Europeans I can understand getting screwed with release dates, since it generally has to be translated to 4/5 different languages.
We only speak english here, come on, show us the damn games!
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1. Import market is so small (except in some rare cases such as Gyakuten Saiban 2, but they brought that on themselves) that it won't make much of a difference
2. If you import from Japan, learn to speak japanese =) People who want the localisation will pay for the localisation (again, 99% of cases)
3. ermm... why does the company care about this?
4. This seems to show a complete lack of understanding of economics. "People are importing games instead of buying them here because they cost so much. I know, let's RAISE the price to make more money!" Anyone who thinks like that needs to have their head checked.
If they didn't artificially delay games and increase prices to other countries (yes, I said ARTIFICIALLY. This is 2007. Are you saying it takes half a year to get a game from US to Australia, and costs $30? This is complete bullshit, and everybody knows it. NOTHING could delay the release that much unless it was on purpose) then there wouldn't BE any motivation for people to import games. The companies use region encoding to fix the price around the world and for no other reason. And kudos to Sony for taking region coding off their games (although they ruined this by suing the premier importer into oblivion).
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