10/20/2023 0 Comments Download earthbound 3ds physicalBecause it hadn’t sold well, because yes there’s a lot of time and financial investment in localizing this type of content, it just really wasn’t a priority. It really was not the best marketing activity behind the launch of a new game. I think it was marketed some bizarre way like ‘this game stinks’ or something like that. Certainly as I’ve gone back to look at it, the marketing wasn’t great. Iwata about this game, about the fan passion, and certainly the perspective was the first game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System had not sold all that well. “The initial decision not to launch the game had happened before I joined the company, but certainly afterwards I had many conversations with Mr. Iwata about adding Mother 3 to the digital storefronts, but as we know, the former Nintendo president sadly passed away in 2015 aged 55 due to bile duct cancer and the Wii U system was a colossal failure in the sales department and therefore the company simply moved on to their next system. They did however release EarthBound Beginnings, which is the first Mother game, on the Wii U eShop. Nintendo had considered adding it as a Virtual Console game on the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U on their respective digital storefronts, but it simply never happened. ![]() Reggie has spoken candidly in his new book titled Disrupting the Game about why the long-awaited Mother 3 never came to the west and he conceded that there were a number of important factors at play.
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