MrSardonic said:you know I wish Nintendo would announce at E3 that they will finally stop shafting Europe. They've been talking about it for years, but Europe still sees hardware and software months after the US and at inflated prices. DSL and new DS games will be late to Europe, Wii will be late to Europe, Wii games will miss the Xmas period in Europe and get March release dates - it's a standard and pathetic pattern, especially given the size and importance of the European market. Referencing the occasional title that made it out within 4 weeks of US launch does not make up for the systematic delays in the majority of titles and updates/colors of hardware.
Whoever stops fucking Europe first will win
What are you (and those others) talking about? Sure, there's some games that still take ages to come here, but most of the time the games are only a month or two (or three at most) late. You simply can't ignore the fact that the translation takes time.
Also since everything is released here "couple of" months later, we will still be playing all the games all the time. I mean, when we're playing some game in January, we're done with it when some new game comes out in February. It doesn't matter if some game has been released in US or Japan already, because we haven't played the previous game yet (which was released in US or Japan a month earlier), so we always have something to play before the next game comes "late".
The only thing different is that we (Europeans) can't discuss about the games with some (US) forum members at the same time. But if you think about it, US is as much screwed compared to Japan as Europe is screwed compared to US. And it's again because of the translation time needed.
Nintendo could make it so that the games are translated to all languages before they're being released anywhere (including Japan), but you know that would be stupid. So the current system makes sense.
(I don't know if this made any sense, so in short: I think Nintendo is doing an OK job with European market)