Loss of publishing rights to Muramasa allowed XSEED to pursue Fragile

“As much as it hurts to lose Muramasa that does open us up to give more resources to other titles. That gave us a little more energy to focus on securing Fragile and other titles as well. In the end when it comes down to the consumer they are still going to play Muramasa. It’s still going to come to North America. We’ve gone out and gotten a title like Fragile, which I doubt any other publisher other than Namco Bandai USA themselves could have licensed for the US. We just started translating so, there wasn’t that much to hand over anyway.” – Ken Berry, Director of Publishing at Xseed

Am I a terrible person for being happy that XSEED is no longer publishing Muramasa? I do feel bad for the company, but hey…XSEED losing publishing rights to Muramasa is allowing North American Wii owners to play Fragile in a few months.

Source

• XSEED was “kind of being punished” with Muramasa publishing situation
Published on: June 8, 2009
• XSEED “looking into” Fragile for North America
Published on: April 29, 2009
• Ignition Entertainment Acquires Exclusive Video Game Publishing Rights to Muramasa: The Demon Blade for Nintendo Wii
Published on: April 21, 2009
• XSEED no longer publishing Muramasa: The Demon Blade in North America
Published on: April 20, 2009
• XSEED would be interested in publishing Fragile
Published on: February 6, 2009