Why Does NOA Do this to me!

Post by **abeisgreat** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:14 am

Nintendo Of America SUCKS!!! For this main reason

Nintendo Of Europe gives away screensavers, backgrounds, and some items for star points.

Nintendo of japan Club nintendo gives away games!!! and other awesome stuff!

Why nintendo! why...

(i still love nintendo for there products but this makes me mad)

Post by **Pullmyfinger** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:32 am

Kotaku posted recently that it was because the US market had more people

Post by **Curlypaul** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:01 am

At least you can buy official replacement game cases from the NOA, no such service exists in Europe

Post by **abeisgreat** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:52 am

Curlypaul wrote:At least you can buy official replacement game cases from the NOA, no such service exists in Europe

Really i never knew

Post by **ImportBoy** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:14 pm

The whole thing about regions and region-specific stuff in the internet age really baffles me. Nintendo really seems to suck in this area this generation. As long as I'm paying I should be able to download Japanese Virtual Console games right? Nope!

At least with Sony and the PS3 you can easily make seperate accounts for other regions without any issues really. Get all of the foreign stuff you like! Not to mention the console itself is region-free for PS3 games.

Post by **GagaMan** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:33 pm

At least you guys don't have to wait months...sometimes close to a year (or two, in the case of Metroid prime Pinball) for Nintendo's game like here in Europe. The wait for Super Paper Mario was ridiculous.

Post by **rsn9910** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:44 pm

ImportBoy wrote:At least with Sony and the PS3 you can easily make seperate accounts for other regions without any issues really. Get all of the foreign stuff you like! Not to mention the console itself is region-free for PS3 games.

Are you sure it is that easy to make foreign accounts from within the US?
From what I heard about it on cheapassgamer podcast, at least on the Xbox360, I thought it to be a pain in the ass.

Post by **ImportBoy** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:01 pm

Are you sure it is that easy to make foreign accounts from within the US?

Yes, I have three PSN accounts right now. US, Japan, and Hong Kong. It was no problem at all signing up and there are tutorials online if you can't read Japanese. With a Hong Kong account you can get the interface and such in English. Mind you I have not tried buying anything on any of them, but it I imagine it shouldn't be difficult if they all accept credit cards.

I don't have a 360 so can't comment on that.

Post by **D.D.D.** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:30 am

Yeah I hear ya...
With promos and club stuff;
NOA does near jack.
NOE does very little and probably only because they take forever with games.
NCL does it all because (my presumtion here) it wants to create loyalty with cool items for game purchases.

I don't know if any of you know this but (I learned it after joining Club Nintendo), the amount of points you get for your game purchases depends on when you buy the game/system. For example, I bought a new DS game and got 25 (or 30) points and then I got and older game (like from 4~5 months ago) and I only got 10 points.
Trivial? Perhaps. Interesting? Your milage may vary. :roll: