No problem Jim.
Pity it is news of the rotten arsehole kind.

There isn't any excuse to have it delayed this long. Translators should be have started working on it months ago, so I can't think of anything else that can cause such a delay.

Nintendo did pretty well with the release of Galaxy, but this is an abomination. Their biggest game for the console (undisputed) and they screw around their second largest market.

Translators? Britain speaks goddamned English, last I checked. Also, it's not like Brawl will have that many words -- just menus.

But yeah, there's really no excuse for this, and shows a blatant disregard for online gaming. And they wonder why people mod their Wiis/Ds and import/R4 their games.

I'm sorry to admit that I laughed really hard when I saw this. It really put into perspective how small our two month delay is. I feel for you, Europe, I feel for you. However, that doesn't mean you're going to get any mercy from me when you go online.

I sincerely encourage all European Wii owners to invest in modchips, btw.

They've gotta add 255,000 Britisms like "Bollocks!" and "I say!". Oh and they're adding Tony Blair as a playable character. So it's really not all bad.

Holy. Fuck. This is so sad it's hilarious. I can't even find the words to describe how fucked up this is.

I was totally pumped for MP3 and Paper Mario, but by the time they hit Australia I was over them and never picked them up (well, I rented and finished MP3...)

"I sincerely encourage all European Wii owners to invest in modchips, btw."

It's legal in Australia, thank God (region code chips ONLY, any copy protection modification is illegal).

Gives us an extra 5 months to learn our friend codes I guess...

It really is ridiculous. If something like Jim Sterlings favourite game Mass Effect, and all the dialog in that can release in pal territories in the same week as its American release, it just shows how slack Nintendo is.

If history is any indication, Jim, it will be ten years before you Europeans get games at the same time as the rest of us. By my estimations, that's about how long it took for us Americans' whining to get through to Nintendo.

Americaaaaa

FUCK YAH!

Jim, I feel for you.

The one game hardcore players want more than anything, and they have to wait more.

I love you nintendo, but I'll piss on you too.

That's what you get for having funny accents and being weirdos.

go buy a PStriple, europeans. Nintendo sucks over there

What garbage, you guys bought the same hardware you deserve the software at the same time. Good luck, I hope Nintendo actually tries to shorten the time.

upon my first visits here, I used to see your "Europe gets their games late" talk as whines. But after thinking about it constantly, this type of stuff really is like shitting on the Queen.

bad enough our economy screws your prices up for everything, then you can't even get games out the same time as others? Nintendo needs some rant mail from Europe.

Dreadful timing for Nintendo since they said yesterday they where gonna improve on that.

This is total bullshit, I'll never understand why the PAL market gets shit on so much, especially by Nintendo, I also encourage every PAL gamer to get a mod chip right now, fuck these stupid business practices.

Firstly:

Fuck you Nintendo.

Seriously, I'm pissed off. especially after yesterday's announcement that you would improve release dates outside japan you can and collectively rape the arsehole of half the planet by pushing the game back 6 months, half a fucking year behind the rest of the world so while they sit and make love to their wiis with Brawl we sit on our arses and replay UR MR GAY again for the fiftieth time. I'm SICK of this SHIT.

If I can get Mass Effect out here, or virtually any XB360 game within a week, why does it take you this long to send ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING across the sea? Super Paper, Mario, Metriod, and I mean with brawl, it's not like you can even use translation into all those European languages as an excuse, what are you going to have to translate? Menus? Goddamnit! There's probably not even that much menu text.

This is why people buy modchips. This is why people import. this is why the R4 is selling smashingly. This is why people pirate. If the games were available, we'd probably buy them, but it's hard to play nice when you treat us like shit at every opportunity.

Now if you excuse me, I have a horde of reasonably released 360 games to get to.

Know what? Fuck it. I'm done with Nintendo.

So in other words, after what they just said, they've turned themselves into total hypocrites. What a bunch of idiots. Oh how hard it must be to make the minor changes necessary to play it on European televisions!

Well, to be fair, Nintendo didn't specify when they would start trying to improve on this matter and if it would be applied to upcoming games such as Smash Bros. Brawl.

Still, the clash of announcements is going to hurt Nintendo's reputation.

So European Wii gamers will be left with no new Nintendo first-party titles until July and hardly any good third-party titles as well.

It makes you wonder how terrible 2008 is going to be when this is just the beginning of the bad news.

I have all the fucking nintento-consoles ( except for that virtua-boy-crap ) and I've always been a great supporter of the Wii I've always said, just wait a bit longer and it'll be ok...

but now I just want to take a dump in my Wii and send it over to Nintendo cause that would give me WAY more pleasure then any fucking game on that piece of crap! ( sadly I do own almost all high-rated games on Wii, none of them come even close to given me the experience I had with even the least thrilling of my 360 titles ( overlord ( yeah I only buy AAA-titles normally but this came from Holland :-) and it ROX ))

Nintendo, I'm really sorry but I'm hereby resigning my 12 year old membership to your club ( 25 now, member since I was 13 and got my NES) ! GO SCREW YOURSELF!


grts
mistic

PS: I'm from Belgium, and I'm also pretty pissed since our loan-rates went up because you lazy fucking americans just gave loans to every fucking dickwad that asked one! Here you have to go through so much fucking shit to get a loan that its almost a fulltimejob for 2/3 weeks straight and you have to work through boatloads of paperwork and evidence that you can afford that loan and then you guys go and mess it up like that and its not enought that you FUCK up your own economy, NO you have to go and drag the whole fucking world down with you... BE A LITTLE BIT MORE FUCKING RESPONSIBLE, there's just too many of you, you have to much impact, realise that and then behave like it... You all like spiderman right? "With great power comes great responsibility!" well act like it!

I will now go drink some milk and honey and then try to get some sleep, sorry for the rant, just got really pissed of for realising what a fucking waste that wii has turned out to be and hearing that a friend of mine had to cancel his loanrequest with the intrestrates getting so out of hand because of your lack of responsibility...

Kind regards,
mistic :-)

I find this hard to believe.

Just a week ago they made an announcement stating that they would do everything in their power to have games have street dates within two weeks of different territories.

Probably different corporate divisions not communicating with each other. NOE/NOA say one thing and NOJ says another.

sorry to hear, I'm sure its worth the wait

I think that we're getting Persona 3 for PS2 in 2008, that's about 2 years after Japan. Great to be European! And added on to the travesty of us PAL gamers not getting games till about half a year after and finding out what happens in it by Mistake thanks to immature wankers on forums who don't know how to do a spoiler warning, we don't get some of the very best games anyway. Xenogears, Chrono Trigger.

Fuck you Big name corporations who like fucking over one of the biggest markets you can appeal to, fucking morons.

For fucks sakes.

That is all.