my face right now
finally , US region got a game and not Europe
wait...SMT 4 didn't got release for Europe too ?
but..region lock is really bad , hope nintendo remove it for good
Do you live in some parallel universe or something? Just from a quick perusal of my games shelves and memory, here's a list of the games I had to import during the PS1 & PS2 generation due to them not getting a release in Europe, I'm not excluding games that eventually came over on a different platform (years later) like FFT and Tactics Ogre as that is besides the point.
Xenosaga
Xenosaga Ep3
Shadow Hearts FTNW
Grandia 3
Grandia Xtreme
Tsuganai Atonement
Okage
Tales of the Abyss
Tales of Legendia
Suikoden 3
Radiata Stories
Growlanser Generations
Valkyrie Profile
Shining Force Neo
Shining Tears
Shining Force EXA
Lunar
Lunar 2
Brigandine
Vanguard Bandits
Dragon Warrior VII
Final Fantasy Tactics
Tactics Ogre
Parasite Eve
Persona
Persona 2: EP
SaGa Frontier
Tales of Destiny
Tales of Destiny II (Eternia)
Thousand Arms
Threads of Fate
Wild ARMs 2
Xenogears
hack//G.U. vol. 1//Rebirth
.hack//G.U. vol. 2//Reminisce
.hack//G.U. vol. 3//Redemption
Arc the Lad: End of Darkness
Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories
Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy
Metal Saga
MS Saga: A New Dawn
Romancing SaGa
Wild Arms Alter Code: F
Eternal Poison
Front Mission 4
That's almost 50 games in my favourite genre that I had to import during the ps1 and ps2 generations, games that I had to circumvent Sony's region locking in order to play (and the list does not include the games I've imported in order to avoid the monolithic period of time between PAL and NTSC releases during that generation). It wasn't fun, it wasn't always cheap and I'd have preferred these titles to have seen releases in my region within a reasonable timeframe.
But yeah, clearly Europe gets
ALL the games and the US always misses out... And for those games that the publishers did deign to offer to European customers, check out the sizeable gap between the US launch and Europe's launch date.
On a slight tangent, that Operation Rainfall came to exist because THREE rpgs possibly might not come out in the states was one of the most amusing things I've ever seen on the internet and it seems that you have fooled yourself into thinking europe is some kind of localisation nirvana when the reality is far from this. Things have improved on the whole in recent years but situations like this and Nintendo insistence on region locking and remaining trapped in their little bubble world of ignorance (something which they will ultimately pay the price for) is doing much to propel users of their consoles back to the dark ages of PAL gaming. This isn't (or certainly shouldn't be) some competition about us and them, snickering because one side gets something the other doesn't, in this equation one group of players simply cannot play the others games due to an arbitrary, antiquated restriction and that, in terms of gaming & enjoyment of a diverse entertainment medium, is of benefit to no one.