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BKK2 on 30 July 2008
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exindguy said:
SaviorX said:
I don't understand why US & EU don't get games less than a week apart from each other. Is it that hard to convert SSBB from English.....to English?

Maybe its that guy from NOE's fault, the one who said a hard drive were geeks and otakus. I guess Smash wasn't worth a timely release either. I'm aware of the other languages, but 3 months?

1. All those different language versions need to be tested exhaustively for bugs and they only have so many testers, programmers, etc. to manage this feat.

2. All these different territorries have different marketing/advertising schedules so that games aren't cannibalizing one another and they aren't going up against the wrong product or coming at the wrong time of year.

3. All these territories need copies of the game and they take time to manufacture, box, ship, stock, etc. It's not like you wave a magic wand you have 5 million copies of a title that is expected to sell at least that much.

A lot of you seem to think it's some sort of conspiracy on the part of NCL, NOA and NOE (or insert company that you want to blame for delays here) for why a particular game comes out a at a particular time rather than simply realizing there are all manner of other issues involved other that do not include incompetence or malice.

All of these arguments also apply to Microsoft & Sony, but they seem to do a far better job in this regard than Nintendo, and SCEE probably translate to a lot more languages than NoE do too.

This is an area NoE could certainly improve on. We live in a global world, global releases should be the norm nowadays.