Hey, do you remember how Europe’s trade-off for having to wait a possible six months for Super Smash Bros. Brawl was the fact that we’d be getting Mario Kart Wii early? Well, think again, because despite the fact that Brawl is way more anticipated than Mario Kart (as confirmed by Reggie himself), it’s been revealed that Europe only gets the game sixteen days ahead of America. This of course means that in just over two weeks, America will have both games, and the PAL territories will still be stuck waiting for a still unannounced Brawl release.

I’d like to know exactly what Nintendo’s problem is, but then again, I guess it’s not worth begrudging my American friends a game with “let’s race!” speech bubbles in place of actual online voice chat and a stupid plastic wheel in place of something interesting. Oh wait, sorry, I forgot that the prevailing attitude is to be grateful every time Nintendo so much as looks in your general direction.

Right, sorry, just had to have a little moment there. It’s not that I’m bitter or anything over the way Nintendo likes to take a huge steaming dump over its European market every other week. It’s not that I’m bloody sick of it on principle alone. What’s that thing writers have? Oh yeah, professional integrity, I have a job to do — Mario Kart Wii is released in America on April 27 and the full press release is after the jump, we are all super excited.

There. Job done.

source Destructoid

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