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https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP
The last couple of tweets talk about how they were challenged with making a seamless and network enabled map.
[Takahashi] Thank you for waiting update us. From now on it but I think if Ikere muttered 2-3 times a week. This time First, I would like to briefly talk about whether project of XenobladeX began how to..
Takahashi] (Continued) after completion of the previous work Xenoblade, where it was approached want to make things that I stopped in a little more SF while based on Xenoblade to the mountain's team of Nintendo, I received a reply that may be the challenge.
[Takahashi] (Continued) where they began to study how likely can any updates (such as seamless and network-enabled map) towards the Wii U, was embarked on this development in that it that it somehow should likely.