Does it seem like the gamers in Europe get less attention

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It doesn't seem like we get less attention, we do get less attentionMass_Effect

Europe has always been shunted to the back of the line behind the US and Japan.

we got more expensive consoles and games later game releases and whats annoyed me recently is the backwards compatabiluity on the 360. why should americans get to play jet set radio and not usmgs617

At least you guys have tea time... 

Definitely. For example;

• There is still no sign we will get the Xbox 360 Elite.
• Minimum of 5 days later release date for all games. General 2 to 4 weeks later release.
• Everything costs more. 

Not just less attention, jacked-up prices, too. That goes for us Australians also, unfortunately, and I hear it's even more costly in New Zealand. We're used to it by now, but it's still damn annoying.

Not to mention games are generally released here in fewer quantities from what I've seen, so it's harder to Ebay up our region-specific version of games (especially older/rarer titles like Rez, which I'm currently looking for). 

It doesn't if you're PCgamer :D In such case it's US that gets less attentionAdrianWerner

How? 

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]It doesn't if you're PCgamer :D In such case it's US that gets less attentionXolver

How? 

Well..US games are released here with little or no delay, while a lot of european pc games is released in US many months(quire ofen more than 6 months) after Euro launch 

Yea, pretty much. I think it's because Europe hasn't given the gaming world any really major gaming contributions. America has Atari, Japan has Nintendo (and everything else :P), and Europe has...Ninja Gaiden for the Sega Master System :?.Video_Game_King

Maybe all the European countries should join as on big country so their trading policies won't force all imports to be like 2x as much as the product in its homeland. 

It doesn't if you're PCgamer :D In such case it's US that gets less attentionAdrianWerner

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]It doesn't if you're PCgamer :D In such case it's US that gets less attentionhaols

that's because of Vat :( Still, they're mostly about 30$ cheaper than console ones. And games might be released later, but not all and delay is mostly very short. On the other hand games like The longest Journey, Port Royale, Call of Juarez or Gothic2 were released in US a year after Europe releases. Such long delays are rare, but US launch 6 months after Euro launch is quite common. GTR, GTR 2, SIlent Storm, Port Royale, Armed Assault Nexus, GT Legends or Spellforce. Actualy majority of Euro games launch later in US than in Europe. 

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]It doesn't if you're PCgamer :D In such case it's US that gets less attentionhaols

Actually most PC games now are released simulataniously between Europe and the US. Except for the European developed games which oftern see very delayed release or no release at all in the US. This opposed to us still not having a release date for Paper Mario or Elite beat agents and waiting nigh on 6 months for the launch of the PS3. MS is actually quite a bit better than the other two console makers. Their games typically come out within weeks rather than months of the US release.

 PC games in Europe are actually much closer in cost to their US counter parts than Console games.

We the european gamers get less or atleast later attention than Japan/US.

Why? mainly because there are so many different languages in Europe. The devs feel that they need to include menus and game directions in all major languages.

English/Spanish/German/Italian/French and thats just for starters. There is a gazillion other languages aswell ,and in many of these countries the gamers are not up to date on their english. Or that is atleast what the devs and destributors think.

Either the citizens of other countries in Europe besides teh UK of course need to better their knowlage of English (that is if they really need to), or we the parts of Europe that have no problems with that language (Scandinavia) will have to continue to play the waiting game along with our friends from Great Britain........

[QUOTE="haols"][QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]It doesn't if you're PCgamer :D In such case it's US that gets less attentioncakeorrdeath

Actually most PC games now are released simulataniously between Europe and the US. Except for the European developed games which oftern see very delayed release or no release at all in the US. This opposed to us still not having a release date for Paper Mario or Elite beat agents and waiting nigh on 6 months for the launch of the PS3. MS is actually quite a bit better than the other two console makers. Their games typically come out within weeks rather than months of the US release.

 PC games in Europe are actually much closer in cost to their US counter parts than Console games.

that might very well be true. I guess it is easier to notice when you are forced to wait for a game to release here since you see the rewiev on this site and so on. When a game is released here first I'm generally busyplaying it instead :phaols

Too true. Plus the fact that Gamespot generally wont post the review untill it in approaching the US release date.

Well, yeah, they do. And there is, unfortunately, a solid economic reason behind that.
The reason is standardization. In Japan you have one nation operating under one set of guidelines. Same with the United States. But in Europe, you have a multitude of nations with a multitude of different languages, laws, etc etc.

It's gotten better lately with more standardization via the EU, but still a problem, and an unfortunate one for the European gamer. 

Or, at least that's my hypothesis. 

We the european gamers get less or atleast later attention than Japan/US.

Why? mainly because there are so many different languages in Europe. The devs feel that they need to include menus and game directions in all major languages.

English/Spanish/German/Italian/French and thats just for starters. There is a gazillion other languages aswell ,and in many of these countries the gamers are not up to date on their english. Or that is atleast what the devs and destributors think.

Either the citizens of other countries in Europe besides teh UK of course need to better their knowlage of English (that is if they really need to), or we the parts of Europe that have no problems with that language (Scandinavia) will have to continue to play the waiting game along with our friends from Great Britain........

bobbo

and thats what i hate about it. in the UK we all speak english so why not release the US versions here?

the brits dont need french, german or any other language games as very rarely will someone want to play in another language.

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leegar88

they are usually last when it comes to release dates.

and thats what i hate about it. in the UK we all speak english so why not release the US versions here?

the brits dont need french, german or any other language games as very rarely will someone want to play in another language.

reyad-u

Probalem lies in out TVs. We use the PAl format whilst the US and Japan use NTSC.

For something like the DS and PSP however I can see no reaosn why your suggestion wouldn't work.  

i hope i didnt sound extremely racist in anyway cos im not a racist person.reyad-u

Not at all. As long you understand that France > England. *runs out of thread*

[QUOTE="reyad-u"]

and thats what i hate about it. in the UK we all speak english so why not release the US versions here?

the brits dont need french, german or any other language games as very rarely will someone want to play in another language.

cakeorrdeath

Probalem lies in out TVs. We use the PAl format whilst the US and Japan use NTSC.

For something like the DS and PSP however I can see no reaosn why your suggestion wouldn't work.

[QUOTE="reyad-u"]i hope i didnt sound extremely racist in anyway cos im not a racist person.Socrates88

Not at all. As long you understand that France > England. *runs out of thread*

:lol: couldnt care which country is better. also this country is full of racists and chavs so i wouldnt actually be surprised if france was better.

[QUOTE="reyad-u"]

and thats what i hate about it. in the UK we all speak english so why not release the US versions here?

the brits dont need french, german or any other language games as very rarely will someone want to play in another language.

cakeorrdeath

Probalem lies in out TVs. We use the PAl format whilst the US and Japan use NTSC.

For something like the DS and PSP however I can see no reaosn why your suggestion wouldn't work.  

well yea that is true but how long does it take to change the signal from NTSC to PAL? they dont really have to wait until all the other translations have been finished.

i hope i didnt sound extremely racist in anyway cos im not a racist person.reyad-u

We the european gamers get less or atleast later attention than Japan/US.

Why? mainly because there are so many different languages in Europe. The devs feel that they need to include menus and game directions in all major languages.

English/Spanish/German/Italian/French and thats just for starters. There is a gazillion other languages aswell ,and in many of these countries the gamers are not up to date on their english. Or that is atleast what the devs and destributors think.

Either the citizens of other countries in Europe besides teh UK of course need to better their knowlage of English (that is if they really need to), or we the parts of Europe that have no problems with that language (Scandinavia) will have to continue to play the waiting game along with our friends from Great Britain........

bobbo