Eurogamer: Zelda's launch timing in Europe is still unclear

When should Zelda: Breath of the Wild release in Europe?


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I'm interested in what this means:

Multiple sources close to Nintendo have now told Eurogamer that, at the end of last year, Japan finalised its plans and had a change of heart: Switch needed the strongest possible launch lineup.

Does this men Nintendo merely thinks Zelda is a stronger launch title than Mario..or that both are coming at launch? The wording kind of makes me think its the latter.
 
Delay = Switch no buy. I'm not mad, just that I'm not very passionate about Switch so that would be enough to nudge me over to the "do not buy" side of things :D
 
this is just a tactic to make the underwhelming presentation look better to us.
we're now all expecting the game to miss launch and then we'll be happy if we get it.

at least i hope so.

but if our consolation prize is mario, i don't want to win anyway.

Yes, Nintendo is leaking info to Eurogamer to make up for a presentation where the vast majority who will watch have never heard of Eurogamer, much less read the article in question. Is this sarcasm or are you serious?
 
I've seen this a few times here, but I just want to echo that I reallllly hope Mario is day one as well...

For my European friends... and me!
 
Not really. Nintendo of Europe has been on par with release dates/localisations this gen (with a few exceptions, like Fire Emblem Fates).

And Captain Toad. And NES Remix. And Xenoblade Chronicles X. And Rhythm Heaven. And Yokai Watch. And Picross 2. I'ms sure there're a lot more i forgot.
 
Not really. Nintendo of Europe has been on par with release dates/localisations this gen (with a few exceptions, like Fire Emblem Fates).

You are correct that the ELD has been on point for some time now but don't forget that they've struggled in the past (Xenoblade X) and caused release dates to slip.
 
How recently do you think those in-shop promos were printed?

I'm guessing within the last month and if they knew there was a delay they wouldn't have put "coming in March 2017" all over the BOTW stuff. It'd be really stupid to know that they would miss launch and not just change that to "coming soon". I'm still holding out hope for a full worldwide release, either that or region free so I can grab a NA copy.
 
It's a difficult situation for nintendo to be in. The obviously want the game out for launch, but localisation for several languages i could imagine being a massive task, especially with a game this size.

It's not a simple case of straight up translation either or releasing the american version on the store (though that be a nice option) it is making sure that simple things make sense to people, i.e Bacon being Bacon and not ham, and Armour being called Armour instead of Armor. Also certain Meme's/jokes/phrases only make sense in certain regions. That may not seem like much, or silly, but i do think the small details do matter. I wouldn't mind waiting for a Uk translation, sure it sucks not to have the game at launch if true, but hey, it's not the end of the world, plenty of other stuff to hopefully be playing on the Switch.
 
And Captain Toad. And NES Remix. And Xenoblade Chronicles X. And Rhythm Heaven. And Yokai Watch. And Picross 2. I'ms sure there're a lot more i forgot.
Xenoblade X came out the same day as in the US. The other games came out later for other reasons, like when Yoshi came out months later in America.
 
And Captain Toad. And Xenoblade Chronicles X. And Rhythm Heaven. And Yokai Watch. And Picross 2. I'ms sure there're a lot more i forgot.

What ? Xenoblade X released in the same time as in NA. Picross 3D 2 was delayed because they wanted a retail release instead of digital-only. Same for Rhythm Heaven. Captain Toad had a mere two weeks delay, and likely just for planning reasons. Yokai Watch was delayed not for localization purposes but in order to match with the cartoon airing in Europe.

All of these cases are for completely different reasons than localisations. That's like saying that Xenoblade got a delayed relelase date in NA because of localization : no, that's because NoA didn't care about the game at all, until it got released in EU.
 
I don't really think this is a good idea. The delay really can not be longer than a month tops. You cant launch a title this big 3 months late and expect your sales to be strong.

Further more if NCL wants switch launch to be as strong as possible that it is pushing out Zelda than doesnt that imply launch was looning extremely weak?
 
Lol. People would riot. A Zelda game not Multi-5 at launch, in 2016 ? It's not 1985 anymore.
But wouldn't English, French and Spanish cover majority of European population? It leaves out Germany, Italy and Portugal certainly, but there has to be decent amount of English speakers in those countries, no? I know in Netherlands and Scandinavia at least most people speak English.
 
This is the same company that releases brand new pokemon games in Europe a week after the rest of the world because /shrug.

I'm totally expecting to have to wait a week/2 weeks more than everyone else
 
But wouldn't English, French and Spanish cover majority of European population? It leaves out Germany, Italy and Portugal certainly, but there has to be decent amount of English speakers in those countries, no? I know in Netherlands and Scandinavia at least most people speak English.

