A fan campaign has been doing its best to convince Nintendo to bring several Japanese Wii games to North America. After a period of silence, the company has delivered its answer and it’s not what we were hoping to hear.
The movement began a week ago on IGN’s message boards and has become known as Operation Rainfall. The games in question are Pandora’s Tower, The Last Story, and Xenoblade Chronicles. All three have already been released in Japan but there’s been no indication of if or when they would be headed to North America. Fans were understandably upset when there was no sign of the trio at E3 (Janine specifically asked!).
Rainfall was initially going to consist of a letter-writing campaign. It has since done much more than that, flooding Nintendo with requests on both Facebook and Twitter. More astounding was what it managed to do on Amazon. The site still has a listing for Monado: Beginning of the World, an older title for Xenoblade that was never updated. Although it has no release date and a $59.99 price attached, Rainfall was able to push it all the way to the top of the sales charts by placing pre-orders on it. For a period of time this past weekend, it was the best-selling item in Amazon’s videogame section, beating out the likes of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and the Call of Duty: Black Ops PS3 bundle. Prior to this, the game hadn’t even been in the top 100.
