Colour Coded Triangular Tabs on Boxes

What's with the colour coded triangular tabs found on Wii and GC games, what do they signify, does anyone know?.

I've noticed that Skyward Sword has a purple one, as opposed to the regular green. Looking at my entire Wii & GC collection, only a few other games on Gamecube have used purple: Beyond Good and Evil, Ikaruga and Resident Evil 4.

Squidboy said:
What's with the colour coded triangular tabs found on Wii and GC games, what do they signify, does anyone know?.

I've noticed that Skyward Sword has a purple one, as opposed to the regular green. Looking at my entire Wii & GC collection, only a few other games on Gamecube have used purple: Beyond Good and Evil, Ikaruga and Resident Evil 4.

According to this guide, it's due to where the game is intended to be sold - apparently. Green = UK?

The box art of Nintendo games from PAL territories all have a little coloured triangle on the spines, but in each territory it's a different colour this is to show the region that copy of the game came from,

Some common ones are: Green = UK, Pink = Spain, Red = France, Light Blue = Italy, Dark Blue = German, Brown = Australia.

There are 49 different colours (This number is from the UK Nintendo The Official Magazine: Issue 21; 21st Oct. 07 )

As well as geographic region it is also to do with the language of the Box & booklets, though PAL region, as Nintendo games are made in Germany, the Triangles show the region that the game is shipped to.

All PAL games work on PAL consoles; but the DS isn't even region locked/PAL and it is cheaper to buy from Europe (and N. America, which lack the coloured triangles and also have a letter based rating system on the art instead of the usual Europian age system), so some shops here in the UK import the games and sell them for full price!

Different colours don't mean rarity or anything to do with if the game is for Girls/Children/etc, as is often stated (on Ebay as well as elsewhere).

I've gathered that purple = multiregion (in Europe anyway). I guess that's why the Skyward Sword and other purple games like Wii Fit have those chunky manuals with pretty much every language under the sun.

( Edited 26.11.2011 12:31 by jb )

Thanks for that, till now It's always been a mystery to me.

After looking at the boxes again, I suppose they may be a dull shade of pink, rather than a shade of purple. It's still odd that all of the pink one's I own seem intended for sale in the UK, on the evidence of the rating certificates and instructions inside.

I was always led to believe it's only to do with the language of the instructions contained in the booklet.

Yeah it's to do with the region of the game. The Skyward Sword bundle has a purple one because that same package is used all over Europe hence why it comes with a separate manule in multiple different languages whereas if you look at the standalone version of Skyward Sword without the gold remote it will most likely have a green triangle because it is the UK vesrion.

I only have two games on Wii with the light purple triangle on it : Madworld and No More Heroes 2. Another recent release on 3DS, Tales of the Abyss has only those two languages on the box.

The only thing that those seem to share is that the languages of the texts on the box are English and French (mixed).

The manual of Tales of the Abyss has like six languages in total in it, whereas Madworld and House of the Dead Overkill only had English and French, so it can't be related to the languages of the manual.

To me it is clear that it has only to do with the languages displayed on the piece of paper inside the game box (the boxart itself) and has nothing to do with the Instruction manual.

EDIT : Nevermind, after further checking, Tales of the Abyss is an exception, it's consistent accross all other games, it's both the language on the box AND in the Instruction manual (Also I had never noticed I had so many different coloured triangles in my collection haha).

There's even a triangle in the corner of the last page of every single instruction manual actually (not only the boxes), I only just noticed.

( Edited 26.11.2011 14:36 by Kafei2006 )

Yeah probably, I just looked at my copy of Xenoblade and it comes with 2 manules both them in 6 languages as well but the box has an orange triangle. XD