The official Nintendo magazine of the U.K. has within their latest issue a 5-page interview with none other than Mr. Shigeru Miyamtoto himself. In addition to a slew of other interesting questions and responses, one in particular stood out that should make a few of you happy:

Nintendo UK: Is there any possiblity of the Mother 1&2 GBA collection coming out in English?

Miyamoto: We had high hopes for Earthbound, the Super NES version, in the US, but it didn't do well. We even did a TV commercial, thinking, "Hey... this thing could sell three million copies!" But it didn't. You might not know this, but there was a petition in the US, a 'Please make Mother 3' petition and it got about 30,000 signatures! After that, we thought "Wow... Earthbound fans are really solid".

There you have it. Miyamoto himself has seen the Starmen.net petition that we at Nintendojo had previously "hosted" via a news article. Furthermore, with that kind of shocked response, the chances seem at least marginally better of the series creeping its way over to North America. Keep one's fingers crossed.

Source: Nintendo (Europe)