Thread: European, Australian Black and White release confirmed: First main series game releas

European, Australian Black and White release confirmed: First main series game released in ...

The United Kingdom release date of Pokémon Black and White has been confirmed as the previously rumored release date of March 4, 2011. This date is two days before the US release, making it the first main series game to be released in Europe before the United States. The official Australian website has also revealed that the Australian and New Zealand release will be on March 10, 2011.

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This is so exciting!! Very surprised Europe's getting them first.

Can't believe how close that date is, I'm counting down the days :D

I can't wait for the release, I'll definitely be getting it as soon as it hits the shelves.

I'm made up, less than a week before my birthday I know what my fiancée is getting me

Its really exciting that almost everyone gets it in the same week.

Oh my god less than two months this is so exciting!
I don't really understand why they have different release dates for different regions though, does anyone know? Surely they could just have a worldwide release date could they not. Not that I really mind waiting a few more days or anything I'm just curious.

ow yeah just to to months to go aw yeah

Looks like you European guys are getting the DSi bundle as well:
http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=147436

Anyways, I love how it's launching internationally now basically (besides Japan, of course.)

This has me very confused... Usually the excuse for Europe to get the games later is because of the multilanguage translations, since America usually only gets the English version (despite Spanish being America's most spoken language, or at least as spoken as English).

So, the games being released first in Europe means that there WILL be multilanguage versions of the games by the time they are released in America. Does this mean finally Latin America will get a Spanish language Pokémon game? I don't know. I visited the LA website and it's all screwed up: some screenshots are in Spanish and some are in English, it gives some English names (Unova region and Prof. Juniper) and some Spanish names (Bianca and Makomo's Spanish name, which I don't remember at the moment). So what bugs my mind with this announcement is not the release date, but the language I'm getting. I understand English very well, but for the sake of identity, a Spanish version wouldn't hurt me.

Anyways, congrats to all Europeans for this groundbreaking event! You deserve it :D

I just hope that this will be an ongoing trend ;)

I hope this aint gonna be a on goin' trend for TPCi n Nintendo too bad Pokemon games have to be released Sundays n America.