> Europe is treated appallingly by most
> game/console manufacturers, therefore piracy
> is quite rife.
It's been like this since forever, I can remember as far back as 1998 when I started importing games from America and Japan, some of the Playstation games I owned would take as long as 9-12 months to be released in Europe, worse still, after all that time too with the inferior letter box displayed PAL slowdowned piece of crap.
Europe gets a bad deal with any system and especially games, some of which of course never make it out of Japan and some even don't make it out of the US to Europe. Which is clearly the reason WHY we have an import market and people buy systems before they're even released. And with the PS3 reported to be multi-region, expect many orders for Japanese consoles from abroard, more than ever.
> game/console manufacturers, therefore piracy
> is quite rife.
It's been like this since forever, I can remember as far back as 1998 when I started importing games from America and Japan, some of the Playstation games I owned would take as long as 9-12 months to be released in Europe, worse still, after all that time too with the inferior letter box displayed PAL slowdowned piece of crap.
Europe gets a bad deal with any system and especially games, some of which of course never make it out of Japan and some even don't make it out of the US to Europe. Which is clearly the reason WHY we have an import market and people buy systems before they're even released. And with the PS3 reported to be multi-region, expect many orders for Japanese consoles from abroard, more than ever.