Nintendo pulls out of Leipzig

by David Hinkle { May 23rd 2008 at 3:00PM }

European Nintendo fans eager to attend the biggest gaming show in all of Europe, take note. Nintendo has decided not to attend this year's show. Considering they had a great show last year, we honestly can't understand why Nintendo would back out. Their new focus will be to participate in "smaller, local events and national promotional tours."

Any of our European readers saddened by this news? Were you planning on attending the show in Germany this year?

[Via Nintendo Revolution]

Tags: convention, europe, gc, leipzig, leipzig-games-convention, show

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nushio (NDF - Blue) @ May 23rd 2008 4:08PM

Nintendo is in an unconfortable position.

They're making loads and loads of money off of "Casual" Gamers, and have entirely forgotten the people who got them there.

Obviously, no grandmas are gonna show up in that convention, which must've been one of the reasons that prompted Nintendo to opt out..

FantomRedux @ May 25th 2008 6:32PM

Couldn't have said it better myself. Still gotta wait a month for Brawl. Localisation my left testicle. It shouldn't be taking nearly 4 months to translate some menus and the short bits of info which come with the trophies. And how long is it gonna take for the "new" FF games to come out here? 2 years? We had to wait months for FF3.

They seem to think Wii Fit and MK Wii coming out here 2 weeks earlier makes up for everything �_