- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Reclaimer NL
Your absolutely right, i live in the netherlands and i was asking myself the same question about WORLD WIDE release? hmmm i didnt see it in the faQs, musta misst it!
But yeah i would hate it to if they would said owh that game called halo 2 it will be released around march in the netherlands :(
I dont understand why not do a world wide release, sell as most games as you can in such a short time!!!
Why do does americans always get the upper hand!!!
I think the reason that there isn't a single world wide release date is baecuse of translation issues. I suppose it would be possible to release it in England and Canada at the same time as in the U.S. (are there any other english speaking nations out there?). In the end, it would just push the release date back for everyone. Also, while this is just a guess, I think that another reason for staggering the release date accross the world is because, in the event of a flop (I am refering to all games now, not just Halo 2), the company releaseing it won't go broke. So, that makes us sort of like lab rats, I guess (testing it out on us). And Americans don't ALWAYS 'get the upper hand'. Take, for example, Nintendo. It is based in Japan, and they always get their hands on games before Americans do. It really isn't any different than why you guy are complaining, and it is not in our favor.
Also, I havn't read the rest of this thread, so I don't know if this was already mentioned.