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I completely disagree with this article. I don't think Elite Beat Agents would even exists if not for the Ouendan series getting so much attention globally. I guess this also could be said about Phoenix Wright that was released on japan with english translation already.
I can see the damage of region-free games discouraging publishers to bring games to a market specially on the europe / america since both use the same english translation. But be impossible to play games that I want when no one is gonna make a attempt to bring those games is really frustrating.
I can list a good amount of games that I would have bought if not for the impossibility of playing it without some sort of hack or import a new console and that is sad.

All the times I had a save erased it was by a wrong doing, power outrage or data corruption. I would much prefer to be unable to loss all that data.

The only ones that should be worried about this are the ones that buy used games. To be able to re-gain achievements and alike are just excuses. Go tell Microsoft or Sony that you want to erase your achievements and trophies!

And a boycott sounds ridiculous. Those that buy new aren't influenced by this and those that buy used already don't give a cent to the developers!

I guess Inafune was really the one making things running at capcom. Now that he's not there, there's no one to pull some tricks on those shareholders...

I never was a big fan of racing games simply because it never appealed to me to race just for the sake of being first place. Even with the story behind DKR being, as the reviewer said, rudimentary, it was enough to keep me retrying those harsh boss races over and over. That's why i find DKR a better game over MK64.

"We have some promising indie titles such as Bobby Carrot Forever, Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, Evasive Space, Icarian: Kindred Spirits and LostWinds 2, but we’re willing to bet that most WiiWare gamers would be willing to trade all of those titles for a true Mario, Zelda or Metroid game crafted by Nintendo."

I guess you answered the question with this part of the text. During the launch of the WiiWare there was a lot of talk about how this could help new ideas to come to life by small developers and such. But if Nintendo had made a ton of games to WiiWare, I'm pretty sure that most of those great games listed above wouldn't shine like it did.

This top 5 became much like of what I expected. Except for Art Style: Orbient that I thought it would be Bomberman Blast or Tetris Party in the list instead!

Wiiloveit:
What can I say? I didn't have heard of SB until the game announcement. And I have be thinking it was a TV show until Djungelurban pointed me out it is a Web show. Maybe it's not our kind of humor... I have yet to check it out.

TOP20 29.OCT - Brazil
01(01): World of Goo
02(04): Tetris Party
03(02): Bomberman Blast
04(03): Mega Man 9
05(05): My Aquarium
06(06): Art Style: CUBELLO
07(08): LostWinds
08(11): My Pokémon Ranch
09(20): The Incredible Maze
10(09): Art Style: ORBIENT
11(07): Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
12(14): Midnight Bowling
13(15): Defend your Castle
14(12): Wild West Guns
15(13): SPOGS Racing
16(10): Family Table Tennis
17(16): Midnight Pool
18(NN): Art Style: ROTOHEX
19(17): Gyrostarr
20(NN): Strong Bad Episode 3 - Baddest of the Bands

Strong Bad barely made into the top20 here! Dr. Mario Online Rx and Pirates: The key of Dreams gets kicked out of the top. It surprise me that Dr. Mario didn't hold up around here...

Brazilian Charts (from 23 Oct - couldn't connect yesterday)
01(02): World of Goo
02(01): Bomberman Blast
03(03): Mega Man 9
04(NN): Tetris Party
05(04): My Aquarium
06(15): Art Style: CUBELLO
07(08): Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My life as a King
08(09): LostWinds
09(05): Art Style: ORBIENT
10(11): Family Table Tennis
11(07): My Pokémon Ranch
12(06): Wild West Guns
13(10): SPOGS Racing
14(14): Midnight Bowling
15(13): Defend your Castle
16(12): Midnight Pool
17(--): Gyrostarr
18(16): Dr. Mario Online Rx
19(19): Pirates: The key of Dreams
20(NN): The Incredible Maze

Djungelurban:
My bad! I just assumed that it was a cartoon aired on TV and didn't even tried to look into. Maybe it just miss some talk around here to make it shine. Gonna have to look at it at some time.

Djungelurban :
Actually, I'm pretty surprised to see strong bad on the list. Thing is... this show is not aired around here, so... I'm pretty sure that people are buying it totally 'on the dark' or based on all those positive reviews.

Top20 from Brazil:
01(02): Bomberman Blast
02(01): Mega Man 9
03(03): My Aquarium
04(05): Art Style: ORBIENT
05(04): My Pokémon Ranch
06(07): Midnight Pool
07(06): LostWinds
08(09): Wild West Guns
09(12): Dr. Mario Online Rx
10(11): Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
11(10): Defend your Castle
12(13): SPOGS Racing
13(08): Family Table Tennis
14(--): V.I.P. Casino> Blackjack
15(14): Strong Bad Episode 1 Homestar Ruiner
16(15): Gyrostarr
17(17): Helix
18(20): Toki Tori
19(--): Cocoto Fishing Master
20(--): Midnight Bowling

For those who cares about sales around here =P
from Brazil
01: Mega Man 9
02: Bomberman Blast
03: My Aquarium
04: My Pokémon Ranch
05: Art Style: ORBIENT
06: LostWinds
07: Midnight Pool
08: Family Table Tennis
09: Wild West Guns
10: Defend your Castle
11: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
12: Dr. Mario Online Rx
13: SPOGS Racing
14: Strong Bad Episode 1 Homestar Ruiner
15: Gyrostarr
16: Strong Bad Episode 2 Strong Badia the Free
17: Helix
18: TV Show King
19: Groovin' Blocks
20: Toki Tori