"The fact is that some of that content hadn't even been released in Europe yet," Baker said at the time.
Damon Baker, who handles marketing for third-party developers and publishers at Nintendo of America, told Polygon in June that the Nindie bundle was region-locked in order to protect the developers. The organization's previous collaboration with Nintendo, the Humble Nindie Bundle - named after Nintendo's moniker for the indie developers it works with - was available exclusively in North America because only Nintendo of America was involved in the process. "With Nintendo's help, we've aimed to craft a bundle that will have the widest appeal possible," said John Graham, co-founder and chief operating officer of Humble Bundle, in an email interview. Nintendo gets a Humble Bundle and it's all indies