Last night I reported/ranted, perhaps rantported on Nintendo confirming that there are no plans to release Super Smash Bros. Brawl before July, at least five months after the February US release date. With Nintendo now the focus of my unburning rage, the company has decided to play with European heartstrings some more as it now plants a seed of hope in anybody who still cares about the game.
"The Nintendo 1st & 3rd party Software lineup release schedule which was distributed by Nintendo on Thursday 6th December confirmed launch dates for Nintendo titles launching in Q1 2008," Nintendo told CVG. "Nintendo also included some titles which were fixed for release beyond Q1 2008 such as Mario Kart Wii. All Nintendo software titles launching in Q2 2008 have not been finalised or confirmed to date."
While some now see this as a sign that Brawl may be coming out sooner than expected, Nintendo really didn't say anything on the matter in that spiel. The fact remains that Nintendo yesterday stated it had no plans to release Brawl in Europe during Q1 or Q2 of 2008. Nintendo has not retracted that statement at all and instead has issued some vague collection of sentences. We want a real confirmation, please.
I don't much care to play Brawl and I might not even be in Europe when the game finally comes out, but I'm sick of this market being the redheaded stepchild of the gaming world. You charge us more money than other territories anyway, so why isn't it good enough? Modchips FTW, by the way.
Jim Sterling serves as reviews editor for Destructoid.com, head of the Podtoid podcast, and produces a number of news stories, original features, one-of-a-kind videos. With his passionate argumentative style, controversial opinions, harsh delivery, and dedication to brutal honesty Sterling is a name that you can't help but recognize.
Likes
PS2, iPod Touch, Silent Hill 2, Metal Gear Solid, Dynasty Warriors 3
Meet the rest of the team
| BBcode help |
| [b]Bold text[/b] |
Bold text |
| [i]Italic text[/i] |
Italic text |
| [url]http://www.dtoid.com/[/url] |
http://www.dtoid.com |
| [url=http://www.dtoid.com/]Web link[/url] |
Web link |
|
| [img]http://www.example.com/robot.jpg[/img] |
 |
Post a comment! You can also post a photo below:
Comment with Facebook
Click connect and comment instantly!
|
Comment with Dtoid
New? SIGN UP - it takes 5 seconds
|
28 comments | showing # 1 to 28
|
Comment with Facebook
Click connect and comment instantly!
|
Comment with Dtoid
New? SIGN UP - it takes 5 seconds
|
Comments policy
Destructoid is an open discussion community. You don't need to "audition" to post a comment - just speak your mind. We respect differing opinions on the site, so have at it. Be smart, funny, insightful, clueless, or cute -- but back it up with substance. Keep your cool, keep it fun. We only ask that you act respectfully and above all: don't be a troll and ruin it for everyone else. Don't bring down gamers or we'll, you know, gently shoot you in the face and stuff you into a flaming mailbox. Each comment is your opportuntity to make this community awesomer. Is that even a word?
Avoiding the banhammer only requires common sense: spamming, trolling, racism, NSFW stuff, and other forms of sucking will not be tolerated. If anyone is griefing please report abuse. Be good. Don't suck!
Contest:
9:18 AM on 12.07.2007
| 
Or did they really just say you will have to wait until AFTER July? DUN DUN DUN!
Notice how the Nintendo rep didn't even type the title of the game. It was probably some flunky who answers a few dozen release date emails per day, who saw SSBB wasn't on the list and didn't check any further.
A US Wii with SBB will be a payment option for the next album they release with the "pay what you can" system
IF YOU KNOW THE GAME WILL BE FINISHED IN Q1, SAY Q1. IF NOT, SAY Q2 YOUR PR FUCKBAGS.
FUCK YEAH!
Mods ftw, but don't ban me bro!
But if this game is delayed for so long it will suck quite a bit, melee still is one of my all time favourite games and I can't wait for brawl...
Agreed that on release dates SCEE > NoE, now if they cleared up the whole rootkit business etc they would be a company I would be willing to buy from again...
I think what frustrates people most about this stuff is there's nothing you can do about it. If they decide its coming out in 2010 then it is. You have no influence on the matter and everyone hates feeling helpless.
This is Bush Country
This is really the most ironic thing about all this--Nintendo is trying to stop the homebrew and modding on their systems, but with such horrid delays for major titles they're only encouraging it. And on one hand you can't blame them for wanting to stop things such as the R4, but on the other hand you really can't blame the poor people over in Europe who continually get the shaft.