Ah, the barcode is for The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

You rascals

Mario Strikers: Battle League was released worldwide simultaneously just 3 weeks ago. Nintendo obviously has no qualms about supporting a sport more popular in Europe than America.

That said, where’s Mario American Football? And it’s been a while since Mario Hoops and Mario Sluggers.

@Background Pony #263F
I am simply going to reply to you once because I don’t want to have a long argument unrelated to the image.

Sure, I will concede that Minish Cap and Shadow Dragon were released in Europe before America. But on most of the games I have seen, the American release occurred before the European one. Also, some of the ones I mentioned were either the first in their franchise, or the first in their franchise to be released internationally, making America more of a test market for unproven concepts than Europe.

Also, wouldn’t Europe would be a horrible test market because you have to translate the game several times and deal with different regulatory agencies as opposed to just doing it once or twice for a US+Can or Aus+NZ release?

I was picking different games from different years for the sake of variety. You yourself claim that Nintendo has “decades of history” of doing this, so I listed games from three different decades.

The Gamecube version is the same game with a few new features and minor alterations.

Yes, it’s kind of a given that a Japanese company would release things in Japan first. Also, localization takes time.
The original topic of this conversation was a comparison between America and Europe specifically, with no mention of releases in Japan.

About a sport that’s less popular in the United States than it is in Europe.

@Twiface
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon was released in Europe three months before America.
Legend of Zelda:The Minish Cap was released in Europe two months before America.
NES games? Really? You know Super Mario Bros 3 was released in Japan over a year before America right?
The first Animal Crossing game was a N64 Japan-only game.
The first Paper Mario game was released in Japan eight months before America.
And Inazuma Eleven 2, 3, GO 1, GO 2 and Strikers were released in Europe but not in America.

I especially like how you bring up Super Mario and then have to go all the way back to the 1980s just to find an example.

@Background Pony #263F
No, literally the opposite is the case: before Nintendo released things simultaneously everywhere, they had a long history of releasing things in America before Europe.

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade was released in America more than six months before Europe.
Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker was released in America over a month before Europe.
Super Mario Bros. 3 was released in America over a year before Europe.
The first Animal Crossing game was released in America over a year before Europe.
The first Paper Mario game was released in America eight months before Europe.
Earthbound/Mother 2 was released in America but not in Europe.

I think my point has been made.

@Background Pony #263F
Wait, are you talking about the original Fire Emblem game, or the later ones? Because I did do a Google Search. Fire Emblem is a series that was released worldwide my friend. That is what I was talking about. Sure, the original game wasn’t actually released in the US (much like Earthbound 3, a subject of several memes), and that series didn’t get an international release until the seventh installment, Fire Emblem the Blazing Blade. Following that game’s success all subsequent games have been released internationally.

@Eragor14
The fact that you couldn’t even bother to do a Google search says it all.

@Background Pony #263F
Fire Emblem was released in the States

@Eragor14
Fire Emblem.

@Background Pony #263F
Source please?
I always thought that pretty much all Nintendo games are released worldwide regardless of if they are first or third party. With the eShop, games can be released simultaneously in all regions of the world via the Internet without licensing issues. This is true with all online game stores for the most part, including Steam and the Epic Games Store.
In terms of physical releases it would be a bit more of a mixed bag. But digital games can be released anywhere and everywhere with much lower costs.

@Eragor14
Lol.

Nintendo has decades of history bringing games to Europe but not North America. They use Europe as a market test because it’s a smaller market so if it fails it’s a smaller fail. And that’s first party games. The vast majority of third party Nintendo games don’t even get a European release, let alone a North American release because of licensing fees.

@Background Pony #263F
I would think it would be released in North America as well. That is just as big a market for Nintendo as Europe is. Generally speaking games get released in both countries.

Europe is the region that would get this game on Switch.

@K1rby
Yeah, I know that, but this specific version of the game (made for the Nintendo Switch) doesn’t exist. Also, there isn’t any sort of physical copy of Equestria at War, since that (as you said) is a mod for a game and not a fully original game.

@Eragor14
The Game ACTUALLY exists. It’s a mod for a ww2 war game galled Hearts Of Iron IV. It’s a total conversion mod and well put together, bunch of let’s plays for different countries

Real

I wish.

So…this is the European issue of Equestrian at War? I wonder if it would be the type of game that would only be released in Europe, and not get any sort of international release.

Either way, this is a really well designed cover for the game. It definitely looks like something I would buy if it existed in reality.