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Radek said:

Funny how all of Europe will have to pay and wait for few languages that they may not even speak.
French (probably ready cause Canada) , Italian, German, Spanish (probably ready cause USA and Mexico) , Russian

It's especially bad for countries like mine where we don't almost ever get localized versions of games. We get English versions almost always (and personally I'm really happy about that).



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sam987 said:
Why Sony and MS never have problems with localizations and translations. They should release the english version first and then the other languages as an update. Nintendo should stop treating gamers like they are children who cant read english.

You know that many of their customers are actually children, right?

Also, I have no problem reading English,  but most adult and teenagers spaniards have. I supposed that the same happens in France and italy. An English only release would no doubt harm the sales.



People saying they should release the game first in english on Europe because people knows english... Not at all

On countries like Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, etc that would massively hurt the sales, most people on those countries don't know enough english to play the game without feeling the language as an obstacle for their enjoyment and almost no kid/teen would be able to play it.



This is such a fail on nintendos part if it launches everywhere else but europe.



Ka-pi96 said:
Barkley said:

Yeah but it doesn't because UK & Ireland are presumably affected by the delay. So the majority of people they are denying the game to would have sufficient language skills to play it english anyway.

There`s nothing stopping Nintendo from releasing in the UK & Ireland first and then the rest of Europe later. At the very least FIFA usually gets different release dates in the UK and the rest of Europe (even if it`s only a couple days) so they wouldn`t be the first.

Well here in the Netherlands everyone is fluent in English so release it here aswell. 



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I don't get the english problem, here in latin america we never got language options up until a few years ago and I bet Europeans have way better english than we do. I also don't know anyone that plays spanish dubbed, it mostly sucks like english dubbing sucks for most anime/japanese games



Get this out on time, NoE!



RolStoppable said:
pastro243 said:
I don't get the english problem, here in latin america we never got language options up until a few years ago and I bet Europeans have way better english than we do. I also don't know anyone that plays spanish dubbed, it mostly sucks like english dubbing sucks for most anime/japanese games

The major European countries have had TV shows and movies dubbed in their respective language for several decades, so the average citizen has absolutely no use for English and at the same time expects translations. It doesn't matter if European school systems provide better English lessons when all that knowledge is forgotten quickly after people are done with school.

I dunno about the rest of Europe but i can confidently say where I live the level of english we get on schools is rubbish, awfully pathetic. 



Goodnightmoon said:
People saying they should release the game first in english on Europe because people knows english... Not at all

On countries like Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, etc that would massively hurt the sales, most people on those countries don't know enough english to play the game without feeling the language as an obstacle for their enjoyment and almost no kid/teen would be able to play it.

Then delay the game in those countries only. I mean people in those countries that speak english can import it. Its all PAL anyways. Dont see any reason why other countries have to wait for a useless feature.



Nintendo should have split NoE into two separate things years ago, Nintendo of Northern Europe which includes UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland and whatever other countries that play games primarily in English,and Nintendo of Southern Europe who can't be bothered to actually learn enough English to play a game.