Just an interesting Link for those who want to play this game despite Nintendo of NA.

Pretty sad that people have to hack their console to play a game that is apparently pretty good. Isn't region locking great?

Im less annoyed at the region lock itself, and more annoyed at Nintendo of America. It feels like they have abandoned me. Its the sort of thing that makes me not want to support them anymore. They don't care about me, so why should I care about them. I know that there is more going on than what I perceive. Im sure they must have really good reasons for not bringing any more games over. Still, this is how they make me feel when they do this sort of thing.

Yeah but we'll get another shit Mario game, woohoo! They have outright stated that they don't see the Wii as a hardcore game console in NA. So pretty much they actually don't care about you, at least insofar as you've purchased a Wii.

Illegal activities and piracy are the only way to ensure that the globe gets to play games... that's all there is to it. Of course Nintendo is being pretty outrageous these days; there's really no excuse for how fucked up they've made their current platforms.

I don't want to troll here, but I find it amusing that NA is getting screwed, when most of the time it is the other way around.

I wouldn't consider that trolling, so don't worry about it. Your right of course, we take our game selection for granted. Mayhap this will put us in our place. I don't think it will, but mayhap.

Just because you have a different opinion it does not make you troll... unless of course you are visiting BioWare forums...

Think I might be a bit more of a troll when I am currently floating on a cloud of schadenfreude? (Taking joy in others pain). Yes, Usually its us Europeans getting the shaft, we still do, so that we get these 3 games are close to a modern day miracle. ;) Now, If Atlus would just open up a EU branch, I want My Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Surivor Overclocked.

What Idiot tough region locking was a good idea? sigh.. one world should equal one release region.

What a grand strategy, Nintendo. ""Deny potential customers access to games that may want, this is sure to make us money!" Seriously, ditch region locking, and try to become capable of using digital distribution for no just independent games, but full blown ones too - this would really open up available markets since digital distribution would free your company from the constraints of producing discs and cartridges, allowing the sale of any game in any part of the world where there is an internet connection, which would remove the concern of having too many unsold discs and whatnot.

Seriously, I wanted to play Ace Attorney 2...but Nintendo wouldn't translate and sell the game in the west. So now it is likely that some group would translate the game and release a patch - which means no money going into the pockets of Nintendo, simply because there isn't a product to sell. Ditto goes for the hordes of untranslated games or ones that are locked to a specific region that I don't live in. When someone wants to buy a product and it isn't provided, that person's money is going to end up somewhere else.


I feel like ranting, so here is another thing: If an company plans to remake or reboot a game, choose one that matches what you want to make, not shoe-horn a property into a different genre. For example, instead of taking X-COM and making it into an FPS, choose Marathon - that was an FPS, so it already has an built-in audience that would appreciate another FPS. I am a pretty stupid person, but I can still figure this out. Why can't major companies do the same?!

There are so many games that could use remakes or be made available for sale via digital distribution, that I can't help but think that there is a lot of money that companies are failing to collect, and many experiences that could be made available to gamers, if any bothered to arrange things. For example, the FPS market is saturated to the point where it hard for companies to make an game in that genre that would be noticeable, which means that it is expensive to enter that market...yet companies refuse to consider making games for other genres, which might not offer the greatest profit, but I think that it would be fairly easy to make some cash since there is relatively little competition to interfere. Tell Tale has proven this for the adventure game market, Dwarf Fortress's developers are living on donations for each month that typically exceed $3,000, and we got successful Humble Indie bundles.

Am I being unrealistic here, claiming to see these markets?

its bull that america gets forgotten by the usa. it goes both ways , they used to get games that we dont got in europe too.

more likely nintendo is forgetting all of us wii players. bringing 90% crap mini/party games or stuff like barbie games. this console is from 2006!
same goes for ds, over 5000 games but can you really name more then 20 good games for each?

Nothing illegal going on in that article though.

Has NOA ever given a reason to why they aren't publishing Xenoblade?

lol

That's not illegal, that's at most a Tort, and I'd be surprised to see it hold up in court.