I propose to you as a company release your RPG Xenoblade Chronicles (?????? in Japan) to North America, for doing so, I believe that you as a company will make great strides in financial income with large sales.
Xenoblade Chronicles has already been released in Japan, Europe, the Australian region, and South Africa. Japanese markets have already responded positively to the game, with it selling 83,000 units in the first week of its release and by the end of the year had reached 161,161 units sold in the country. In the United Kingdom, where it was released as Xenoblade Chronicles, it sold so well that fourty-eight hours into the week in which it was released, it was the fourth best-selling game of the week. Later there have been reports of the game selling out of stock, because of a limited European release. Australia sales have been strong as well, if Gamestop Australia is any indication.
The Americas make up 47.63% of the entire worldwide Wii market, so a Xenoblade release to North America at least would give a great opportunity to further the games' overall sales; North America makes up a large portion of that 47.63%. The United States has had a strong history in buying RPGs, with games like "Final Fantasy VII" and "Kingdom Hearts" each selling over three million units, and "Final Fantasy X" selling over two million seven hundred thousand units. More modern RPGs have also sold well in North America: "Final Fantasy XIII" has sold over one million units since its 2010 release (over 500,000 units each on the Xbox 360 and PS3), and "Final Fantasy IV: The After Years" has been downloaded over three million times in its digital format. North Americans have had, and still have a desire to play RPGs.
Xenoblade has also gotten fairly popular among North American video game enthusiasts across the Internet. It has been featured on the front page of GameSpot and GameFAQs under each website' day's top ten most popular games lists in the month of August; GameSpot and GameFAQs have Alexa ratings of 341 and 506 respectively in the United States. The Xenoblade Chronicles English Wikipedia article has been viewed 64699 times in the past thirty days; this is on a website that has an Alexa rating of 6 in the United States.
Given the game's success in regions like Europe, Japan, and the Australian region, and its localization in South Africa, I think a Xenoblade Chronicles release in North America would be commercially successful, and thus would be in your best interests as a company to localize the game. The North American region has had a significant market for the type of game Xenoblade Chronicles is in the past, and given how many North American Wii owners exist (over 41 million), it is likely that if released to North America it would be the highest-selling region of Xenoblade Chronicle's release.
The video game media press has rated the game with universal praise, and higher-rated games typically have strong sales to go along with it. On GameRankings, a video game review aggregator website, all the games ranked above 93% this year have sold over one million units. This correlation between high reviews and sales is relevant, because Xenoblade Chronicles is rated over 93% on the site, within the correlation range. "Portal 2" (95.47%) has sold over three million combined units across its systems on the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D" (93.63%) has sold over one million units on the 3DS alone since its release. Xenoblade Chronicles' exact rating is 93.33%, making it the fourth best reviewed video game released of 2011.
The factors that would propel Xenoblade Chronicles - A) it's already been released in Europe, South Africa, the Australian region, and Japan with strong sales, B) the Americas make up the biggest Wii market in the world, and has had a history of buying RPGs in mass quantities, C) Xenoblade's popularity in North America among video game enthusiasts despite it not being released there, and D) the correlation between strong sales and high reviews - are worth noting. From an economic standpoint releasing the game would provide you with the financial capital to grow your wealth and develop Nintendo further, and from a North American Wii owner standpoint it would provide a quality RPG to a system that is lacking RPGs to begin with.
I hope you consider the proposition I have put forth, and look forward to future work with you as a company.
Sources used:
- Japanese sales -
http://wii.ign.com/articles/110/1100385p1.html
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/01/23/heres-how-xenoblade-and-metroid-other-m-did-in-japan/
- UK sales -
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/36680/Saling_The_World_Xenoblade_Chronicles_Sees_Big_FirstWeek_Sales.php
http://www.gamezone.com/news/item/xenoblade_chronicles_selling_well_in_europe
- Australian sales -
2nd most popular Wii game on Gamestop Australia:
http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?platform=wii
Wii hardware sales - http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/historical_data/pdf/consolidated_sales_e1106.pdf
USA RPG sales - http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml
FFXIII sales - http://ps3.ign.com/articles/108/1084078p1.html
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years sales - http://release.square-enix.com/na/2009/03/25_01.html
GameSpot Alexa - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gamespot.com
GameFAQs Alexa - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gamefaqs.com
Xenoblade Chronicles Wikipedia views - http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Xenoblade_Chronicles
GameRankings 2011 best games - http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html?site=&cat=0&year=2011&numrev=1&sort=0&letter=&search=
Portal 2 sales - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35402/Newell_Portal_2_Has_Sold_3_Million_Copies.php
Legend of Zelda 3DS sales - http://gamingbolt.com/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-3d-crosses-1-million-units-sold
With regards,