Check out this amazing conversation between Kotaku's Stephen Totilo and Satoru Iwata...: I would be remiss in not telling you that some of my writers would like to play another Advance Wars and they would someday like to play Mother 3 in America… [Note: Iwata writes something down] … Whenever I ask Reggie about Mother 3, he says, ‘ask Mr. Iwata.'": [in English]: "Just yesterday, before I left from Japan, I met with Mr. Itoi, who is the creator of the Earthbound series. [laughs]": "Oh, I know. Are we ever going to get it?": "And, yeah, accidentally we were discussing that there are huge fans from Western countries for the Mother series [laughs].: "So, someday? Someday?" [I stand up to shake his hand]: "[laughs] Thank you. Great to see you!"That's the best bit of hope we've gotten from Nintendo in a very, very long time concerning Mother/Earthbound. We don't have a commitment on anything, but we at least know there are conversations!