Hello Harrison,

Sorry for disappearing on you again.

Regarding this topic

>The answer to that is to prevent importing. Countries and marketing both dislike the activity of importing products by purchasing them outside and having them posted in. It means each import sale is lost income to that country. For this reason games normally don't get released in an English version until all of the other EU country localisation has been completed, to try and stop importing from taking place and therefore ensure sales are made in each country.


Heh, not very typical of me but in this case I say "Screw Them".
As a 'hard core' gamer I find it rather frustrating that I have to wait like the casual gamers for a title such as these because of Region Locking.

Handheld consoles such as the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP are region free but people still mostly buy the local edition of games, the more 'serious' gamers which are in a smaller number import games because they don't like to wait or because the game is not officially brought out in the said country.
Why couldn't this apply for the 'big' consoles like the Nintendo Wii as well?


Regarding the Halo thing, I hadn't thought about that explanation but still.

Well Halo 3 is still quite big so I wouldn't be surprised that it might still convince people to buy a XBOX360.

Its a bit difficult to compare PC releases with Console releases, another reason why Halo 2 also probably did so bad is because it was made so that it would only run under Vista.