You know, it seems like only yesterday that I'd finally been given hope that Nintendo had decided not to keep screwing people over in the European territories. Well, looks like the Big N isn't quite finished stomping on the Eurotrash and giving us a nice, hard kick in the teeth. If you were hoping for Super Smash Bros. Brawl before Christmas -- or even slightly after Christmas ... think again. Fancy waiting at least five months after the US release? Because that's what you're bloody getting.
All Nintendo had to say about it was that Brawl is "currently not planned for a release in Q1 or Q2 next year." That means we in the Euro market won't be able to get to grips with this thing until sometime around July 2008. Of course, by that time everyone else will have had plenty of time to become intimate with the gameplay and absolutely suck all the fun out of it for Europeans going online against people who have had five ****ing months of practice ahead of them.
Nintendo ... this is a douchebag move of the highest order and you have absolutely no clue how to release an online game. Bloody sort it out, because this isn't just a slap in the face anymore, this is a trainwreck of laziness and disrespect. Oh, and you can shove Mario Kart up your arse.
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10:14 PM on 12.06.2007
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You work at Nintendo?!?
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.
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.
So yeah, Nintendo does hate Europe.
This creates a seperate scenario whereby Australia has to wait for this translation itself, even though English is the main language. If anything, we have a stronger case for wanting to go NTSC instead of staying PAL.
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).
Indeed. We have to wait for the NTSC version to be translated from English to Japanese, then we wait for the PAL version translated BACK to English again (which is why we sometimes get extra bugs, extra typos etc.). I'm no business expert, but that seems pretty fucking stupid.
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.
I still remember the totally fucked up Animal Crossing situation.
FUCK YAH!
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.
No one will ever reach Microsoft's level of online competence because that is their natural environment, but I don't even expect Nintendo to deliver anything of X Box Live quality, All I want is a game release date which is based in reality. Even before the internet went mainstream, Nintendo's European release schedule was ridiculous, but in the 21st century, when global news is known by all, and digital media allows for 24/7 updates, pushing back a release date by essentially half a year is bafflingly fucking crap beyond words.
And yes, fuck Mario Kart, it looks like crap.
Why do you think america gets first dibs on all the great games?
I was thinking that with euros and pounds they would rush for that market to get that 40% over the dollar gain (at least in the euro zone).
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.
Sakurai:But why? You know development finished months ago.
Iwata: Because Miyamoto says so.
Sakurai: Fine. What should I tell them?
Iwata: Tell them it's for the sake of quality or due to the localization process or a new super special exclusive third-party character is going to be announced in their version that doesn't really exist. Europe must be taught a lesson.
Miyamoto: Yes, tease them first. I want to see them cry and then I'll lick up their tears.
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.
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.
You did read the news right?
We (Europe and Australia) won't be getting it until at least July, five months after America gets it.
12/06/2007 23:32
Jim, you do realize it's not coming out in the States until February right? ...and since when do you care about Wii stuff?"
While I cant speak for Jim, I would imaagine Euro gamers as a group would be just as mad if Sony or Microsoft pulled this crap. As everyone else has said there is no excuse for this delay, unless Nintendo just likes pissing off gamers.
may the force be with you ( to control minds to get decent release dates! ) or just to use it for good...ya know what ever suits you.
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.
SCEE is bunch of freaking assholes and morons and yet Nintendo manage to be even worse.
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 :-)
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.
Fuck you Big name corporations who like fucking over one of the biggest markets you can appeal to, fucking morons.
That is all.