They won't release a Zelda game without complete Multi-5. It will have every languages, and likely release at the same time as NA and JP.
 
What ? Xenoblade X released in the same time as in NA. Picross 3D 2 was delayed because they wanted a retail release instead of digital-only. Same for Rhythm Heaven. Captain Toad had a mere two weeks delay, and likely just for planning reasons. Yokai Watch was delayed not for localization purposes but in order to match with the cartoon airing in Europe.

All of these cases are for completely different reasons than localisations. That's like saying that Xenoblade got a delayed relelase date in NA because of localization : no, that's because NoA didn't care about the game at all, until it got released in EU.

My bad, I was sure it was delayed but it might be becasue it was out of stock for a good time when it came out.
 
Now I can't without a doubt say Nintendo will definitely launch Botw simultaneously (it would be stupid not to...but with Nintendo anything is possible) but that anything is unclear at this point is utter bull.
 
But wouldn't English, French and Spanish cover majority of European population? It leaves out Germany, Italy and Portugal certainly, but there has to be decent amount of English speakers in those countries, no? I know in Netherlands and Scandinavia at least most people speak English.

Don't some people get mad in France/Spain about playing a game in Quebec French/Latin American Spanish and vice-versa since the dialects are different? I remember reading that on here.

I've always had the impression that NOA & NOE do their own separate English/French/Spanish translations, which seems like a huge waste of resources.
 
My bad, I was sure it was delayed but it might be becasue it was out of stock for a good time when it came out.

That is true, the game was really hard to find on December 4th and people who didn't preorder had to wait until December 13th to find the game (at least in France).
 
This is the same company that releases brand new pokemon games in Europe a week after the rest of the world because /shrug.

I'm totally expecting to have to wait a week/2 weeks more than everyone else


They did this because they knew street date was gonna be broken in Europe. And that's what happened. Even Amazon Broke the EU official release date.
 
But wouldn't English, French and Spanish cover majority of European population? It leaves out Germany, Italy and Portugal certainly, but there has to be decent amount of English speakers in those countries, no? I know in Netherlands and Scandinavia at least most people speak English.

You think the English of 12-year-old German kids is good enough to play a Zelda game? For markets such as Greece English is fine, that's what they're used to. But Germany/Austria/Switzerland? No way.
 
You think the English of 12-year-old German kids is good enough to play a Zelda game? For markets such as Greece English is fine, that's what they're used to. But Germany/Austria/Switzerland? No way.
Good point. That's what 80-90 million people.
 
You think the English of 12-year-old German kids is good enough to play a Zelda game? For markets such as Greece English is fine, that's what they're used to. But Germany/Austria/Switzerland? No way.

I played through english games before i even could read/understand it. Those kids will be fine with English, especialy at age 12.
 
You think the English of 12-year-old German kids is good enough to play a Zelda game? For markets such as Greece English is fine, that's what they're used to. But Germany/Austria/Switzerland? No way.

Tbf. I wish countries like Germany would be more like Sweden or Finland when it comes to learning another language by consuming media.
 
But wouldn't English, French and Spanish cover majority of European population? It leaves out Germany, Italy and Portugal certainly, but there has to be decent amount of English speakers in those countries, no? I know in Netherlands and Scandinavia at least most people speak English.
Italy is a big deal. We don't speak English that much and developers have to translate games for a market that's not even that big.
I remember when all games were in english... that's how I learned this language in fact all your base belong to us. Congraturations.
 
Well, this could explain the conflicting reports about its launch date.

That's... A pretty tough situation for NoE, especially consider the rumors about the Switch being region free. What I'm wondering though is the Wii U launch date, will they pull off a TP again? I can't really afford a Switch yet.
 
I played through english games before i even could read/understand it. Those kids will be fine with English.
Breaking News: Things have changed since then.

Tbf. I wish countries like Germany would be more like Sweden or Finland when it comes to learning another language by consuming media.
I hate our German obsession with localising everything just as much. It's counterproductive to make teaching English easier. But that's not the point here. Zelda won't change people's opinions on this topic.
 
I played through english games before i even could read/understand it. Those kids will be fine with English, especialy at age 12.

Germans are lazy since they are used to get German translations for everything. Even if most could do it, they would complain anyway.
 
Good point. That's what 80-90 million people.

Germany: ~80 million
Austria: ~8.5 million
Switzerland: ~8 million

Do note that in Switzerland a sizable part of the population has French (~23%) or Italian (~8%) as their first language instead of German, so a BOTW release would need to be MULTI3 at least.
 
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