Nintendo Wanted To Make Its Humble Bundle A Global Offer, Expects To Do So "Eventually"

Considering the Humble Bundle right now have games not released in EU I doubt they are talking of this bundle or anything happening really soon.

Anyway I'll be really glad to see an offer like this open Worldwide, if I understood well this is doing charity while getting amazing games in return right? I can't really see anyone not be interested in that

I'm just excited that Nintendo is open to embracing concepts such as Humble Bundle.
The Humble folks are really quite phenomenal, so it's great to see companies like Nintendo working with them.

Tired of all this region specific or region locks... Switched back to my Vita in which i can use a Japanese cartridge with no pb.

This means Nintendo are producing large numbers of download keys right? I wonder if that'll lead to something like what steam keys are?

Humble Bundle region locked because Nintendo.

Oh please oh please oh please oh pleaseeeee! Crying out from the UK for this!

They are smart to use Steamworld Dig as the bait for people to pay over $10.

I'd love to have this kind of option in future in the UK!! The game selection isn't the best for me there anyway as I have most of those but in future I'd love the option....it's great value AND helps charities!! fingers crossed.

The main purpose of this is to give to charity. Sure they offer great games but it is about helping great causes. I bought this because I hope it encourages Nintendo do this more. And instead of the rest of the world whining give to some local charities. This is just the first one and maybe sometime later this year Nintendo does this again and it will be open to Europe too.

The wildcard here is whether Japan would warm up to the concept. I want to see what games NoJ would put up.

Whatever they eventually get on a Humble deal for the EU will be welcome - it's a great initiative from Nintendo.

I wonder if Sony and MS will follow suite?

They tried for months to make it global but obviously their archaic region-locking made it rather problematic...

Different bundle pls - got most of these already.

Well at least they tried. I know I am going to take advantage of this deal!

Was able to get all the featured games for $10.50! The only one I had was Moon Chronicles. If you've never tried any of these games and you've got some money to spend, this is completely worth it!

Always good to know they aren't all as dense At Nintendo as one would suspect. But actions speak louder than words. Nintendo has always been good with words.

"Tried for months to make it global" I hope so.
I hope it will not end like: 1 bundle for NA per month and one bundle for Europe per 2 months or worse (no further bundles).

Glad they are trying to make it work.

I'm getting tired of Nintendo's region specific policies. I'll buy this bundle if it comes to Europe. I wasn't planning on getting any of these games individually, so I won't spend money on them without the bundle.

Hopefully Nintendo can figure out a way to avoid this issue and region locking as a whole with their next console.

Being a North American exclusive bundle is one ire of the Humble Community (another is its DRM).

@crimsontadpoles
They don't need to wait until their next console (if there even is one). They can update their handhelds and consoles right now, if they wanted to. Which they obviously do not intend to do. Region-locking is a self-inflicted problem.

@ZenTurtle I think the bigger problem is that some of the games haven't released in Europe yet

America gets a Humble Bundle, the rest of the world gets the New Nintendo 3DS...somehow I think you guys are still winning, but okay.

@Asaki And Wii games.

Only one I had was Mighty Switch Force (Wii U version). I paid $20 and I'm SO glad.

For anybody who bought it first couple hours it came out, did you get the full Moon Chronicles, or just episode 1? I don't remember seeing that "Episode 1" below it when I first looked. It's about the only thing I want in the bundle, but for the current price, it's really not worth it.

US only? Damn. The bundle was to be my first purchase on payday, tomorrow. I was too excited to read any small print.

I warned you.

-Tw

This is one era where Nintendo really need to get with the 21st century. If Sony and Microsoft can make their machines region-free, I'm pretty sure the barriers to Nintendo doing the same are hardly insurmountable.

And yes, I know that not all the games are available in all regions, but with a pay-what-you-want model that's hardly a problem, and I'm sure they could arrange substitutions for Europe and Japan given the plethora of indie games on the systems. Heck, even those of us in Australia needn't be left out.

They could put a system where people state their region or country before they proceed to the bundle page.

Cannot wait for this, really great to see nintendo doing humble bundles

That sounds nice. Maybe they'll just forget about it, but if not, having an Australia release would be fantastic.

I'm sick and tired of us missing out on almost everything...

This means we will get more humble bundles

@ZenTurtle They don't even need to they can do it on a case by case basis. (See the Louvre guide which is region free)

Eventually for most people would be next week. For Nintendo it might be 5 years time.

Expects To Do So "Eventually"
See you in 2020.

Maybe that 3DS Nintendo animation thing (I've already forgotten it's name) will arrive to Europe before these.