| Metallicube said: I envy you Europeans! Don't ever sit there and tell me Nintendo screws you over the most again :P |
Though I would say that this gen NoA has screwed over the US more than NoE has Europe, in total we've been screwed over far more than the US ever has.
Atlus doesn't have a European branch, meaning they don't publish any of their games here. Occasionaly some get picked up by other 3rd parties (Nintendo with Trauma Centre, Square-Enix with Persona 4 and Namco-Bandai with Demon Souls for example), but games like Shiren the Wanderer, Strange Journey, Radiant Historia, Devil Survivor and almost certainly it's 3DS remake (and I want that too...) all haven't been picked up here. The DS ones don't matter as much as I can import, it's just very expensive at times(the cheapest one on Amazon is £43.98, which is $70.67).
North America may be missing out on Xenoblade Chronicles, but has got all the other Xeno... games. On the other hand, Europe has only go Xenosaga II. At the end of the day, NA will have 4 Xeno... games, while Europe only has 2.
I guess though, that anything is better than the situation in the 4th generations, where Europe basically didn't get any RPGs at all. Europe missed out on the likes of Final Fantasy IV and VI, Chrono Trigger, Ogre Battle MotBQ, Super Mario RPG, Lufia, all which released in the US. It would be easier to say which SNES RPGs Europe got, which were limited to pretty much just Secret of Mana and Mystic Quest Legend. Even in the 5th gen, which saw the likes of Final Fantasy VII and Pokemon greatly expand the popularity of RPGs, the likes of Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Tactics Ogre, Valkyrie Profile, Dragon Quest VII, Ogre Battle 64, all 3 Arc the Lad games and more all skipped Europe.
