Nintendo Cracks Down On European Importers

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Gamesindustry.biz article describing Nintendo's attempts to stop European retailers importing Gamecube/GBA games. According to the piece, "..cease and desist orders have been issued to a number of independent retailers by Nintendo this week, demanding that they stop selling imported Nintendo titles and supply details of their suppliers." With handheld titles such as Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire lacking regional lock-outs, and even US/Japanese Gamecube games being playable with the help of Freeloader, Nintendo are clearly worried about imported titles taking away from native European sales, but as Gamesindustry.biz points out, "..the move will prevent [consumers] from playing titles which Nintendo of Europe has failed to release in this territory, such as the highly acclaimed Animal Crossing."

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Nintendo repeats its past...

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Nintendo should stick to two things right now...

Making BETTER games for the Game Cube and
Making BETTER games for the Gamboy Advance (SP)

Nintendo's selection of original games have gone down drastically. If a game is seriously crappy then releasing it in another market is not going to save it. Reguardless of what you do to try and stop import releases.

The market as of this moment cannot sustain another video game war without consequences. If they keep releasing games without content they are going to die. Who needs to buy one game across 3 different systems? Seriously. I sure won't.

Resident Evil can only be done so many times before the series just bloats and dies. Look at what is happening with Tomb Raider. It took them this long to release a Mario Kart game?

Whats the deal with that? Why do we constantly have to be assaulted by truly horrible games and seriously overpriced hardware? Something has to break sooner later.