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NJ5 on 30 July 2008
Soleron said:
SaviorX said:
 Is it that hard to convert SSBB from English.....to English?

And thus Iwata decreed, "Thou shalt wait until your game is translated into Hungarian first."

 

You're right though - even though translation takes a long time, most major non-Nintendo games come out only days apart.

 

 

It's just a matter of proper planning... There's no reason why the bulk of the translation tasks have to wait until the game is finished.

If you ask me, I think the reason is that Nintendo's European subsidiary sucks. A very poor subsidiary for such a high-profile company.

 



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Tbone on 30 July 2008

The european market has become really big.



 

Zucas on 30 July 2008

It shouldn't be that surprising considering the territories within the Europe/Other regions has more than 10x the population haha.



trestres on 30 July 2008

Good for Nintendo actually. Europe was their weakest market if you take into account the population.



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NJ5 on 30 July 2008
Zucas said:
It shouldn't be that surprising considering the territories within the Europe/Other regions has more than 10x the population haha.

This is just for Europe.

 

 



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exindguy on 30 July 2008
SaviorX said:
I don't understand why US & EU don't get games less than a week apart from each other. Is it that hard to convert SSBB from English.....to English?

Maybe its that guy from NOE's fault, the one who said a hard drive were geeks and otakus. I guess Smash wasn't worth a timely release either. I'm aware of the other languages, but 3 months?

1. All those different language versions need to be tested exhaustively for bugs and they only have so many testers, programmers, etc. to manage this feat.

2. All these different territorries have different marketing/advertising schedules so that games aren't cannibalizing one another and they aren't going up against the wrong product or coming at the wrong time of year.

3. All these territories need copies of the game and they take time to manufacture, box, ship, stock, etc. It's not like you wave a magic wand you have 5 million copies of a title that is expected to sell at least that much.

A lot of you seem to think it's some sort of conspiracy on the part of NCL, NOA and NOE (or insert company that you want to blame for delays here) for why a particular game comes out a at a particular time rather than simply realizing there are all manner of other issues involved other that do not include incompetence or malice.




NJ5 on 30 July 2008

@exdinguy: That's all very pretty and logical, but it's still not a good enough explanation for massive delays.

As I said, many of those tasks can be made in parallel with the game's development. It just requires proper planning and cooperation between developers and subsidiaries.



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BKK2 on 30 July 2008
Zucas said:
It shouldn't be that surprising considering the territories within the Europe/Other regions has more than 10x the population haha.

Actually Americas has a bigger population than Europe: 906m Vs 731m according to Wikipedia.

 



exindguy on 30 July 2008
NJ5 said:
@exdinguy: That's all very pretty and logical, but it's still not a good enough explanation for massive delays.

As I said, many of those tasks can be made in parallel with the game's development. It just requires proper planning and cooperation between developers and subsidiaries.

It's all "pretty" (huh?) and "logical" because it also has the virtue of being true and accurate--just because you want to believe it's all down to incompetence doesn't make it so. Basically, your argument (such as it is) belies a profound ignorance of so many facets of product development, supply chains, financial concerns, market pressures, promotional campaigns, etc., etc. that it's hard to take you seriously. You appear to seriously believe there can't possibly be a valid, array, of reasons why game releases are, typically, staggered across territories and ascribe it all to Nintendo being incapable of properly managing their product line.




BKK2 on 30 July 2008
exindguy said:
SaviorX said:
I don't understand why US & EU don't get games less than a week apart from each other. Is it that hard to convert SSBB from English.....to English?

Maybe its that guy from NOE's fault, the one who said a hard drive were geeks and otakus. I guess Smash wasn't worth a timely release either. I'm aware of the other languages, but 3 months?

1. All those different language versions need to be tested exhaustively for bugs and they only have so many testers, programmers, etc. to manage this feat.

2. All these different territorries have different marketing/advertising schedules so that games aren't cannibalizing one another and they aren't going up against the wrong product or coming at the wrong time of year.

3. All these territories need copies of the game and they take time to manufacture, box, ship, stock, etc. It's not like you wave a magic wand you have 5 million copies of a title that is expected to sell at least that much.

A lot of you seem to think it's some sort of conspiracy on the part of NCL, NOA and NOE (or insert company that you want to blame for delays here) for why a particular game comes out a at a particular time rather than simply realizing there are all manner of other issues involved other that do not include incompetence or malice.

All of these arguments also apply to Microsoft & Sony, but they seem to do a far better job in this regard than Nintendo, and SCEE probably translate to a lot more languages than NoE do too.

This is an area NoE could certainly improve on. We live in a global world, global releases should be the norm nowadays.