Will release after the spring because of localisation work.
In the 1UP Yours podcast, 1UP/EGM's Shane Bettenhausen revealed that Super Smash Bros. Brawl was to be released across Europe in the autumn, indicating that the release date came directly from Nintendo of America president and COO, Reggie Fils-Aime.
It now turns out that this wasn't entirely accurate. Bettenhausen offered the following clarification on his 1UP blog.
Advertisement"I implied that the European release of Super Smash Bros. Melee had been moved to the fall of 2008...that's not quite accurate, as neither NOE nor Reggie has announced any official release date at this time," explained Bettenhausen. "Reggie did tell me (and the other media present) that the release had been pushed out of the winter/spring time frame due to the amount of localization required to get the game up and running all the various European languages. But Reggie did not say WHEN Europeans will get Smash Bros., just that it would be at a later date than the U.S."
European Nintendo fans still don't know when they'll be playing SSBB, but we do know that Mario Kart Wii will be released on April 11, followed by Wii Fit on April 25. Previous release schedules have suggested we won't see SSBB until after the second quarter of 2008.
Jon wrote at 17:51 on 05 March 2008
Melee? so.... when we gettin brawl? 2012? LOL
Vincent wrote at 07:26 on 14 March 2008
WHAT?! Your kidding me?! How could it take a half year to just change the stupid languages?!! Dammit ! Right now I'm really pissed! If anybody who worked for nintendo was right here next to me... I would break he's neck!!
Hazard2Nature wrote at 20:46 on 16 March 2008
Agreed with all the violent comments, oui?
Here in Portugal, (most) kids and teens don't even like (or know what is) Nintendo 'cause they treat us like *insert "S" word here* and don't advertise or have ANY EVENTS!!
Honestly, we're probably not even getting the game with all the delay...
And if we have the game somehow they should let us make our own characters, moves, and Final Smashes. And the graphs should be 100 times better. But as screwed as we get. We'll probably not get the Subspace Emissary or only the 12 original SSB characters and only the original stages OR N64/NES-like graphs (ok, that's exaggerating, but who knows?)
Nintendo is makin' this due to stock and loving to torture us.
End of rant.
By: Hazard 2 Nature otherwise known as
UnkNown
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