Is it politically-motivated or an economic and technical thing?
Picollini
Good
TamusSenHadar
Does that mean an off-brand Russian Mario is coming, like they did with McDonald’s?
xenon2456
so people would have to resort to using foreign e shops
Panchoripan
Look at what you did, mister Putin.
bodyisnumb
Maybe now i can have Ukrainian region……?
Know_to
Very good 👍
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TheDarkWeb697
Unless Putin has a Nintendo switch, this effectively does nothing
gryphonbones
Don’t think we’ll be seeing Mario at the Sochi Olympics any time soon. Good.
Special-Operation921
Good
OkamiTakahashi
Given everything going on this is no surprise.
Wasn’t there also a thing about Nintendo of Russia being horrible to employees sone time ago?
dbernard456
Aggressor countries deserve no such entertaiments.
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Cyber_Swag
it was shut down last year right after war began
butterbean93
Putin: 🏳
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ColorGreeeen
Mmmmm, kefir is such a tasty thing, if you know – you know 😉
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KenTheRetardOne
Pirate’s: Business is booming.
Chicho_Procer
Nyetendo
DSMidna
No Metroid Prime 4 for Putin until he learns his lesson.
Sillhid
Hello, I’m russian and the situation is as follows.
After Visa and Mastercard left Russia, the Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft stores were put on hold.
This is not related to politics – the reasons are purely technical because it was not possible to pay for games without a card.
Nintendo waited for a year and then announced that it was suspending its store in Russia indefinitely, but users can still download the games they purchased.
As for how this has affected people, personally I (and my wife) simply changed the region in the store settings.
Now we are “in America” and pay for games with gift cards, which can be easily (and without much markup) purchased in the “Russian” part of the internet.
Something similar is happening with Sony.
And a bit about politics: Russian politicians hate games. They still use them as a bogeyman to scare people, saying that they make children cruel, promote homosexuality, etc.
The console situation is not covered on television, except in a positive light.
The only ones who suffered were the younger generation who actively communicate on the internet, know English, and were not initially on the side of the Special Military Operation.
But, as I said, the reasons here are purely technical.
Anielek
Good news!
HauntedVortex
Welp time to jailbreak and cfw
JANTR1X
Russian War aside this is pretty scary, thats why you should by physical or even roms haha
Superpan21
See what happens when you invade Ukraine? This is one of the many sanctions that have been issued to Russia.
ChippersNDippers
To bring back a really tired phrase, ‘In Mother Russia, eShops you’.
ponkipo
I’m a Russian, and I’m not sure what would it change because if you have a foreign card (can be opened in several countries, but you gotta do it) you can just change the region in the store and everything is the same. Moved to Polish shop in previous year, bought TotK just fine.
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Is it politically-motivated or an economic and technical thing?
Good
Does that mean an off-brand Russian Mario is coming, like they did with McDonald’s?
so people would have to resort to using foreign e shops
Look at what you did, mister Putin.
Maybe now i can have Ukrainian region……?
Very good 👍
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Unless Putin has a Nintendo switch, this effectively does nothing
Don’t think we’ll be seeing Mario at the Sochi Olympics any time soon. Good.
Good
Given everything going on this is no surprise.
Wasn’t there also a thing about Nintendo of Russia being horrible to employees sone time ago?
Aggressor countries deserve no such entertaiments.
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it was shut down last year right after war began
Putin: 🏳
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Mmmmm, kefir is such a tasty thing, if you know – you know 😉
[removed]
Pirate’s: Business is booming.
Nyetendo
No Metroid Prime 4 for Putin until he learns his lesson.
Hello, I’m russian and the situation is as follows.
After Visa and Mastercard left Russia, the Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft stores were put on hold.
This is not related to politics – the reasons are purely technical because it was not possible to pay for games without a card.
Nintendo waited for a year and then announced that it was suspending its store in Russia indefinitely, but users can still download the games they purchased.
As for how this has affected people, personally I (and my wife) simply changed the region in the store settings.
Now we are “in America” and pay for games with gift cards, which can be easily (and without much markup) purchased in the “Russian” part of the internet.
Something similar is happening with Sony.
And a bit about politics: Russian politicians hate games. They still use them as a bogeyman to scare people, saying that they make children cruel, promote homosexuality, etc.
The console situation is not covered on television, except in a positive light.
The only ones who suffered were the younger generation who actively communicate on the internet, know English, and were not initially on the side of the Special Military Operation.
But, as I said, the reasons here are purely technical.
Good news!
Welp time to jailbreak and cfw
Russian War aside this is pretty scary, thats why you should by physical or even roms haha
See what happens when you invade Ukraine? This is one of the many sanctions that have been issued to Russia.
To bring back a really tired phrase, ‘In Mother Russia, eShops you’.
I’m a Russian, and I’m not sure what would it change because if you have a foreign card (can be opened in several countries, but you gotta do it) you can just change the region in the store and everything is the same. Moved to Polish shop in previous year, bought TotK just fine.