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We are fed up. Its time for us to be heard.

An Aussie-Nintendo reader from New Zealand has compiled a report and informed the popular Australian Nintendo fansite about it.

In the e-mail sent by Davies to A-N he wrote, "I have recently penned a formal report relating to the common delays of Nintendo's Wii software releases, specifically in the regions of Australia and New Zealand. After listening to your most recent Podcast, I can tell you too are concerned about this issue.

Consumers around our regions are getting bullied and manipulated into unfair and borderline illegal region locking that prevents Wii owners from importing the much earlier released US versions of software."

Aaron Davies raises many good points in this well-written report. Nintendo have been bullying us, treating us like garbage and seems that they might actually be breeching legislation relating to free trade and parallel importing. And if this is the case then I hope court cases follow because a stop must be put to this.

Inside Aaron lists various release dates that Nintendo has given for Wii games and how many months it takes each game to reach us. But then compares it to the third party developers who have NO problem giving us games in a matter of weeks after America receives them.

For full story check out the report linked to in the quote, right click and save if you want to download it. Its an Adobe PDF file and WELL worth reading, especially if you wonder why I ***** about Nintendo so much.

"The resolution is looking very simple; either Nintendo of Australia should remove region locking mechanisms present in consoles, or start releasing game software in far more appropriate time frames. It is clear to see by the facts presented that the bullying and manipulation has gone on long enough. Consumers should not be placed at such an extreme disadvantage for no technical or logical reason what so ever."

We even have to pay more money for these insanely late games, generally an extra $40AU. Now tell me, how is that fair?

You'd best be listening, Nintendo. Your epic phailure hopefully won't continue much longer.

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Good. It's about time someone stood up. Now don't let this fall on deaf ears. Keep pushing it so that Nintendo truly gets the message.

In the UK we get a triple-whammy of disappointment!

- The games are generally a few months later
- The games are often twice the price of the US counterparts
- The games are sometimes inferior because instead of adjusting the frame rate to 50fps, They slow the whole game down. Also, Even if PAL60 is available it often has bars on the top and bottom of the picture because NTSC TV's are lower resolution than PAL and SECAM and PAL60 is just the NTSC output with PAL colouring.

I think someone needs to be writing to Satoru Shibata or Reggie... i cant believe we have to wait for MP3... d4rk is right but i havent noticed the framerate making anything any better or any worse

You can notice if you play an NTSC copy of a game (on an NTSC TV) and a PAL version of a game (on a PAL TV) side by side

Ouch New Zeland
I have a online freind from there
He has to import his games from the UK

In Ireland (basically the UK ), we too are sick of this. Not just because we're whining about release dates, but because they are worse in quality, PAL60 genuinely sucks, because of "Rip Off Ireland" we get burned for an extra $30-45 quite easily for a simple Wii title, and naturally, release dates. We speak English, and so does the UK, AU and NZ, shouldn't we get games at the same time as the USA? As for other language countries, I really don't represent them.

Band together PAL gamers. I hope Nintendo Australia lose $$$ because of this. This just isn't right and we need to make Nintendo see that we won't stand for this anymore.

Remove the region lock or give us games earlier, otherwise they are screwed.

Fight the power man!

I myself am writing to Nintendo Australia tonight and will alert them to this report. No doubt many other people already have but the more that do, the better chance there is that they will read it.

I'm sure they don't want to end up with legal implications over this.

Can't you just buy NTSC tv's for gaming and then just use an adapter for power supply issues? You could just import ALL your games, as the hassle would be well worth the cost reduction and earlier release dates.

edit: this post is not condoning nintendo's doings however.

That's what most of us are considering, hell the owner of Nintendo's largest Australian fansite is ditching his Australian Wii and getting an NTSC one.

But that's not the issue, we shouldn't have to do that. PAL Nintendo's should be more on the ball or at the very least allow the Wii to be region free.

Instead of these several months of delay bs. Nintendo phails.

Yes, I knew you would say that as I was posting that, (hence the edit)

Ah, something UK is jealous about the US for...

I think Nintendo is plotting something, not enough parts for Wii's, delayed release dates? hmmmmmm.

Or they are just incompetent bullies...

Most companies still do that, but if they don't change what can you do?

What if you still want to play Metroid but they still don't do worldwide releases.

Well, depending on how serious this breech of free trade is who knows what could happen.

I'd love to see someone take Nintendo to court and rape them.

What if they dont bring Metroid to Aussie? XD

Then I will abandon Nintendo.

Sony can do it. MS tries. Why can't Nitnendo?