As I am from the UK, and therefore a European in this context, I feel greatly let down by Gamefreak, as I'm sure others are too. If Gamefreak and Nintendo wanted to stop another leak, I doubt they would push the game back a week for the European market due to certain businesses (they were Spanish and Italian for X and Y last time I checked)going ahead and giving it out early. The Spanish had a national holiday, so it was obviously going to be distributed earlier rather than later when compared to the planned release date, and I'm sure the Italian ordeal was solely a sole trader going against the curb - which would also help them gain more money from an earlier than planned release. It was planned to come out on a Saturday, so obviously Amazon was going to deliver it on the Thursday and Friday before the planned release date. I'm sure if it were such a big deal for them, GF and Nintendo would have had investigations carried out and would suspend supplies to this businesses in particular. Again, I doubt that a whole continent will get punished for what was a national holiday and a good piece of business on the behalf of the Italian business. At the end of the day, it's about money, and it's most likely a commercial plan from the dogs up top to generate more and more money. Also, I've head it could be down to localisation, but I highly doubt that they would leave it so late, and in fact I'm positive the games are either completed or going through localisation processes right now. Let's not forget how far ahead the big dogs are, guys.
