6th December 2006, 7:31 PM
This could be solved with future updates. Further, HDTV is standardized but Wii doesn't really support those higher resomalutions.
Ryan, keep in mind that the people having this problem aren't the ones that picked the bad standard. Someone else did. Keep in mind that when these standards were being set up, countries were a lot more isolated from each other than today. A broadcast in Europe wasn't going to see the light of day in America. It didn't matter, and the PAL standard does have advantages, like higher vertical resolution, so they had a differing opinion at the time. It only comes to bite now that everyone is far more connected. "Serves them right" isn't the right attitude, especially for a company that's trying to convince them to buy old games all over again. The idea is to woo them, and if they need to put some extra work into fixing compatibility, then that's that. Europeans shouldn't be told "buy it anyway". It's their choice, and it's Nintendo that's going to suffer if no one tolerates it, so yes, Nintendo does have something it may need to fix.
That said, screw Europe. They're all the way over there, and there be dragons there.
And that region locking thing? I hate that. We've talked about that to death, but again, listen up MS, Sony, Nintendo. All 3 of you need to stop this nonsense and just let us access every single thing in your store. Warn us that the games aren't in our language or weren't "culturally optimized" or whatever, but just let us access them. We'll pay you monies!
Ryan, keep in mind that the people having this problem aren't the ones that picked the bad standard. Someone else did. Keep in mind that when these standards were being set up, countries were a lot more isolated from each other than today. A broadcast in Europe wasn't going to see the light of day in America. It didn't matter, and the PAL standard does have advantages, like higher vertical resolution, so they had a differing opinion at the time. It only comes to bite now that everyone is far more connected. "Serves them right" isn't the right attitude, especially for a company that's trying to convince them to buy old games all over again. The idea is to woo them, and if they need to put some extra work into fixing compatibility, then that's that. Europeans shouldn't be told "buy it anyway". It's their choice, and it's Nintendo that's going to suffer if no one tolerates it, so yes, Nintendo does have something it may need to fix.
That said, screw Europe. They're all the way over there, and there be dragons there.
And that region locking thing? I hate that. We've talked about that to death, but again, listen up MS, Sony, Nintendo. All 3 of you need to stop this nonsense and just let us access every single thing in your store. Warn us that the games aren't in our language or weren't "culturally optimized" or whatever, but just let us access them. We'll pay you monies!
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