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This is brilliant. I wonder if we could get a Smash Brothers-type game with playable fighters including Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Brontë, and Lucy Maud Montgomery. DLC fighters could include Kate Bush and Kate Gray (just 'cause).

... Is NL endorsing a US presidential candidate?

@ritouf Right-o, but Sega is a multinational actively engaged in trying to expand their mindshare, and with a history of success in the Western Hemisphere. But, you know, it's their dime, they can do what they want. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, ritouf.

@Ryu_Niiyama I more or less agree with you. I mean, Sega has released a number of Yakuza games now without English dubbing, and we stupid, xenophobic Westerners eat them up, so I'm not sure why folk are playing this game of exclusivity. As for your nationality... I'm always down to discuss astrophysics

@ritouf LOL What are you talking about? Seriously, please clarify.

To all those defending Sega by saying "Why should Japanese care what outsiders think??":

If any developer outside Japan - including evil Westerners - should release a product which disregards a large portion of the planet, I fully expect that you will refrain from commenting about that narrow-minded, chauvinistic, supremacist et cetera et cetera...

we are not the target audience and they absolutely don't care what the rest of the world thinks.

@ritouf Logical fallacy: large corporation need not be concerned with customer opinions! But you, NL reader, should be concerned with ritouf's opinion!

solely for those games to add to my MegaTen collection

@TheFrenchiestFry Please, don't encourage them. You know how hard it can be to get SMT stuff even now, let alone teases like this.

... sighing but who am I to tell you what to buy?...

I am very interested to see how many positive comments there will be in this thread after reading requests for such a product over the last few years...

Depending on the product quality and software line-up, I am a potential customer.

@Anguspuss There are EU countries where this is illegal? Perhaps you mean EEA countries? You have me wondering.

... Ukraine? Moldova?

@Seananigans @Link41x

https://youtu.be/OakjHpisKyg?t=184

@Seananigans I'm not going to resort to the revolting, corporate shill-type tactics you're using here, let alone personal attacks. I will say the following:

• Fair use is a very well-entrenched legal provision in a number of jurisdictions.
• When I purchased my GameCube (new, complete in box, from retail, all those years ago), I do not recall reading any legal notice in the manual saying that my right to play the games on the discs I purchased expired at any point - let alone the point of hardware failure. Nor was there any language militating against my right to preserve my purchases.
• Corporate shills would have us ignore the fact that legitimate copyright is FINITE - else, it is meaningless.
• Hindering legitimate customers like me from preserving my ability to play the games I purchased does not "respect people's art". I've already paid in - and not as a retro collector, but a contemporaneous customer of newly-released titles when the GCN was not fashionable - and I continue to enjoy that art. It is in fact profoundly disrespectful to wade in here with false legalistic hand-waving and smokescreens when we are discussing the preservation of our original purchases.
• Finally, your "arguments" (Web links) are not the last word in any dispute - the courts, and ultimately public practice, are. Any corporation can make any claims it likes in a EULA or a (LoL) Web document. You might want to read about the ius, the Roman customary law, and how it has come to inform legal systems around the world.

Preservation of popular culture for posterity is one of the highest tributes that "people's art" can receive. I think @damo has every right to delete your rude "journalist" comment, but I think that he and the forum have answered you pretty satisfyingly.

@Link41x First day on the Internet, I take it?