Analysis: Aussie and NZ Nintendo fans are fed up, Nintendo

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ConorON said:

Being Irish, I sypathise greatly with this:

It's brilliant that Americans are sitting here telling us how we shouldn't moan about something they've never had to experience - Europe and Oceania being completely blanked, and still expected to cough up serious cash (sometimes double that of the US) to get our hands on them.

Animal crossing Gamecube came out 2 years after it did in Japan!

We pay so much more for an inferior product coming out much later that it would drive you insane....and it's so unneccisary, we all speak English, why not let us have the games at the same time?

Punishing Gamers for Using PAL is why Nintendo never had much of a foothold in Europe.

At first glance this sounds like reasonable explanation, but it really doesn't explain why Sony gained groud by fucking up PAL just as badly as Nintendo, Sega and Atari before it. Basically solution for this would be making a "PAL english" region, which would include UK and Australia and make region locked games for this region. Oh wait, but that would be fucking up the customer.

NOE does publish games... All Nintendo published games in Europe, are published by NOE, just like games in Americas are published by NOA. Does Nintendo have it's internal studio in the US?

You know, the difference in games prices aren't so big as you think, if i recall, when USD and EUR ratio is 1€=1,18$, the central-European price is equal to price in the US. 

 

I easilly can understand why UK have to wait for the european localisation, it's because UK is in EU, and therefore every game released in UK, means that the game is released everywhere in the EU. But for Australia, i think it doesn't have any other basis than that it's PAL. Which sucks.

 

@Rol: Also Geist was 60Hz only. 

 

@Lafiel: That's how it should be done. Translate the game before it's released anywhere. Just like EA does. But EA fucks up Japan really badly. Or how do you want to think that.

From Japan to NA, the game is translated much faster than from NA (or Japan) to PAL-region. You have to translate it to only one language, which is english,  to  PAL-region, the game is translated to 4 languages (the games that are translated, that is). Also translation between, TV standards, NTSC in Japan and NTSC in NA, is easier, faster and cheaper, than NTSC to PAL. So it really takes more time. 

 

Why not  releasing  PAL first and NA afterwards, they would have translation ready for the french-speaking canadians.