Topic: Does NintendoLife hate/ignore Australia in regards to new Nintendo information

I have been a long time reader of the NintendoLife content. Most of the content is really well done. I am seriously impressed by it.
But one issue has got to me. It's been releated often enough that I felt forced to join up to the forums and as why it is still happening.

The issue is when NintendoLife mentions anying to do with Europe, such as eShop releases, NintendoLife mention Europe always. NintendoLife never mention Australia in the same articles. Most of the time Australia shares the same releases with Europe. This is particularly true for most eShop releases. I say most of the time as rsometimes the Australian and Europe release dates are different.

Secondly when you mention special Nintendo events, you give the times for the event in NA and Europe but never mention any Australian times for the event.

I am just asking why NintendoLife is doing this. I don't really know if NintendoLife hate or are ignoring Australia or there is another reason we do not know about.

I ask this on behalf of the Australians who visit the NintendoLife website.
Thank you for your time.

I think it's just what you'd expect to happen given how Nintendo themselves function. How they do their PR, what the regional hierarchy is. Nintendo of Japan is effectively the boss, every other region listens to what they have to say. The other region HQs are mostly there just for Marketing, PR and distribution. Europe and NA are about on par with each other. Nintendo of Australia is in theory the same but they aren't as big. Sometimes Nintendo of Australia do their own thing, sometimes they let Nintendo of Europe do the work.

I know an Australian Nintendo site who does do a weekly eShop update. They don't get a specific press release for Australia every week. They post the one for Europe and then edit it once the weekly update is live. Change prices, remove stuff that we didn't get and so on. That's just how it is.

That's probably because the population of Europe is 750 million and the population of Australia is 23 million?

I'm sure whether people speak english slants that quite a bit when you translate it to website users but still, they've obviously gotta focus on the majority.

Also, I think a lot of the people who run this site are from the UK. The might not mention Australia. Why don't they mention India's release dates?

Europe and NA (excluding Mexico) are the largest regions for Nintendo products alongside Japan. I've seen some news relating to Australia though.

Latin America is almost never mentioned here, but it's understandable.

I heard Ant Dickens refused to even acknowledge the existence of Australia after watching Crocodile Dundee III. So blame Paul Hogan, I guess.

Quick question: does the water in your toilet go down clockwise or counter-clockwise when you flush? Asking for a friend.

I'd like this confirmed as well.

Why the fronk was the Pokken Tournament delay in Australia not covered on this website? Methinks that this site might be anti-Aussie.

Seriously though why the heck wasn't that news story covered?!

@Stu13 @Klimbatize Counterclockwise. I've been in the Southern Hemisphere once and it's due to the magnetic pole being the opposite in the two hemispheres. North is positive and South is negative.

It doesn't go down, it comes up. Everytime you flush your toilet, someone in Australia has to clean theirs.

I've seen Australia mentioned and reported on here before. Specifically during the Club Nintendo years....I always was jealous of the cool rewards the Aussie's got (Japan players too, for that matter).....

Cheers, mate~

Water goes down the drain however it wants.

Lol that's got to be the response of the day.

I believe it was covered at first, but that was actually a mistake since it is listed as releasing in fall which is what the season would be there while it is spring up north so the article was deleted.

Yep, someone had a brain fart. We're unlikely to ever experience a white Christmas, you lucky buggers.

Anyway, a bit more Aussie details would be nice (particularly prices for the week's eshop releases/sales) NL does have one (?) Aussie article writer. But if you're desperate for info, Vooks is entirely catered to Aussies.

Also, in case other Aussies don't know, you can get a Hoopa code for X, Y, OR, AS from JB HiFi and EB Games from Monday.

"Your population is small, you mean nothing to us and we're not afraid to admit we forgot you."

You forget us until I give the order to release the Drop Bears.

What delay are you talking about? The fact that it is being released on the 19th instead of the 18th? When considering the timezone differences, we technically get games the earliest when the release date is the same worldwide. We'll simply be getting the game a few hours after the rest of the world does.

We hardly got any rewards, and any good stuff (such as the SNES classic controller and the gold nunchuk) sold out within a few hours (if that!). Our Club Nintendo catalogue was an absolute joke. I'm glad I got some neat soundtracks out of it, but I would have loved to have been able to get the awesome Pokémon Platinum themed DS Lite and the K.K. Slider soundtrack, among some of the other cool stuff released elsewhere.

From Wiki, these are the four divisions and their sub-divisions. A/B I'm saying they're split across multiple locations. A + B I'm saying two things are at the one location. I think it kinda makes a bit of a point about which regions have the resources:

Nintendo of Japan: Japan (Tokyo/Kyoto), China, South Korea, Hong Kong
Nintendo of America: USA (Redmond/California/Georgia/Washington), Canada (Vancouver/Toronto)
Nintendo of Europe: Germany (NoE + ND), France, The Netherlands, Spain (Spain/Portugal), Italy, UK, Russia
Nintendo of Australia: Australia (NAL + The Pokemon Company)

Because of how small Nintendo of Australia is? We kinda have to just accept that we won't get as much specific information. We won't get our own Nintendo Directs or anything like that. In theory they can act independently of Europe, in practice? Not so much.

Also in terms or region locking there are only really three regions. We're with Europe on that one. So it only makes sense that we're tied to Europe. If a game is created for Europe we can technically import it and play it on our devices so, why wouldn't they link us up with Europe? Why Europe and not the US? Well I don't know, we could really be either. We're on the fence, we're kinda both. Though I think in terms of culture? We probably line up with Europe ever so slightly more than the US.

Our Nintendo Directs are just slightly rebranded versions of the European directs. And we did in fact get at least ONE Australia-exclusive Nintendo Direct when Nintendo announced the New 3DS, with Australia and New Zealand being the first countries outside of Japan to get the upgraded system. Unfortunately, no software actually utilised the capabilities of the New 3DS (such as amiibo functionality) until it was released everywhere else in the world, so the early Australian release was arguably useless.

There has been a small number of games released in Australia that haven't been released in Europe, but it is a negligible amount, and Europeans can just import from Australia if they so desire (the only game that springs to mind from this console generation is Scribblenauts: Unmasked).

I'd argue that it's because we're closer to Britain in terms of our vernacular and culture (as much as the U.S. likes to exert its cultural imperialism over the rest of the world), which makes sense as Australia is one of the Commonwealth nations and technically, Queen Elizabeth II is our head of state.