Developed by Monolith Soft, Xenoblade Chronicles was released in Japan on June 10, 2010, in Europe on August 19, 2011, and Australia on September 1, 2011. It was thought that the game would never see the light of day on American shores since Nintendo of America said they had no plans to release it, despite it already being translated to English. Xenoblade Chronicles now has a set release date of April 3, 2012 in North America. Thus far, the game is only available for purchase at GameStop and Nintendo's online shop.
One has to wonder if Operation Rainfall had anything to do with Xenoblade coming state site. For those of you not in the know, Operation Rainfall was a fan made campaign to get Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower, all high profile Wii games, to come to America. Operation Rainfall received coverage from numerous media outlets in the gaming press. On top of that, Tetsuya Takahashi, the director of Xenoblade has viewed Operation Rainfall in a very positive light.
"This is going to be quite interesting after everyone made all that noise about these games not coming over here and then they're finally bringing it out. Will it be too late? Will people who have gotten sick of NOA's bs who have already imported bother to buy it again to support it? If the game doesn't make enough sales will NOA blame it on the people who said they wanted it and didn't go out and buy it despite the fact that they took 2 long to bring it out? Will sales of this game even have any effect on the other 2 games of Operation Rainfall? There's a lot of stuff going on behind just this game alone," Said forum poster Sonichuman at the shoryuken.com forums.
Source: GameSpot
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