nordlead on 20 February 2009
| Mise said: Some probable reasons: 1) Europe is a much more fragmented region than ie. Japan or NA, and requires more effort with things like localized translations, marketing, bureucracy etc. 2) Since most big gaming companies are either japs or yanks, the games are naturally released in those regions first. 3) Non-European gaming companies just don't give a fuck about the European/Australian market. I'm more inclined to go with the third option than the other reasons. |
to expand on #1. With a fractured market it takes a lot more money to get the games on the shelves. If you can spend less and put it on US shelves, you can get a small feel for how it might do in europe (small, as only the UK is really like the US in terms of game tastes). So companies may be using the US as a testing ground for the game before translating the game into 8 or so different languages.
anyways, get Little King's Story, it comes out in Europe first 
