 Nintendo is cracking down in Europe they appear to be very sick of street dates being broken and specifically street dates seem to be being broken all over Europe it's not as big of an issue in the United States obviously we've seen occasional retailers sell a game like a day early but that's in Europe it's getting bad some people are able to get a whole of games sometimes a week or too early so Nintendo is deciding to crack down and attempt to fix this issue this report comes from games industry dot biz and it says European retailers will now be receiving Nintendo products closer to release date than before Nintendo confirmed to game industry biz so they're put there like Nintendo is saying this that it is consistently reviewing its shopping schedule to ensure release dates across Europe are not broken a broken street date is when stores start selling products early to get a head start over its competitors social media posts around the launch of Super Mario Odyssey did show that some consumers receive the game ahead of its official release date although primarily via online stores who send out products earlier to guarantee customers get their games on launch day a prime example of this would be Amazon in the United States at least I can only speak for the United States if you order a game on Amazon they typically will send it out a couple days early so you get it literally the day of launch anyways let's move on the decision to send products out closer to launch is a potential blow to smaller independent stores who order their stock through distribution with distributors now only getting stacked a few days before release the window to turn around products is now much tighter with some having to spend more on next-day delivery to ensure customers are not disappointed it's a bit of a worry said one prominent UK indie store Nintendo is doing so well at the moment and it's been a boost to us in what would have been a difficult year if I end up getting stock late then customers will just shop at the supermarket instead Nintendo has an open distribution system in the UK which means retailers can order products directly through them although a minimum order would apply or via a number of distributors by contrast in the UK PlayStation uses Sentry soft as an official distribution partner while Xbox utilizes exorcist obviously this just that that part just applies to the UK but in the whole of Europe Nintendo is essentially same look we typically send out these games to be housed in a warehouse a week or two before release but hey look a bunch of people are breaking street date we're tired of we're tired of seeing our games live streamed by fans before they show we're tired of taking actions against youtubers because of this retired against we're tired of all the negativity that surrounds our actions upon people that legally got versions of the game through no fault of their own they were at a store the store had it on the shelf so they bought it or they got it through an online retailer and the online retailers like hey look we got the product let's send it out a week ahead of time and so it hits on launch date but they might get it before then so Nintendo's like no not doing anymore we're done with that now we're going to make sure that the products land in your stores two to three days ahead of time and or at least land at the distributors and then from there it's up to you guys to get it out on shelves on time this obviously could hort hort hort some mom-and-pop shops that's where they were talking about with indie stores because they can't afford necessarily to do next day delivery on that stuff from distributors and you know while distributors can typically get the product there in two to three days if it takes three days that means when the store opens the day of release they might not have the game yet and they might not appear till later so it could definitely hurt some of the smaller mom-and-pop shops but you have to consider Nintendo's position on this the leaks that tend to happen when it comes to street dates being broken seem to almost exclusively happen in Europe in the United States it does happen once in a while you will see people who will like I noticed just this past week that Pete some people got doom a day before it was due to come out it arrived at their house before the 8 p.m. delivery date on like UPS from Amazon orders but I mean that's not that bad what we're not talking about like the day before a game comes out we're talking three four five a week before a game comes out some people are getting in Europe and that's the problem you know if a fan gets a whole of a game the day before it's due to come out it's really not that big of a deal that's the same day reviews are hitting and there's so much news flooding you know the airwaves that day for that particular game that you know it's easy to get lost in the crowd but yeah this does need to stop there was the biggest recent issue I can remember that dealt with this was the Super Mario Odyssey there was that YouTuber we did a video on this where Nintendo basically shut down a YouTuber and got them banned on YouTube for three months for streaming the whole of Mario Odyssey and they did this like I think it was four or five days before the game came out and I talked at the time what how this person maybe they obtained a legal copy because the game did leak online although there weren't any working emulators at the time to play it and as far as we're aware switches are not able to be modified as of yet to play those files if you put it on an SD card so I had wondered you know how were they playing this game illegally and it turns out based on further research and some confirmations back and forth with a few people that the person never was playing an illegal copy of the game what happened was they were at a retailer and they got it early now this person claimed that at the time as well and I questioned it because it was someone in China for those who don't know China doesn't sell switches yet and they definitely don't sell switch games hum so I thought it was odd but it turns out that this person just happened to be out of the country at the time and saw it at another store in Europe grabbed it and when they went back you know like the next day flying back to China they you know started streaming it so it's just Nintendo look bad in that situation right a little bad first you can say they looked good because oh my god they shut down this guy playing illegal copies but then when it turns out it's just a normal everyday fan who probably didn't know any better yet that that hurts Nintendo probably should have not gotten them shut down for three months you know you can see maybe a week or so maybe two weeks where Nintendo is just kind of sorting out the details of everything but once you realize what the situation was this action they're doing now is the appropriate action versus punishing the base consumer who really did nothing wrong but walk into a store and saw hey Super Mario Odyssey is on store shelf can I buy this again sweet hum so yeah it's it's just a weird twist of events and I gotta say I you know I would stand up here for the little mom and pop in the indie shops out there but for being honest it's probably the mom and pop indie shops that are leaking these games early in the first place I mean as this article notes there's apparently this big competition in Europe for consumers and one of the ways to get consumers is to release the games early and break street date and I mean you could argue that obviously the most obvious responses don't let those retailers get those games but it's so rampant and it's happening with so many games it's not just Nintendo it's happening with like all video games in Europe that Nintendo's like look instead of us you know trying to figure out which retailer it is every single time we're just gonna make it so it's not possible to do it at all for any retailer and if that means certain retailers end up not having the games day one so be it you kind of lost that privilege so I kind of applaud Nintendo on this one I feel like you know when games are being street broken a week ahead of time two weeks at times it's time to do something about it it's been a consistent issue in Europe I've been I've been following Nintendo stuff closely for years and years and years probably a couple decades now online and sure enough street dates just keep getting broken in Europe and as I said I'm not gonna act like it does not happen here in the United States or North America it just seems like when the street dates broken here it's either by accident through an online retailer or it's just the day before and that's not I'm not saying that that's okay but it's not as bad as what's been happening in Europe so the crackdown in Europe needed to occur do you guys let me know what you think about all of this in the comments below because I'm 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