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Forums - Nintendo - what's the deal with games being on the eshop on one region but not the other?

Conina on 25 January 2014
Mike_L said:
archer9234 said:
Mike_L said:
Nem said:

Apparantly its rights issues.

There are alot of those cases on PSN aswell.

For example Syphon Filter is a Sony IP. Syphon Filter 2 is on the US shop but isnt on the EU one for some weird rights issue. The same can be said about Xenogears and Chrono Cross. They are on the US PSN, but square doesnt release them on the EU one, even though it should sell well cause the games werent released here before. But apparantly it raises rights issues aswell.

Its all a big pain. These rights issues should be streamlined.


Big pain! Always wondered how Steam can make all content avaiable ww when eg. PSN can't? If it's due to localization I'd rather be without.

They don't always. I had to buy my Ausie friend a couple games from the US steam store. One being the banned Saints Row 4 weapon DLC. And a few 2D classics. They aren't on theirs.

Okay. But you can activate all content in all regions even if it's bought in another region.

Most content, but not all content. Dead Rising: Off the Record and a few other Steam games can't be activated in Germany, even if bought elsewhere.



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baloofarsan on 25 January 2014

Games on the 3ds that only are in english (acording to nintendo.de):
Attack of the friday monsters.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
One Piece: Romance Dawn ( english, spanish)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summone®: Soul Hackers
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning
Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan



baloofarsan on 25 January 2014

Games on Wii U that is only in english.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director's Cut
Darksiders 2 (english & german)
Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper

A major game as AC4 Black Flag have voice and subtitles in many languges but curiosly I can not find anywhere that I can change the menues to anything other than english. Bought my copy in amazon.uk.



qwertyDANIELqwerty on 25 January 2014

eShop tends to be region locked even for iOS



baloofarsan on 25 January 2014

List of some retail games that do not exist on e-shop:

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater

Crushed 3 D

Farming Simulator

Theaterhytym

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance

Lego Batman 2

Why are they not on e-shop? Should not be such a big problem to send the files tto nintendo. What reasons can there be to NOT be on the official download site?

 



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Conina on 25 January 2014

Additionally nintendo should offer every good DS game on eShop.

I don't want to carry a bag of modules with me on vacation.



nitekrawler1285 on 25 January 2014
baloofarsan said:

List of some retail games that do not exist on e-shop:

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater

Crushed 3 D

Farming Simulator

Theaterhytym

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance

Lego Batman 2

Why are they not on e-shop? Should not be such a big problem to send the files tto nintendo. What reasons can there be to NOT be on the official download site?

 

Kingdom hearts is more of an issue with disney not SE. It's part of why you can't find any kingdom hearts games for download.