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Poor Europe..
Don't worry we could just post pictures of how much fun we are having and then you can photoshop yourselves in and pretend that you were having lots of fun with us. Of course it's going to suck when you get an awesome game that we don't get and then rub it in our faces.
The only guy I know who had a Wii gave it back because it was lame. The UK likes Nintendo about as much as Nintendo likes UK. So it's all fair IMO.
They better come up with something good, fast, or I'll end up not buying it. Barely using my Wii as it is anyway.
I'm glad I live in Mexico.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
In all seriousness... that really sucks for you guys across the pond. Considered moving in with you folks more than once, but with the way game companies treat you...
And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free....to play Brawl
At first glance I thought the title read "Nintendo won't PULL out:..."
I don't get why it's so difficult for them to just release a regionless game. Gasp horror.
Sometimes I just happen to think nintendo hates money, I mean theirs no sound reason we can't get it with the rest of the world.
I'm glad I live in the US
fuck nintendo it makes me want to torrent
That'll teach those Europeans to speak languages other than English!
i second necros!
Un-paid intern assisting Brawl background animator gets flu, will miss 1 whole day of work!
Film at 11!
fuck nintendo it makes me torrent
I maybe being overly naive and optimistic but by squashing those release dates Nintendo could possibly release Brawl earlier than those said dates..... I mean if Mario Kart and Wii Fit are being released early then it would make sense to have Brawl out sooner as well, after all Mario Kart isn't released anywhere yet....
Well one can dream right?
Should we start a 'Play USA' website to export our games to eurpoe?
How often do I have to repaet myself: This has nothing to do with different language versions! It's not as if Nintendo games are particularly text heavy. Allmost every other major publisher somehow manages to release their games at the same time alll around the world. For Christ's sake even Mass Effect managed to get a world wide release and I guess that's got more text than Brawl.
I bought Metroid Corruption when it was finally released in germany. And guess what? All the voice overs were in english!! I couldn't care less if a game's in english or german, but if I have to wait 6 fucking months for my game, you could at least record german voice overs....
Fuck you Nintendo!
Modchip here I come!
Even with whining Nintendo will pull out the same excuses. I'm hoping that Zelda save exploit leads to some region-free homebrew program because it doesn't look like Brawl's coming any sooner.
Bottom line -- if Konami can manage to release MGS4 worldwide on the same fucking day, Nintendo has no valid excuse for its bullshit.
I'm sorry Jim, are you somehow implying that Europeans who get to play Brawl before the official release are somehow doing so illegally? Buying a copy from elsewhere and playing it on a corresponding region's Wii isn't illegal under any laws. Buying a copy and playing it on your modded Wii also isn't illegal in the vast majority of countries, including the one I'm currently living in.
In fact, the only scenario that I can see where I would be playing the game illegally is if I somehow committed copyright infringement.
Merely not catering to Nintendo's enforcement of pricing and availability differentials by the means of region locking their games, isn't illegal, no matter how much they'd like it to be.
I would expect anyone covering the delay of Brawl to be a bit more wary about towing the Nintendo line of it somehow being 'illegal' to source your games from somewhere with the best prices and availability (i.e. anywhere but Europe). Especially since it's because of region locking that they can get away with stuff like this.
Boggs: Haha ... you do realize I was very subtley encouraging piracy, right?
*GASP* But Jim! That's illegal! *Shock Horror*
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Who said anything about piracy? I'm not trying to encourage kids to pirate games.
Just... you know. To crack open their Wiis, grab a soldering iron and install a modchip.
Under adult supervision of course.
The Japanese are terrible bureaucrats.
Oh, and with the new wii hacking you should be able to play a PIRATED copy of it easily. OMG PIRACY IS WRONG!! WAHHHH!
btw, for the record, when I said the word "piracy," I was of course referencing the Latin word pirece', which of course means "purchase legally through respectable retail outlets."
@Jim
Ha, of course.
It would be nice if they would at least tell us why they won't announce a release date for europe. Sometimes, a lot of the time, Nintendo's logic baffles me.
This shit we have to take from Nintendo has made my Wii lose a lot of love...I have 2 games to play, but my feelings are hurt and i haven't touched the damn thing in a month...
WHY NINTY, WHY?!
i'm getting Wii Fit, Puta.
It's a beautiful game. Cholo.
Jim, you cholo-puta.
Once again European gamers are being treated like crap. *sigh* Let's see...
- Instead of Contra we got Probotector (I played Contra on a friends' Famiclone when I was still in preschool, so I was a little disappointed when they didn't release Contra on the European VC, even though it was to be expected)
- Super Paper Mario (it seemed cool when it came out and it got massive amounts of hype, so I bought it) released several freakin' months after the US release
- JAP Super Mario Bros. 2 (aka Lost Levels) removed completely from the EU VC catalog (It was available only for a limited time, but in the States it's there for good. What's the fucking logic behind that? What were they thinking??)
- You can't use Euros in the English mode in Brain Age II (Heh, ok, it's kinda beside the point, but still made me frustrated, since I'm Finnish and don't speak German, Spanish or whatever and don't know anything about UK Pounds)
- Capcom didn't release a ton of newer games in the Megaman -series (most of which are probably crap. Well, at least we got all the classics)
I could come up with more examples if I had the time. If they're going to delay Brawl the way they delayed Super Paper Mario, I'll be mad at Nintendo. I can understand if the game comes out like a month or so later than the US release, but a six month delay will not be acceptable.
The fact that Nintendo has released two useless channels instead of just focusing on Wiiware (or a support for 3rd party usb-drives) and a rather pointless plastic thing they call a Zapper is sorely disappointing. More delays will just make things even worse. Trust me, I'm not a Nintendo fanboy, but I hate to see the potential of the Wii getting thrown away with stupid or, as in most cases with Nintendo, simply risk-free solutions.
Ok, I got a little carried away... No wonder modding and piracy is common these days - European gamers are tired of being treated like this (it'd probably be easier just to import an NTSC Wii).
Btw, huge thanks to Jim for reporting from a Euro perspective and telling the world how much it sucks to be a gamer here. :)
My best friends with Wiis have lost much much of their interest in, and anticipation for, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. For example, my buddy marko72 was turned off by the repeated delays (and as a “serious business” Smash player, he feels uneasy about Nintendo getting rid of L-canceling and all that 1337 stuf). So I can’t even imagine how the wait has waned the desire for some Europeans...
All of my UK brethren here are welcome to come play at my house :)
But just because you have to wait isn't a reason to hate the game altogether, I bet you that your friend is gonna be kicking himself in the ass if he tries to force his distaste of it.
I'm glad i'm in New Zealand and don't have to deal with shitty European release dates.. oh wait.. nevermind.
I'm happy to be in America... but my heart breaks every day for the UK gamer society.
I bet Europe gets it in April.
I'm glad I pirated the Japanese version like a month ago.
Nintendo said they would stop doing this, too.
Well, they kinda HINTED that they would stop doing it... or something. Yeah, something.
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