The Last Story classified in Australia

@Apsac D
I get it! it's because Australia is a granny state with no freedoms and stuff. Har har fahny joke

@AntiVillian

Na, that's Japan that's the granny state. Guffaw guffaw birth rates.

@Scuffles

I'm already done with Nintendo. They've kept all the really good games (save for Mario Kart and Smash Bros) out of America, and it's been about... 2 - 3 years since I last played my Wii. Why? No really good games to keep me playing.

To be honest, I had no plans for these games, as the refusal to bring Mother 3 over was the nail in my coffin, but so help me, I think the 3DS will be the first handheld generation I skip. I think I'll just sit here and build my PC up, muchless their next console the first Nintendo home console I do not buy. All these console companies are just out of their nucking futs lately...

@ShivanSwordsman

Damn, I didn't even know there was a Mother 3. Now I'm going to be bummed out the rest of the day.

@sin2sin:

There's also a spectacular translation patch out there for it. Go. Play it. Now.

@Super Nintendo Chalmers

That really doesn't mean anything other than their Wii has a different video encoder chipset..... or in all likelihood just a transposed resistor/jumper.

@Scuffles

Actually it has a lot more to do than that. In terms of regulations and such.

@RasenganFury

I'm actually sorta bracing for an announcement along those lines .....

Tho honestly I think they would be better off not releasing the games at all than pulling a stunt like that. Because what that says to me as a consumer is....

"We are going to strive greatly to support the 'Core Gamer' by totally abandoning out old system (sucks to be you) buy you should buy our new system because things will be different!"

@Scuffles
Same here, unfortunately.

@(Unverified)
Xenoblade top-selling game of the week in EU, really? It was the top-selling *Wii* game of the week for sure but I didn't think it was top of the multiplatform charts.

Great game, I'm about 40 hours in (and I expect it to take a whole lot longer; I'm doing loads of sidequests). But it's not going to compare with the Mario Karts of this world in terms of sales figures.

So I guess from the comments that Last Story was previously announced in EU? I hadn't noticed, so yay. I guess it won't be as good as Xenoblade (pretty much nothing is) but still, it looks promising.

By the way, I live in the EU but I have an NA Wii; I figured games would come out first in the US and there would be some that never made it to the EU. Big mistake. Anyhow I modded it as per Joystiq's instructions and it works fine (although a bit annoying having to go through 2 other programs before you can load the disc, it probably takes a whole 30 seconds - couldn't somebody make a 'disc loader channel' so you can one-click it from the Wii menu? oh well), so not a major problem.

@xxxsam Actually people have designed a disc-loading channel. It just requires a bit more research. What I find saves time (and saves your ass, as a precaution) is loading BootMii so your Wii will never brick. When you turn it on you can boot right into the Homebrew channel and be playing your games in roughly the same time it would have taken to boot a normal Wii and go to the disc loading channel.

@KungFuChaosNinja

.... at this point they are pushing dangerously close to, being lucky if I buy a Used WiiU to play my Used copy of the newest Zelda game, territory.

I know I'm certainly not going to be buying a WiiU anytime near launch..... of course at this rate it wouldn't surprise me if NOA didn't even release the WiiU in NA......

@rartemass Just be glad you don't have the sods that work work at NOA over where you guys are.

@rartemass

Towards the end of the Wii's life cycle? Excluding 3 games that ARE ALREADY IN ENGLISH? Yeah, nice one, high fives all around, GREAT sending off party for your console, Nintendo. WELL DONE.