A few days ago, Nintendo updated the Brawl page of their UK site, posting a release date of June 1st for the game. Once word had gotten out of the posted date, Nintendo quietly removed it, replacing it with the super-helpful time frame of "2008."
What's even weirder is Nintendo's denial of the slipped release, claiming the update is likely a mistake as June 1st is a Sunday. Keep in mind that the official Brawl release date in the US is March 9th: a Sunday. So either it's a flimsy excuse for an unannounced release date, or the date really doesn't mean anything. Either way, we'll keep you updated on whether Nintendo ever decides to "set a date" with our PAL pals.
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(I know, I know, terrible joke)
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The game is done. There isn't even any dialogue in the Goddamn singleplayer, so unless they've hired one dyslexic monkey to translate into a bunch of other European languages, as well as handling the marketing and distribution, there really is no excuse for this hefty gap. One region's been playing it for almost 2 weeks, one region's still waiting a month and another doesn't even have a release date. Unacceptable.
I'm just curious.
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I guess is the same in Europe.
Although this means that they can print just one kind of disc for Europe, the games have to be marketed for different regions, packaging and manuals have to be produced for those 5 languages and then they have to distribute for the many countries Nintendo Europe oversees.
A lot of EU games get released along side each other. There will be the odd time where one region falls behind by a few days by distribution error or a certain country doesn't want the game in their country (Looking at you, Germany), but on the whole, EU regions get the same release date.
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Experience is a harsh teacher.
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I've been a PAL gamer all my life and over the last 7 years, I have been very disillusioned by Nintendo and their release time-frames. Especially as importing has become a viable option to me, I've relied on soft-mods like SwapMagic for PS2 and ActionReplay for Gamecube to boot my imported wares. However, Nintendo now seems very happy to stamp those out and leave us PAL gamers stranded for the Wii. And while Microsoft and Sony move away from region coding, Nintendo clings to it.
But I'll spare the region coding rant for today. Just know that it's redundant and will only serve to harm game developers and console manufacturers in the future, especially when others are dropping the idea. And will, as it always has, harm consumers.
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How long are the waiting times for new Wiis here right now? Are they back in stock in the UK yet? It's not like I need to worry about having enough time to wait in a queue for a Wii before THIS game is released though :(
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And those minutes are like GOLD, I tells ya!
Stand strong against this barrage of unknown release dates
If patterns repeat, we should get Mario kart Wii before those americans, we got Double Dash before them (I seem to remember.
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I live in Melbourne, Australia and about the only difference between a sunday and any other day is public transport takes longer to arrive.
JB Hi-fi is definitely open sundays, I believe EB is also (though i'm not a regular there). Target, Kmart, and Myers all are open, and most large shopping centres too. Not just in melbourne but all over the country.
the only day "everything" (bar 7-11's and pubs) is shut is christmas day itself, and then they usually can't wait to open for boxing day sales.
all that aside, i don't like the idea of a Sunday release is 'cause i work on mondays :(
Most games in Aus are released on our Thursdays.
Waiting till June. I hate you Nintendo. Here in Belgium, most shops are also closed on Sunday so it will propably only be a false rumour. At least I hope so.
Sigh
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