Nintendo, You Crock of Shit!

Ξ December 5th, 2005 | → | ∇ |

So, not only do Nintendo not sell Japanese games (of which there are literally HUNDREDS more compared to EU releases), in the EU and allow you to play JP games on an EU machine without a freeloader disk or mod-chip, which I can live with and understand because of the language difference, but it’s unsupported outside Japan. I mean, for crying out loud, I just want to load save games from the internet onto it, yet, it wont let me. EDIT: I have just found out you can’t use it for save games. It’s only compatible with some games like Animal Crossing where you can take pictures, despite the fact that the Memory slot is merely a slightly modified SD slot anyway.
Nintendo UK/IRE (who are ONLY reachable through a premium rate 0870 number as the “community” has also been disabled on Nintendo’s site; because that would be free help) tell me that they can’t help me because the SD Memory adapter isn’t avaliable in the EU and works with JP games, where it was originally manufactured. What the hell is the point in that?? It serves no purpose than just pissing off people in the EU who seek out this equipment, despite Nintendo telling me, “there’s no EU market”. It’s like not allowing a video cable you bought abroad to work on a EU TV or something. Even if there’s no market, the fact that users should be entitled to the choice should be enough to leave it open. Sure, don’t provide support, but also don’t deliberately hinder us. Nintendo are still getting money for it at the end of the day, even if it was from the other side of the world. Just because there’s no obvious market doesn’t mean there’s noone in the EU that might want one.

Thanks for nothing, Nintendo. Please don’t end up like Sony.