Animal Crossing Was Deemed So Difficult to Launch Outside Japan, Nintendo’s Former Boss Satoru Iwata ‘Burst Out in Laughter’ After Hearing it Would Finally Happen
Years before Animal Crossing became a global success, Nintendo warned its localisation team how "difficult" it would be to make the game work outside of its native Japan.
Metroid Dread Developer MercurySteam’s Blades of Fire Deemed To Have ‘Underperformed’
Blades of Fire, the most recent game from Lords of Shadow and Metroid Dread studio MercurySteam, has "underperformed".