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NoA handles all of the Americas though which includes French, Spanish, and Portuguese as major languages (well not anymore since they've pulled out of Brazil). But yeah they don't translate all their games to those languages.

All we can do is hope they're working faster on this since there's more interest in FE now. :/ Maybe we'll learn a date at E3.

Aye, and I agree! There are more languages to cover here, but I really hate that it - more often tha not - has to be an extra MONTH or two inbetween.

I hope so too. I really don't want to wait till, for example, April 2016 to finally play it when both Japan and North America has already played the game over and over.

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I'm fine with it, as I'm still on the fence about whether to get this game or not.

Besides, I have plenty of things to keep me busy in the mean time.

True, there are games that will come out this year, like Xenoblade X (at least they claim it's for 2015... It's released in Japan and we haven't even been given the month) and Mario Maker, + Splatoon... and I guess it gives me more time to finish the Fire Emblem games from eshop, too.

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What happens, happens. I'm not some millionaire who can throw cash at them to translate faster...

Yeah, I guess... Neither am I. Just a European bloke who is rather fed up with getting things after America. On an unrelated note, love your avatar.

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So, new here, and not sure where to post this... But here I go.
I apologize for coming off as ranting at first.

So, I remember that Fire Emblem: Awakening (for example) came out April 19th 2012, while in the west it first came out in North America on February 4th 2013, and April 19th 2013 for Europe.

Now, with the hype for Fire Emblem: if, I've begun to worry that the same thing will happen to this game. It'll be released in Japan on June 25th THIS YEAR, while in the west it's set for 2016. And I do worry that it'll come out early 2016 in America (for one bloody reason or another...) and later for Europe. I rather that it doesn't happen, as I feel it not only makes no sense, it is not particularly fair for Europe to have to wait a (almost) complete year. And I don't want to hear that USA has a bigger gaming market, because that's poppycock.

Anywho; moving swiftly along, what are your thoughts about the gap between Japanese release date and the western 2016 release date? And yes, I know the localization and such are important factors.