Nintendo publishing Samurai Warriors 3 with Tecmo Koei

by JC Fletcher on Mar 16th 2010 1:29PM

Following the recent announcement that Dragon Quest IX will be published by Nintendo in North America, the company has revealed another publishing partnership for an exclusive game from a big Japanese publisher: Nintendo will co-publish Koei's Samurai Warriors 3 in North America this fall.

It makes sense that Nintendo would take the stewardship role for this game, as it contains a mode featuring characters and locations from Nintendo's Nazo no Murasame-jou ("The Mysterious Murasame Castle"), a Famicom Disk System game designed by none other than Shigeru Miyamoto. In any case, this is one way for Nintendo to ensure ongoing releases of third-party core games on its systems: by plucking existing ones from Japan and publishing them in North America itself.

Samurai Warriors 3 (Wii)

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Reader Comments (4)

Huh, thats interesting.

Though the picture you used for the articles appears to be of one of the Basara games, not a Musou game, based on the appearance of Date.

So we're finally going to get Samurai Warriors 3 but its going to be on a very hardware weak system. The Dynasty games already had issues with slow down and fade in characters, so how am I suppose to be excited by this? I'd rather Nintendo left this franchise alone. While I know the games are repetitive, their still fun. Hopefully by Nintendo being the publisher it doesn't have exclusive publishing rights and we can see another company bring it to other more powerful systems.