About the Nintendo Puzzle Collection...

[Immutable]

I've played the Nintendo Puzzle Collection recently, and I wonder... why hasn't Nintendo released this in the states yet? I mean it has Dr. Mario, Panel de Pon, and Yoshi Cookie all in glorious multiplayer modes. Plus, you can upload them onto the GBA. I know puzzle games aren't as popular as the fighters or the shoot'em ups, but surely there is a market for it here. :/

[sharp]

I think it was a right decission from Nintendo not to release the Puzzle Collection in the west. The collection doesn't deliver enough games to get decent sales numbers. Sadly the market for puzzle-games is now limited to handhelds mainly. Maybe if Nintendo added a few other puzzle-games (Maybe Yoshi, Mario's Super Picross and the Kirby Puyo Puyo) it would be worth a release, but don't think that will happen.

Sad but true.

[Windy Miller]

Bit late to this thread, but I'm tempted to pick this one up. Is is quite playable, in as much as are the menus quite easy to navigate?

It's a shame that there aren't more puzzle games coming out for the current generation of consoles. At least we've got the GBA, DS & PSP I suppose.

[ubersaurus]

The menus are in japanese, but gamefaqs has a good translation, and in all honesty the options are all pretty clear when they bring up a little picture with em.

[Windy Miller]

Thanks for that. :)

[hydr0x]

afaik this one is still scheduled for a late 2005 release in Europe, i have no idea why they would wait so long and then release it, but it's on some release lists