The eShop is Opening Up in More European Countries Soon

If someone lives in the above countries and buys Nintendo games probably have just already chosen UK as region as I did ages ago. It may be useful for those that have credit cards that don't work in the UK for some reason.

By the way in some of those countries videogames are way expensive.

I'm surprised it wasn't available in those countries until now.

Will this mean we can finally use streetpass without changing our region to UK?

That's cool, but...
I live in Hungary, and I've already registered myself as a citizen of Ireland (so I can use Nintendo's online features), and once you choose a country, you can't change it.

I had no idea! Good for those countries but as @Krisi just said (hi from Ireland krisi ☺) people reg for different countries. So I wonder if much money will be made.

Hopefully.

Meanwhile, in Brazil...

@Krisi In the Wii U, you can simply make another account. I have a Brazilian account, which i use to actually play, and a Canadian one, which I only access to buy e-Shop titles.

Iam own 3ds apx. 1 month so i delete my fake account and create a new one here in SLOVAKIA.. Thanks alot nintendo )))

Absolutely amazed its not already available in those countries.

Meanwhile, in Guatemala all central america and why not, ALL South America

Nintendo is like...... he? are there people living there with access to internet?

Still waiting for the day Nintendo will recognize Nigeria... X(

Last time i visited in Dubrovnik there wasn't that much physical 3DS games for sale and prices was pretty high so this is good news for people living in Croatia and other countries on this list. Eshop propably doesn't show prices in kunas (or any other local currencies) but that is not that big problem.

Weird that eastern Europe doesn't really have separate nintendo e shop services. What are the main places for Nintendo in Europe then? For NoA it's basically America, then Canada. And if there is a really special promo it's Mexico too but mainly the first two. I thought NoE was based in Germany. But then there's a lot of NintendoUK only promos as well.. which covers all of UK and not just great Britain right? Damn this is confusing lol

No Hungary... Maybe because we still don't have euro, but hungarian forint.

My wish is that Nintendo would finally update the maps in 3DS Streetpass and bring the Streetpass Maps app to Streetpass Plaza in all countries available.

It really sucks that most countries don't have maps available even though you have different regions available in countries. I would like to see for example which regions I have missing from Finland, Sweden etc.

@Krisi: Yes you can! Just go to your Wii U's settings -> set your country of residence. You'll have to create a secondary profile for it, but after you have downloaded the games from the eshop, you can play them on your primary account!

@supermario4ever The same applies to you. But the article also states that Hungary will be served, too (starting at December 10th).

It dissapoints me this is making it's appearance this late.
And still so many countries without s reasonable Nintendo service?

Japan gets it all - Which I can pretty much understand as Japan is where Nintendo is from, but still... Also regio lock... That's pity. I wish Nintendo will change with NX. Otherwise I think it would fail

Wow, didn't think I'd see Bulgaria on the list there. I'd have thunk Nintendo wouldn't bother, seeing how small the console market is here, and what little there is is mostly taken by Sony.
I'm happy though, now I'll finally be able to change my 3DS to my actual region, instead of pretending to be a Brit.

Wish Nintendo wasn't so bad in this department. I'm still hoping we get manga on the eshop like France has.

@belmont Yes, but the games may also be cheaper in some places. But amiibo are always more expensive than MSRP.

@Verg I speak German fairly well (I was living there in my first few years of my life), so I chose Germany.

@shani Sure, but I still won't be able to use that profile with my 3DS without erasing everything... Plus I'm pretty sure some of the game saves on my Wii U are bound to my account.

After reading some comments here, I had no idea there were other countries in South America besides Brazil without access to the Internet.
For the first time since the SEGA Genesis, I'm purchasing a non-Nintendo console (XOne due to Rare Replay), but I don't think I'd have gotten to the considering stage of the purchase if Ninty was doing good job with ALL its customers…

Unless they let people with existing NNID migrate these (why does NNID lock itself to a single country again?) it is a bit late. The fact it is € as well seems a little pointless as Nintendo has no IP locks and all Europe eShops (and South Africa) just pay NOE anyway sometimes in different currencies.

@belmont You are probably well aware that UK is currently (well past 5 years really) a really bad choice as a €10 game costs £9 (€12.79) outside of NES and SNES games which are at their 2006 Wii prices so a couple of cents cheaper than they would be in €. NOE insist this is fair.

@ricklongo

Meanwhile, in Latin America....

They'll have to hurry up to make the next systems digital only

I'm glad they're (hopefully) extending their reach. It could be in preparation for next gen. All those people that bought Nintendo consoles should be allowed to change their region.

But they don't let to change the country anyway. And I will not delete my current UK account because I already bought some games

@Krisi Wow, I'm Hungarian and changed it to Ireland too. The chances of that are pretty low.

@Bali Not really. Ireland makes the most sense, because they use euros (and the prices are actually cheaper than the UK's this way), but the eShop is still in English.

@shani Ah, yes, I misread that.

@Starwolf_UK I know. Must have paid around a 15 percent premium so far for being a “Brit“. Really hope they'll let people change their region if it it is to one of the new regions. It would be fair.

It's not so much about the money, but would love to pay Croatian tax.

In Poland we have got acces to eshop and local currency in it since 3ds have came to market(?)(but from 2012 at least). And digital games are always more expensive than physical. We have got oficial distributor (Conquest entertainment) from may(?) 2014 which finally do something.
@supermario4ever
What do you need euro for? In current situation in Europe.

Nintendo of Europe sure are moving things along for the PAL region countries, but what about those living the U.S.-based NTSC region countries?

Anyone tried to change country already? I'm from Croatia but I'm not sure what to do because I bought some games from UK store and still have some credits there. Would those credits convert to euros? And what about games?

@CroRock The eShop doesn't seem to be available in the countries in question, at least not yet. Either the news was fake after all, or the date was changed. I suppose only time will tell.
Anyway, even if they do open it eventually, your Nintendo Network ID is tied to the country you registered in originally, so you'll have to make a completely new account to use your region's eShop. Unless they give us some option to change the account region in the future.

@Verg
Eshop is not yet available (Slovakia). I wrote to a publisher and claimed that the date be changed due technical problems. He did not confirm the exact date

@paganSVK Well, that's good then, I guess we'll just have to wait. Now if only they allow us to switch regions once our eShops become available.

@Verg
Migrate option? I dont think so.
Actually i dont need to migrate because i own 3ds almost 2months without any eshop purchases.
I'm just sad that that we could not support the Eshop before Christmas or did not give us date.

So guys.
After last nintendo 3ds system update i was able to create nintendo id and eShop account in my country (slovakia).

So I registered a Bulgarian nnid and I'm actually regretting it. There are games missing from the 3ds eshop and I cant register a my nintendo account or pre register for miitomo... So yeah stick to some other country that has it all and isn't from the above newly added.