A lot of Nintendo fans online seem to enjoy complaining about NoA (Nintendo of America) being slow to do everything and generally worse all around compared to NoJ and NoE (Nintendo of Japan and Europe respectively). And I'm just sitting here in Europe, hoping NoE will put Xenoblade Chronicles X up for pre-buying and downloading before it's release date, which NoA did the best part of a month ago (along with free DLC data packs to speed up play if you're using the disk version, which NoE have just now put up today). And this of course after announcing the release date for the game about 2 1/2 months later than NoA did - despite the game ending up with the same release date. NoJ also made like NoA, although the game came out 8 months ago there (but data packs and pre-buy were also up a month before release, give or take).
It's not just XBX though - you also have a lot of games which tend to come out weeks or even months later in Europe than America, and it's been that way for decades. It's been a lot better recently, with us even getting a decent number of games a few weeks ahead of America (e.g. I think we got Yoshi's Wolly World slightly earlier), but we're still usually on the back foot, both for news of dates and release times.
And the quality of news tends to be really bad as well. Just check out this guy's impressive confident body language and ability to pronounce the name of one of Nintendo's biggest franchies. Yeah.This is a game I'm super hyped to get, which is a pretty hefty download at 23GB, so I'd really like to get it downloaded in advance and not have to hope it can download and install in one night and work day before I get home. But NoE is going to do this to me by the looks of things. Sigh.