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We all knew it was going to happen, but let’s talk it over anyway. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (known as Super Smash Bros. X in Japan) has debuted in the Japanese console software charts at number 1. But that’s not all. It’s old more than all 9 other entries in the top 10 combined. It’s estimated that a mammoth 95% of the stock shipped out was bought within a week.

Me = not shocked. Not even a little bit. Super Smash Bros. Brawl has had the Wii owning gaming community salivating over this game ever since Nintendo released the surprise trailer for it at 2006’s e3. Plus, Super Smash Bros. Melee was and still is the GameCube’s biggest selling title to date. To say the series now has a huge following and fan base would be a serious understatement. Check out the charts below to see all of the games that Brawl went and owned like bitches.

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The majority of DD editors and readers probably won’t care about this. But seeing as I’m a poor soul who hails from the UK, I have to bring this to attention. Super Smash Bros. Brawl has had its European release date pushed pack to quarter 3 of 2008, meaning it will not release until some time after June. The same also goes for Australia. This is some bullshit. Plain and simple. Nintendo just final smashed all of its European fans right in the face.

Us European gamers are no strangers to this: waiting 6+ months for a game to get released after its North American debut, but it still stings and still pisses us off. I really cannot understand why there’s a 6 month gap. And I’m not buying any crap about localization. It doesn’t take 6 months to localize from the North American code of the game. It’s not Twilight princess, so it’s not like there’s shit load of text to work through. Plus, Nintendo could’ve been decent and did what they did with the Wii itself and also Super Mario Galaxy - which is to release within all regions within the space of a month.

After 15 years you would’ve thought attitudes at Nintendo and other Japanese development studios would’ve changed regarding the European (and let’s not forget Australian) releases of games, but nope. It’s the same old shit. Europe had to wait 6+ months for Kingdom Hearts II, 6 months for Trauma center: Second opinion (a game that Australia are still waiting for) and now 6 months for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It’s official that Japanese developers do this for fun. I’m almost certain that Masahiro Sakurai is sat in his local Izakaya right now with Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata, pissing themselves laughing, drunkenly yelling the words “Europe”, “They”, “Bakayaro” and “Bitches”.