It appears that 8-4 will not be working on the localization of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for the West. In a Tweet last month Co-founder John Ricciard confirmed that they were too busy with other projects to handle it.
@Kyoufu2011 Sorry man, we busy on other stuff…….
— John Ricciardi (@johntv) January 13, 2017
Nintendo announced at the Switch event last month that the game would release in both North America and Europe sometime this year. If we learn anymore information about Xenoblade Chronicles 2 we will pass it along.