At this point, Sega may feel the game is too dated to now debut as a new product, but for diehard fans of the earlier Phantasy Star Online games who are starved for a localized release, it would have been a very welcome surprise to see it show up during Sony's press conference. Sega's most recent earnings report noted that PSO2 sales "remained robust" in Japan during the latest fiscal year, and it was deemed noteworthy enough to get crossover DLC content in Gravity Rush 2 back in February. And it's not as if the belief that it's coming is completely unfounded-it said back in 2012 that the game would be coming, only for that to lead to delays that in turn became silence.Īnd it's not as if Phantasy Star Online 2 is some dud that the company is desperate to move on from. More than four years after its original release in Japan, Sega has still provided no indication or when the game will be brought to the West. It was perhaps foolish to think that Phantasy Star Online 2 might actually surface at E3. But with a new console out and no real replacement for the Virtual Console in place yet, E3 2017 seemed like it would be the place Nintendo would finally reveal Mother 3 in English. still has the two main Earthbound/Mother protagonists as part of its roster, so it's possible that Nintendo is just waiting for the right time to spring a surprise re-release.
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Some of my earliest PC gaming memories stem from the hours upon hours I put into the original Half-Life. Then, during E3 2015, Nintendo announced that the previously unreleased-in-America first Mother game was coming to the US as Earthbound Beginnings.īut despite releasing Mother 3 in Japan later that same year, Nintendo has made no other Earthbound-related announcements. Though, a Half-Life 3 announcement would still be enough to send me into fits of nerdy joy. While the game only exists in English as an unofficial (but still excellent) fan translation, rumblings about an official Nintendo release have been going around since 2013 when the SNES Earthbound came back to life with a Virtual Console release on Wii U.
There's no actual reason to believe that the Earthbound sequel Mother 3 will come to the West, but fans continue to keep hope alive for this cult classic.