Latest Wii U Update Adds R18+ Parental Controls, Will Ninja Gaiden 3 Finally Be Released?
The lack of a release of Ninja Gaiden 3 : Razor’s Edge on the Wii U in Australia has been a bit of joke amongst the local Nintendo community. The game has taken so long to get released in Australia that we had kind of given up hope on ever seeing the game.
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge was the first game in Australia to be rated R18+ but since then at least 10 other games have been classified R18+ and about half of them have actually been released.
Not only that, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 was announced and released in the time between the Wii U launch and now. There has also been a Ninja Gaiden game released on the PS Vita which was also R18+.
We seriously had no idea why Nintendo Australia weren’t releasing the game, many theories (some of them pretty crazy) were thrown around but only one really made any sort of sense.
The Australian Wii U didn’t support R18+ rated in its parental controls, up until today that is. For such a violent game not to be able to be parental locked could have been a disaster for Nintendo, could have.
However with the 3.0 update of the Wii U today, R18+ games can now be controlled under the Wii U parental controls. This should pave the way for the game to now be released in Australia.
Right?
Thanks to HarmoKnight on Twitter for the Tip.
I reckon so. Otherwise, I doubt this game will actually turn up.
I honestly assumed the game had been cancelled entirely on the Wii U, given that no local sites that deal in video games list the Wii U version in their catalogues. No sign of it on EB Games, Gametraders or even Big W.
I think that implementing the R18+ classification into the system’s firmware was the reason for the delay. Plus, our version of Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge will probably require a wee bit of tweaking so that Aussie gamers will need to perform a mandatory update in order to ensure that the R18+ parental lock is available from the get-go (and the system update may be included as a mandatory addition on the Australian version of the disc).
Given how many of the gamers who wanted this have now either imported it from the UK, or bought it on other consoles, it mystifies me how they couldn’t have pushed that minor update out rapidly so as to race the game to sale. *sigh*
It’s a shame that the port for this game on the 360 and PS3 were released before the original Wii U game in Australia, especially after what happened with Rayman needing to be postponed because of Microsoft.