Land of the long white Wiimote no longer
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Well ok, there never was a Nintendo New Zealand technically – instead, there is a company that distributes their product locally under licence. Or rather, was a company. See, it turns out Softprint Interactive who used to do this (and Activision and also Logitech and a whole raft of other brand names) has gone under, with no replacements yet in sight. Which means no Wii Fit and no Super Smash Bros Brawl in New Zealand for the foreseeable future.
Most people would consider this bad news, but then, I’ve never really been a big fan of Nintendo. So much so that I’m currently doing the Sony fangirl jig of delight.
This isn’t the first time Nintendo distribution has failed epically in New Zealand, of course. The previous distributor Monaco threw in the towel right before the release of the Wii, which I think left things up in the air for us a bit back then (hey, I didn’t really want a Wii so I wasn’t following the news too carefully). And even when distribution has been functional, Nintendo consoles and handhelds haven’t been hugely popular – the DS was being beaten by the PSP fairly regularly even back when the rest of the world had written the PSP off, the N64 did poorly and so on and so forth back through all the generations. So really, it’s just another chapter in a book of failure.
Anyway, recommence jig of schadenfreude!