy (and potentially an SNES to play it on)
D) Would fit into all of those above slots *and* would still be willing and content to just download the VC Version.

From the classic games I've watched on eBay, they *rarely* go down in price when a newer version gets re-released.  Sometimes, they even go up.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2013, 11:35:47 AM »
Most surprising announcement for me. Didn't think it would happen... but glad for all the hardcore Earthbound fans who have waited years for this series to re-appear in the West.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2013, 11:36:38 AM »
I'll just repost here where all the cool kids are.

Kowabunga says it all! Kowabunga!!!

The legends surrounding this game are too much to resist. Plus there series had some influence on One Piece, its a day one download for me!


Haha, disturbance in the force.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2013, 11:37:18 AM »
Wonder how they are solving the music rights issues, or whatever it was that arguably prevented a VC re-release sooner in the west?
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2013, 11:37:33 AM »
well... Now I'm going to have to play it.  To tell you the truth I'm not actually looking forward to it.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2013, 11:37:53 AM »
BILL!! YOUR DREAM IS COMING TRUE
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2013, 11:46:10 AM »
Who's cackling now?
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2013, 11:56:37 AM »
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2013, 01:19:39 PM »
Okay now we find out if the demand for Earthbound was a vocal minority or legitimate.  I hope it is such a big seller that it crashes Nintendo's servers.  I want them to see the error of their ways and I hope that it sells well enough to inspire them to offer official Western releases of the other games in the series.  I have an Earthbound cart but I would like legitimate access to the other games and only VC sales of this one will encourage that.

Regarding the value of an old SNES cart, I've noticed that SNES games in general have gone up in price a fair bit in recent years, not just Earthbound but other games like Square titles that for the most part are available on modern systems.  I think the VC has just given retro games more exposure and has inspired more gamers to collect them.  I used to score some total steals on retro games (got Star Fox Super Weekend for FOUR BUCKS!!!) but now it seems that almost all sellers are pretty savy to how much they're worth.  There is just more awareness now.

Earthbound as a cart is valuable partially because it was a sleeper game that didn't get proper recognition until years after it came out.  It isn't the type of game every kid had a copy of like Donkey Kong Country so they're harder to come by.  Keep in mind also that if you wish to read old comics, you can very easily as both Marvel and DC have extensive reprints.  If you want to read the first Spider-Man story, you easily can, but the desire to read it is not why Amazing Fantasy #15 is so valuable.  The fact that is the original release of it is what makes it valuable.  Earthbound is the same way.  It's not just to play it but to have the original release.  And if you had the box and manual that would be really valuable because Earthbound came with a Player's Guide.  The more doodads that came with the game the more likelihood of them getting lost and the rarer a complete copy is.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2013, 02:07:38 PM »
Why is everyone freaking out about this? Why not Mother 3? That'd be a bigger bombshell.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2013, 02:12:27 PM »
Quote from: Oblivion on April 17, 2013, 02:07:38 PM
Why is everyone freaking out about this? Why not Mother 3? That'd be a bigger bombshell.

Because more people want EarthBound, it's also more well known and developed a cult following. Mother 3 pretty much only got attention here because it was a sequel to EB. People have been clamoring for EB for 14 years and never thought it would be re-released. It's huge news.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2013, 02:12:43 PM »
Quote from: Oblivion on April 17, 2013, 02:07:38 PM
Why is everyone freaking out about this? Why not Mother 3? That'd be a bigger bombshell.

Because Earthbound is a game that people have actually played.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2013, 02:13:06 PM »
Quote from: UncleBob on April 17, 2013, 11:34:56 AM
Quote from: KDR_11k on April 17, 2013, 11:27:57 AM
It will. A good part of the demand for old games is people who want a legal copy. If they can get a cheap, legal copy they drop out of the cart market and thus demand drops.

I just seriously doubt there's a massive amount of people who just want to play the game that:

A) Care if it is legal.
B) Intend to keep it (i.e.: don't want to just borrow it from a friend or flip it after playing it).
C) Would go through the effort of tracking down (and paying for) an SNES copy (and potentially an SNES to play it on)
D) Would fit into all of those above slots *and* would still be willing and content to just download the VC Version.

From the classic games I've watched on eBay, they *rarely* go down in price when a newer version gets re-released.  Sometimes, they even go up.
There's also the fact that most people would have to buy a Wii U to be able to play (and buy) the VC release.  There's a likelyhood that more people have SNES's or retro consoles (with SNES cartridge slot) than Wii U's at this point.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2013, 02:14:22 PM »
Quote from: Oblivion on April 17, 2013, 02:07:38 PM
Why is everyone freaking out about this? Why not Mother 3? That'd be a bigger bombshell.
If it came out here, I'd buy it.  EB is the more popular title in the US and European countries though because of its previous release.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #20 on: April 17, 2013, 02:22:57 PM »
Funny, I thought people would freak out more over a sequel to the game they love and can still get very easily versus a game that was never released in the US (hence the whole point of OP Rainfall). I can play EB right now on my PSP. What I can't get is a true translated version of M3 that I'd love to have, and would have an appropriate amount of freaking out over.
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #21 on: April 17, 2013, 02:24:14 PM »
so, we're letting Oblivion talk abaout piracy now?
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #22 on: April 17, 2013, 02:25:48 PM »
I have before, I don't see why that changes now. I'm not telling you how to get it, nor how to allow your system to get it. 
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #23 on: April 17, 2013, 02:27:54 PM »
Oblivion, it is NOT easy to legally get EarthBound. Obviously you dont care about the "legally" part since you admit to playing an illegal version of it, but a lot of people want it legally. And Operation Rainfall was about recent, current-gen games. Mother 3 is a 7-year old GBA game, it would also have to sell a lot more for it to be profitable to Nintendo (as they would have to translate and localize the game).
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Re: EarthBound Confirmed for North American/European Release 
« Reply #24 on: April 17, 2013, 02:28:00 PM »
Quote from: Oblivion on April 17, 2013, 02:22:57 PM
Funny, I thought people would freak out more over a sequel to the game they love and can still get very easily versus a game that was never released in the US (hence the whole point of OP Rainfall). I can play EB right now on my PSP. What I can't get is a true translated version of M3 that I'd love to have, and would have an appropriate amount of freaking out over.

Yeah, if you went the route of the software pirate, you could play Earthbound on devices you already own like the PSP or PC.  Of course, you could also just as easily play a pirated copy of Mother 3 on those same devices with the English language pack (as seen in the game's Retro Active).  If you care about playing legal copies of your games, though, with near-perfect replication of the original experience, this is the first time you could do that with Earthbound since the late 90s.

I'm sure now that the floodgates are open that Mother 3 will be the next game people will cry out for (personally, I'm more interested in Terranigma and Lufia 2 getting VC releases), but for now Earthbound is the game that people care more about.
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