WrenchNinja
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Wow this is fucked up
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Nintendo just shot themselves in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Canadian culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Canada, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the canadian public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire for the 3DS, nor will they purchase any of Nintendo's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Nintendo has alienated an entire market with this move.
Nintendo, publicly apologize and make Canada part of the worldwide launch or you can kiss your business goodbye.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Canadian culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Canada, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the canadian public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire for the 3DS, nor will they purchase any of Nintendo's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Nintendo has alienated an entire market with this move.
Nintendo, publicly apologize and make Canada part of the worldwide launch or you can kiss your business goodbye.
names2hard4you
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We always get the short end if the stick... But to be fair I've seen a trend when it comes to Canada, games tend to take a little longer to actually show up on our databases too. I'm just gonna use Freedom Wars as an example. Amazon.com has had a pre order page for that up for ages now. We only got ours during E3. So I wouldn't panic too much fellow Canadians 
ScrabbleDude
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There's potentially going to be some good money in bringing these across the border and selling them ti Canadians a week early.
So at worst one week later, big deal...
AlphaTwo00
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Yes. Notable examples like Rock Band and Guitar Hero were upto 3 months difference, all because of language/packaging rules.
Holy Order Sol
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The "punishing" part is purely speculation at this point.
puffyshirt
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Well that's fucking stupid. I have a hunch this will change before release, at least with Canada. I can't think of one instance where a game was released later here than in the US, it makes absolutely no sense.
PhantomHound
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I think I found my new job: Pokemon game smuggler into Canada.
Cloud Strife
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WTF
If Nintendo is really holding back the release for Canada and the EU as punishment for XY leaking early in those regions, then that's extremely petty.
Any goodwill Nintendo earned this week may be wiped out thanks to a single dumbass decision.
Any goodwill Nintendo earned this week may be wiped out thanks to a single dumbass decision.
Oswen
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I can't really believe it's a punishing act.
Why punish thousands fans because some retailers broke an agreement? Take it on them.
The only result will be angry fans and a few lost sales while the previously mentioned retailers will just not care and sell the game a week later.
It really sounds like a childish reaction, there are probably other reasons behind the delay.
Why punish thousands fans because some retailers broke an agreement? Take it on them.
The only result will be angry fans and a few lost sales while the previously mentioned retailers will just not care and sell the game a week later.
It really sounds like a childish reaction, there are probably other reasons behind the delay.
I Want Your Cat
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Im excited for this one. I went back to hgss to catch all the legendaries to being them to oras. My rayquaza is awesome!
The original Rock Band was delayed ~two months in Canada iirc -- something we found out very close to release -- though that was likely because of a hardware shortage or a packaging thing.
Starwolf_UK
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Thing is NOE actually told MediaMarkt (a big German electronics retailer) there was no embargo and they could sell MK8 as soon as they got it in (source is a friend of an Internet comment so borderline tales from my ass but no reason to believe it to be a lie).
puffyshirt
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It has to be a petty punishment thing, there's literally no other reason, ESPECIALLY to fucking Canada.
ElectricKaibutsu
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I'm confused. Is it still releasing the same month or am I reading this wrong?
It is releasing in the same month "November 2014" but not the same day with US.
ahh man I still laughed
yeah we're harmless
we do people right. we the nicest people on the globe.
It is listed for November 2014 by the official site, yes
AuthenticM
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This is so weird.
Why ?
Why ?
KojiKnight
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More like tin-foil hat level conspiracy thinking.
puffyshirt
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And we take no extra effort to ship to. They couldn't even bullshit a believable reason
KojiKnight
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Let's break down what we know...
US has a release date of November 21st.
Canada has a release date of November.
Pokemon Company hasn't yet announced a specific date for Canada.
From these 3 peices of information people are assuming...
US now has a vendetta against Canadian pokemon players.
Nintendo/TPC are DEFINITELY not releasing the same day as US or even possibly earlier.
Nintendo is punishing Canada for it's early release of X/Y.
US has a release date of November 21st.
Canada has a release date of November.
Pokemon Company hasn't yet announced a specific date for Canada.
From these 3 peices of information people are assuming...
US now has a vendetta against Canadian pokemon players.
Nintendo/TPC are DEFINITELY not releasing the same day as US or even possibly earlier.
Nintendo is punishing Canada for it's early release of X/Y.
If it is punishment then you can bet your ass that this is TPC's doing, not Nintendo's
Official Pokemon website says World Wide November 2014.
We have had release parity with the States for the last 3+ games. Additionally, X and Y had a World Wide release date.
E3 Press Kit said:
Official Pokemon Website said:
I'm just saying Enju-chan
I'll go apeshit if, no matter how low of a chance, we get this delayed.
I added two quotes above. Being Canadian is tough.
Would you like to be European?
Maintenance
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They should do like they did with WWHD and release digital on 21th in every place, since that cannot be broken. Then manage the retail date as they please.
Yeah, I like digital. Come at me.
Azure Phoenix
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Why don't they just... you know... not ship copies to stores in Europe/Canada until 2-3 days before release? Seems like the fair option, UK stores already don't receive copies of most games until 1-3 days before the release date anyway.
Not our fault that Nintendo decide to ship their shit to stores 2-3 weeks early in a few countries.
Not our fault that Nintendo decide to ship their shit to stores 2-3 weeks early in a few countries.
indivisible
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Sorry I laughed. Nothing will happen, just like the protests at Ubi montreal over Rayman being delayed..... Canada is such a small part of the north american market. People with nintendo systems aren't gonna buy nintendo games? What will they play? Most people will probably blame living in Canada as to why we don't have it the same day not as a punishment, unless it is in the news or something.
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